STATISTICAL SURVEYS

Academic year
2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
INDAGINI STATISTICHE
Course code
EM1114 (AF:529579 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
1
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The course allows students to deepen social research issues by examining mainly quantitative qualitative approaches and techniques, with a particular focus on evaluation methods.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Frontal lessons, lab with R program, group work.
Italian
written and oral

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

This programme is provisional and there could still be changes in its contents.
Last update of the programme: 28/11/2024