CSPro e-learning course
Posted: July 29th, 2013, 12:02 pm
The Statistical Services Centre at the University of Reading, UK is now offering an e-learning course entitled "CSPro for Data Management".
The 5-week e-learning course will take you through the process of designing and implementing a data entry application for a typical survey. Participants will learn how to create the data dictionary, data entry screen and how to program checks and skips. The course then considers the data validation tools available including data comparisons and simple frequency tables. Finally, we show how data is stored in the system and how it can easily be exported for transfer to statistics packages such as SAS, SPSS and STATA as well as to Excel.
Course Content:
Orientation to on-line learning: Familiarisation with the e-learning environment
Topic 1: Data Structures and Data Types
Topic 2: The Data Dictionary
Topic 3: Data Entry Screens
Topic 4: Logic programming for automatic skips and checks
Topic 5: Data entry options
Topic 6: CSPro files
Topic 7: Data validation
Topic 8: Dealing with dates
Topic 9: Frequency tables
Topic 10: Exporting data
Duration and price
Dates: 4 November to 6 December 2013
Duration: 5 weeks on-line (requires on average 6 to 8 hours per week, arranged within each week to suit yourself)
Price: £325
For further information please see our website at http://www.reading.ac.uk/ssc/n/ecspro.htm
The 5-week e-learning course will take you through the process of designing and implementing a data entry application for a typical survey. Participants will learn how to create the data dictionary, data entry screen and how to program checks and skips. The course then considers the data validation tools available including data comparisons and simple frequency tables. Finally, we show how data is stored in the system and how it can easily be exported for transfer to statistics packages such as SAS, SPSS and STATA as well as to Excel.
Course Content:
Orientation to on-line learning: Familiarisation with the e-learning environment
Topic 1: Data Structures and Data Types
Topic 2: The Data Dictionary
Topic 3: Data Entry Screens
Topic 4: Logic programming for automatic skips and checks
Topic 5: Data entry options
Topic 6: CSPro files
Topic 7: Data validation
Topic 8: Dealing with dates
Topic 9: Frequency tables
Topic 10: Exporting data
Duration and price
Dates: 4 November to 6 December 2013
Duration: 5 weeks on-line (requires on average 6 to 8 hours per week, arranged within each week to suit yourself)
Price: £325
For further information please see our website at http://www.reading.ac.uk/ssc/n/ecspro.htm