Sources and means of gathering statistical data from administrative records, censures, and surveys and statistical experiments. Design of surveys: defining the population, indicators, designing tools for measurement, methods of data collection, the administration of fieldwork, dealing with non-response. Coding, data cleaning, data entry, writing reports. Designing samples: population, sampling frame, probability and non-probability samples, simple random samples, estimation for subpopulations,, estimating proportions, determining the sample size, stratified samples, cluster sampling, multi-staged samples, sampling with probability proportional to size, confidence intervals, bias, variance, standard error.
Prerequisite:
APST630 | MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
