Analysis of Demographic and Socio-Economic trends in South Caucasus by using STATA and Caucasus Barometer data

Dates: 07/10/2013 - 11/10/2013 / 12:00 AM

Location: Alex Manukyan 1, YSU library building, 6th floor, room 602

Category: Methodological trainings

Training on

“Analysis of Demographic
and Socio-Economic trends in South Caucasus by using STATA and Caucasus Barometer data”

to be delivered by
Armen Asatryan (PhD in Economics, Texas A&M University)

Date:	October 7 to 11, 2013
Time:	14:00 – 17:00
Location:	CRRC-Armenia, 52 Abovyan St., YSU 6th building, 3rd floor, room 305
Language:	Armenian, with English materials and slides

Course description: The course will provide an introduction to quantitative data analysis using the statistical package Stata. Data from the Caucasus Barometer Surveys of CRRC will be used. The course is designed for students. Participants will be required to select a project on the first day and work on it over the 5-day training. Participants who will attend and successfully complete the required exercises and the entire project will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the course.

Course outline: The course is scheduled for the period of October 7–11, 2013, from 2:00-5:00pm, with a coffee break in the middle.

Day	Session 1	Session 2
October 7, 2013, Monday	Review of survey data concepts	Introduction to Stata
October 8, 2013, Tuesday	Exploring data files	Storing commands and output
October 9, 2013, Wednesday	Creating new variables and adding labels	Making tables to describe data
October 10, 2013, Thursday	Modifying data files	Examining associations among variables
October 11, 2013, Friday	Presenting data with graphs	Regression analysis

About the trainer: Mr. Asatryan holds a Ph.D. in Data Mining from
Texas University (USA), and an MBA from American University of Armenia. He
currently works as a Director of the Masters program within Agribusiness
Teaching Center at the International Center for Agribusiness Research and
Education in Yerevan. Prior to joining this post, Dr. Asatryan worked with
USAID funded DAI program, Armenian
Technology Group Inc., Texas A&M (USA), USDA
Marketing Assistance Project in Armenia, etc. He has also a long track record
with CRRC-Armenia. Mr. Asatryan has conducted training for the research
community members on data analysis; served as Data analyst expert for the
Caucasus Barometer 2006 and 2011. In 2007 he used to be one out of seven
CRRC-Armenia fellows.

Registration: Please
fill in the online
application form and press “submit”. Only
shortlisted applicants will be notified for participation.

Deadline for applications: October
1, 2013, 16:00.