Training Opportunities
2012
Getting started: Analysing HILDA with STATA
A hands-on introductory HILDA Survey training course will be held on 11-12 April 2012 at the Australian National University.
Course information
This 2-day training course is designed for people who are interested in using the HILDA Survey data but have not yet done so. It will take a descriptive research problem such as "What happens to single mothers who receive Parenting Payment Single (PPS)? Do they stay on the program from one year to the next? Do they move to another income support program? Do they leave income support?" and go through all the steps necessary to answer this question. We begin with the HILDA DVD and assume participants have relatively little experience in working with large data sets. The training will then cover the following topics:
• Accessing the data
• Finding the right data
• Visualising the data
• Merging household and individual data
• Dealing with missing values
• Using imputed values
• Creating analysis variables from HILDA data
• Generating descriptive statistics in the panel context
• Understanding data patterns in the panel context
• Answering the question
There will be scope within the course to deal with individual questions which participants might have about data extraction and structure in panel data contexts.
Course instructor
Professor Robert Breunig is a member of the Economics Program in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His primary applied research interests are in analysing individual and firm behaviour, evaluating government tax and transfer programs and analysing large data sets.
Course details
$690.00 (inc. GST) Short Course Times and Location Short Course Topics and Instructors Click here to view Course Summaries and Instructor Biographies Prices per Course Faculty/Professional: $850.00 If you know of any panel data analysis courses being run in Australia, please email us.
Online Registration
Other Training
Centre for Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis Course
Wednesday April 11 and Thursday April 12 from 9:30 am until 5:30 pm
Friday April 13, from 9:30 am until 1:30 pm.
The Short Courses will be held on the first floor of the Alan Gilbert Building at 161 Barry Street, Carlton, South Victoria 3053.
Below are the prices for Advanced Registration (beginning March 1, 2012, a $75 late fee will be added).
Students: $650.00
CARMA Members
Faculty/Professional: $425.00
Students: $325.00
Further training opportunities for 2012
We hope to offer a further hands-on introductory HILDA Survey training course again around September 2012 if there is sufficient interest.
We are also exploring the possiblity of running another course on Panel Data Analysis Techniques, possibly in July. Please subscribe to the HILDA mailing list to receive notification of upcoming courses once we have more details.
2011
The Panel Data Analysis Techniques with HILDA examples took place at the University of Melbourne on the 2-4 November.
| Panel data analysis (notes) | Panel data analysis (STATA exercises) | HILDA-specific | |
|---|---|---|---|
| day 1 | Basics of panel data | Creating your own dataset | |
| day 2 | Panel regression analysis and its generalisations | Stata do files: ex2, ex3, ex4, Simulated example |
Key aspects of the HILDA Survey |
| day 3 | Discrete response models and dynamic models | Weighting and imputation |
The 2011 HILDA Data User Training took place at the University of Melbourne on the 13th of July.
Download slides from the 2011 HILDA User Training.