Training Opportunities

2010 HILDA User Training

The 2010 HILDA Data User Training took place in Sydney and Canberra on 8 and 9 June respectively.

Topics covered
This training session aimed to give an introduction to the HILDA Survey and its datasets and documentation. It covered:

• Overview of sample design / following rules
• Datasets
• Conventions
• Documentation
• Creating your own dataset and identifying key variables
• PanelWhiz
• Derived variables – Family / Income / Wealth / Expenditure / HistoryWeighting
• Imputation
• Calculating standard errors
• Data quality issues
• Question and answer session

Download slides from the 2010 training, PDF (473 KB).

Previous HILDA User Training

The 2009 HILDA Data User Training took place at the University of Melbourne on 13–15 July.

Stata Exercises has all the do files for the training.

The 2007 HILDA Data User Training was held on 18 July prior to the 3rd HILDA Survey Research Conference which occurred on 19–20 July.

Slides from the 2007 HILDA User Training course

Note the HILDA User Manual covers much of the material provided in the User Trainings.

Other Training

If you know of any panel data analysis courses being run in Australia, please email us.