ECO4027S - The Analysis of Survey Data

Course Information

This course will be jointly offered to both economics and statistics honours students. This course examines a range of statistical techniques for modelling survey data and presents methods to compensate for design features for complex sample survey data. These techniques are then applied to a selection of policy issues through the analysis of South Africa household surveys. Under the direction of the instructors, each student will produce a term paper using survey data as one of a major requirements of the course.

Section 1: Analysis of complex sample surveys
Section 2: Social policy issues and the analysis of household survey data