Training Opportunities
Forthcoming training opportunities
Getting started: Analysing HILDA with Stata
A hands-on introductory HILDA Survey training course will be held on 30 September – 2 October 2013 at the University of Melbourne, just before the HILDA Survey Research Conference on 3-4 October 2013.
Course informationThis 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? 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 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 instructorsThe course will be presented by Professor Robert Breunig and Ms Nicole Watson.
Professor Robert Breunig is a member of the Crawford School of Public Policy 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.
Nicole Watson is part of the HILDA Survey team at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. She has worked on the HILDA project since 2000 and has been involved in the sample design, weighting, imputation and overall survey management.
You do not need to have used the HILDA data or Stata before. You should have some experience with a statistical software package such as SAS, Stata, or SPSS. While the course will be taught in Stata, both SAS and SPSS equivalent code will be provided to the participants after the course.
Course details| Location: | University of Melbourne - venue to be advised |
| Date: | Monday 30 September to Wednesday 2 October, 2013 |
| Time: | 9.15am – 4.00pm |
| Catering: | Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea provided |
| Fees: | $730 ($550 PhD and Masters students) |
| Registration: | Places are limited. Register via the link below. |
You may register your interest in the course with Victoria Lane prior to 13 September although payment must be made within 5 working days of registering your interest in order to secure your place.
Cancellations within 5 working days prior to the start of the training will not be refunded.
Following this introductory training in September/October, we hope to offer intermediate level training in December with the Panel Data Analysis Techniques with HILDA Examples course.
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Past training information
To access links and information about our past training courses, please refer to the Past Training page on our website.