STATISTICAL SURVEYS

Academic year

2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years

Official course title

INDAGINI STATISTICHE

Course code

EM1114 (AF:506349 AR:290525)

Modality

On campus classes

ECTS credits

6

Degree level

Master's Degree Programme (DM270)

Educational sector code

SECS-S/05

Period

2nd Term

Course year

2

Where

VENEZIA

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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals

The course allows students to deepen social research issues by examining mainly quantitative qualitative approaches and techniques, with a particular focus on evaluation methods.

Expected learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to design a questionnaire for the data collection and to carry out simple statistical analysis to interpret the collected data useful to prepare a report.

Pre-requirements

No previous courses are given as a prerequisite. A minimum of knowledge of the area of interest and a strong motivation are essential to achieving the teaching objectives.

Contents

Part I: Design of the statistical survey in the social sciences:
- contents and stages of the statistical survey
- sampling techniques: target population and sample
- interview techniques and questionnaire
Part II: Data analysis
- organization and synthesis of data
- association and dependence measures
- statistical modeling

Referral texts

Corbetta, P. (2015) La ricerca Sociale: Metodologia e tecniche II (le tecniche quantitativbe), Il Mulino, Bologna.
Corbetta, P. (2015) La ricerca Sociale: Metodologia e tecniche IV (l'analisi dei dati), Il Mulino, Bologna.

Assessment methods

The examination will consist of the presentation and discussion of practical research work (by groups). The work can be done in groups or individually and will be discussed in presence.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons, lab with R program, group work.

Teaching language

Italian

Type of exam

written and oral

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Definitive programme.

Last update of the programme: 30/06/2024