Training Opportunities - Forthcoming
Getting started: Analysing HILDA with STATA
A hands-on introductory HILDA Survey training course will be held on 10-12 September 2012 at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Course information
This 3-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
- Using the weights
- 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 School of Economics in the College of Business and Economics 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.
Pre-requisites
You do not need to have used the HILDA data before or Stata. You should have some experience with a statistical software package such as SAS, Stata, or SPSS.
Course details
| Location: | Australian National University |
| Date: | Monday 10 September to Wednesday 12 September, 2012 |
| Time: | 9.15am – 4pm |
| Catering: | Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea provided |
| Fees: | $730 (inc. GST) |
| Registration: | Places are limited to 28 |
Cancellation of a registration must be notified in writing to the HILDA Administration Assistant at the Melbourne Institute 48 hours prior to the commencement of the training to receive a full refund. No refund will be given after this time, however substitutions are possible at any time.
We hope to also offer this training course again in February 2013 in Melbourne and in April 2013 in Canberra.
We are also planning a hands-on course on Panel Data Analysis Techniques in late November.
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