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The Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM) of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) is happy to announce the 6th edition of the Barcelona Summer School in Survey Methodology (July 1st to July 12th, 2019)

The Barcelona Summer School in Survey Methodology is a two-week intensive program covering diverse topics on survey methodology and advanced statistical analysis of survey data. Participants can create their own program choosing from 12 courses covering different topics. The Barcelona Summer School in Survey Methodology is organized by the Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM), located at the Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona. All courses are taught in English, by leading experts. 

We will also offer two introductory courses on the software Stata and R.  

Target group: Professionals, Researchers and Students, who wish to develop high quality surveys and employ up-to-date statistical methods for survey data analyses. Potential attendees include survey practitioners, marketing professionals, social science students and researchers.

Objective: To provide participants with the knowledge and skills needed to design surveys, implement statistical analyses and carry out quantitative research.

 

Regular courses

 

1st week

 

Monday-Wednesday (01-03/07)

Thursday and Friday (04-05/07)

9h-13h

MULTILEVEL 1 (12h)

(Practical multilevel modelling)

Carla Rampichini and Leonardo Grilli

MULTILEVEL 2 (8h)

(Analysing comparative longitudinal survey data using multilevel models)

Malcolm Fairbrother

9h-13h

 Questionnaire design (12h)

Melanie Revilla

Probability sampling methods (8h)

Alexandru Cernat

Lunch

   

14h-18h

Causal inference 1 (12h)

(Nonexperimental data)

Bruno Arpino

 Causal inference 2 (8h)

(Survey experiments)

D. J. Flynn

 

2nd week

 

Monday-Wednesday (08-10/07)

Thursday and Friday (11-12/07)

9h-13h

Applied Bayesian modelling for social sciences (12h)

Xavier Fernández i Marín

Social Networks (8h)

Luca De Benedictis

9h-13h

Machine Learning for Social Sciences (12h)

Reto Wüest

Implementing high-quality web surveys (8h)

Pamela Campanelli

Lunch

   

14h-18h

Social media research / Big data 1 (12h)

Cornelius Puschmann

Social media research / Big data (8h)

Cornelius Puschmann

 

 

Intensive introductory software courses

- Stata course (8h) on June 29th

Diederik Boertien and Jordi Gumà

- R course (8h) on July 06th

Jorge Cimentada and Basilio Moreno

 

Discounts: 

5% early bird discount to those who pay before May 15th, 2019

10% to those who register to at least 3 courses

20% to those who register to at least 5 courses 

Stata and R courses are not included in the discounts

 

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

Registration is open until 26th June 2019 at 18h!

 

Past editions:

https://www.upf.edu/web/survey/summer-school-recsm

 

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