Mr Simon Freidin

Survey Research Database Manager & Analyst (HILDA)

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

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Biography

Simon is the HILDA project's Database Manager and has responsibility for:

Design and implementation of the HILDA Information System (programming the automated multi-wave data processing and database production systems);

Programming the income, tax and wealth models (checking against national ABS benchmarks);

Programming derived variables;

Programming longitudinal data discrepancy investigations;

Maintaining the data dictionary which is embedded in the datasets and supplied as input to the coding framework database;

Programming the automated frequencies.

Post-cleaning logic and integrity checking, and a wide variety of data and dataset checks;

Integration of the weights and imputation;

Integrating external data such as the ASGC and SEIFA;

Production of the marked-up questionnaires;

Production of the data zips;

Production of the CNEF datasets; and

Automated burning of the HILDA DVDs.

Simon started his career at the Australian Institute of Family Studies in research and computing support, and for a number of years managed longitudinal social research data at the University of Melbourne, notably on the Carer's Program.

He has an Honours degree in Psychology and a post-graduate diploma in Computer Science.