INTREC - INDEPTH Training & Research Centres of Excellence

Block 3 - Data analyses workshop

Aim of the workshop
The overall aim of the workshop is to begin developing a new SDH-focused study of publishable quality. The participants will be trained to apply quantitative empirical methods to their own data set, using the Stata Statistical Software package. The quantitative analyses will later be integrated with qualitative and other data available on the relevant subject for building the SDH-focused case study.

Learning objectives:

• To hone a research question
• To learn how to access and manipulate data.
• To learn how to generate descriptive statistics and figures to present data.
• To learn how to conduct quantitative analysis in practice.
• To start thinking how this quantitative data makes sense in the context of preliminary SDH analyses of the country (INTREC reports WP1) and other data available

Workshop description
The workshop will be conducted in a computer laboratory. The workshop will use a combination of short lectures and personal sessions with researchers. At the beginning of the workshop, researchers will briefly describe the specific question they are interested in and the data set they are planning to be using. At the end of the workshop, researchers will present a first set of regression results, and discuss them in the context of other data available, which will ideally form the basis for a later manuscript to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals.