Undergraduate Course: Researching Contemporary Britain (Individuals, Households and Families): A Course on Analysing Longitudinal Household D (SSPS10018)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | School (School of Social and Political Studies) |
Other subject area | None |
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| Course description | There is now a great deal of household panel data available to social science researchers. This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of approaches to analysing household panel data. The course will have a practical focus and introduce students to analysing existing large-scale household panel datasets. These datasets will include the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Survey). The course will be taught using Stata software. |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| At the end of this course, students are expected to be familiar with the following: Panel data; Individual and household level information; Panel data models; Other statistical models suitable for duration and temporal data |
Assessment Information
20% A research plan using the British Household Panel Survey data or a similar data resource.
80% A short research paper following from their research plan.
This will include i. A substantive introduction ii. Descriptive statistics iii. An appropriate multivariate analysis iv. A set of substantive conclusions v. An appendix which includes an electronic version of their analyses (in the form of a Stata .do file)
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