90892 - Data Analysis For The Social Sciences (Lab)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Moduli: Marco Albertini (Modulo A) Marco Albertini (Modulo B)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo A) Traditional lectures (Modulo B)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Politics Administration and Organization (cod. 9085)

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing a practical experience of micro-data analysis using the statistical package Stata. The attendance of the course on Data Analysis for the Social Sciences is required, as well as the knowledge of basic elements of methodology and statistics for the social sciences. By the end of the course students will be able to perform basic Stata programming to: import and manage data and variables, implement descriptive statistical analyses and basic multivariate analyses.  

Course contents

The course aims at introducing the basic elements of Stata programming: opening and saving files; importing data; managing variables; performing basic descriptives statistical analysis; performing multivariate analyses and preparing the output of the analyses. 

Readings/Bibliography

A list of suggested readings will be made available at the beginning of the course

Teaching methods

Practical exercises in LAB with Stata

Office hours

See the website of Marco Albertini