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2020 20 Jan 09:00 — 17:00

PG Dip: Survey Data Analysis for Development

This diploma is intended to equip participants with the survey and data skills to contribute to the policy debates in South
Africa and the world. Both the practical data skills as well as the theoretical understanding of the development and policy context will be emphasised.
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Teaching Lab, Economics Building, Middle Campus

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Alison Siljeur, 5708

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Short courses and workshops
2020 20 Jan 09:00 — 24 Jan 17:00

Econometrics short course

This course revises the statistical concepts relevant to regression analysis. It introduces Ordinary Least Squares regression and discusses how and why it is used. The course also covers inference in regression, dummy dependent variables, violations of the OLS assumptions and specification and data issues. Participants will use household survey data and the statistical software Stata.
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Teaching Lab, Economics Building, Middle Campus

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Alison Siljeur, 5708

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Short courses and workshops
2020 27 Jan 09:00 — 31 Jan 17:00

Understanding complex social survey data

This course is aimed at postgraduate students (Masters and Ph.D.), researchers, and officials in state agencies wanting to analyse social surveys using Stata. It explains the complex nature of the sample design of household surveys, including unequal probabilities of selection and weighting, clustering and stratification. It also covers calibration, variance estimation, data quality and (briefly) imputation.View our training page |

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Teaching Lab, Economics Building, Middle Campus

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Alison Siljeur

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Short courses and workshops
2020 30 Jan 09:00 — 31 Jan 17:00

Science for Development: Building bridges across disciplines

An interdisciplinary workshop on “Science for Development” jointly hosted by the International Science Council’s (ISC) Regional Office for Africa (ROA) and the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) will run on 30 - 31 January 2020. Registration is free and closes on 31 October 2019.
DataFirst / UCT have expressed support for this initiative .Visist the website |

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South African Astronomical Observatory

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Kevin Govender

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Short courses and workshops
2020 20 Feb 09:00 — 23 Feb 17:00

Evidence Based Medicine

Organised by the University of Cape Town & University of Stellenbosch, Departments of Medicine.
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Venue: 

The River Club Conference Centre, Observatory

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Janet Sirmongpong
021 406 6348

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Conferences
2020 04 Aug 09:00 — 06 Aug 17:00

Leadership Conference 2020

We would like to welcome you all to our 3rd Leadership Conference where we share and learn about how we can strive to improve ourselves as leaders towards the betterment of the services we offer.
Join us in the most beautiful city in the world, Cape Town, South Africa, from 4-6 August 2020 to share your research, best practices, knowledge and reflections on leadership in our complex environment. This leadership conference will help increase the knowledge on how we can become sustainable for the future generation of millennials.
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Venue: 

Century City Conference Centre

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Deidre Raubenheimer
021 406 6167

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Conferences
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