Course Details
Making Recommendations with Official Statistics
3 Dec 2013
Professional Development
Administration
Victoria University Professional and Executive Development
Level 2, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington City
Two Days
9:00am - 4.30pm
9:00am - 4.30pm
$895.00
Early Bird Discount available until 28 days prior to the course start date $805.50 excl GST
Early Bird Discount available until 28 days prior to the course start date $805.50 excl GST
This workshop will discuss what you need to know about using statistical information in making recommendations. From the data sources you use or designing your own data collections, through to evaluating reports based on statistical information and using them to make management, organisational or government policy recommendations in a public sector context.
This course can be attended as a stand-alone workshop or as part of the National Certificate of Official Statistics relating to the Unit standard 23269 Evaluate and use statistical information to make recommendations in a public sector context.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is designed for people employed in the Public Sector in positions where they are required to interpret statistical data to make and/or report decisions.
Learning Objectives:
* Assess and select relevant data sources to answer a specific public sector policy question Design and describe a data collection that can be used to answer a specific public sector policy question
* Evaluate reports based on statistical information to answer a specific public sector policy question
* Use results from reports based on statistical information to make recommendations for a specific public sector policy question.
Course Outline:
1. Assessing and selecting data sources
* Sources of data
e.g. existing collections, administrative datasets, new surveys, censuses, experiments, results of data integration projects;
* Properties of data
e.g. origins, quality, contents, classification systems, non-response, editing and imputation, data quality, other strengths and limitations
2. Designing and describing a data collection
* Requirements of data collection design
* Target and survey populations
* Sample design
* Collection mode
* Information collected
* Limitations
* Statistical outputs
3. Evaluating reports based on statistical information
* 'Fitness for purpose' of the statistical information source
* 'Fitness for purpose' of the analysis, reliability, validity of conclusions and the clarity of content
4. Using the results from reports to make recommendations
* Forming a response to a question based on a report
* Making decisions and/or recommendations
Course Format:
This is an interactive two-day workshop. It forms part of the National Certificate in Official Statistics but can also attended as a stand-alone workshop.
Schedule:
Thursday, 17 November 2011 9:00am - 5:00pm Workshop
Friday, 18 November 2011 9:00am - 5:00pm Workshop
This course can be attended as a stand-alone workshop or as part of the National Certificate of Official Statistics relating to the Unit standard 23269 Evaluate and use statistical information to make recommendations in a public sector context.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is designed for people employed in the Public Sector in positions where they are required to interpret statistical data to make and/or report decisions.
Learning Objectives:
* Assess and select relevant data sources to answer a specific public sector policy question Design and describe a data collection that can be used to answer a specific public sector policy question
* Evaluate reports based on statistical information to answer a specific public sector policy question
* Use results from reports based on statistical information to make recommendations for a specific public sector policy question.
Course Outline:
1. Assessing and selecting data sources
* Sources of data
e.g. existing collections, administrative datasets, new surveys, censuses, experiments, results of data integration projects;
* Properties of data
e.g. origins, quality, contents, classification systems, non-response, editing and imputation, data quality, other strengths and limitations
2. Designing and describing a data collection
* Requirements of data collection design
* Target and survey populations
* Sample design
* Collection mode
* Information collected
* Limitations
* Statistical outputs
3. Evaluating reports based on statistical information
* 'Fitness for purpose' of the statistical information source
* 'Fitness for purpose' of the analysis, reliability, validity of conclusions and the clarity of content
4. Using the results from reports to make recommendations
* Forming a response to a question based on a report
* Making decisions and/or recommendations
Course Format:
This is an interactive two-day workshop. It forms part of the National Certificate in Official Statistics but can also attended as a stand-alone workshop.
Schedule:
Thursday, 17 November 2011 9:00am - 5:00pm Workshop
Friday, 18 November 2011 9:00am - 5:00pm Workshop
Richard Arnold is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Before coming to Victoria he worked in Survey Design at Statistics New Zealand and in environmental health statistics at Imperial College in London.