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CathyGarlick
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CSPro e-learning course

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The Statistical Services Centre at the University of Reading, UK is now offering an e-learning course entitled "CSPro for Data Management".

The 5-week e-learning course will take you through the process of designing and implementing a data entry application for a typical survey. Participants will learn how to create the data dictionary, data entry screen and how to program checks and skips. The course then considers the data validation tools available including data comparisons and simple frequency tables. Finally, we show how data is stored in the system and how it can easily be exported for transfer to statistics packages such as SAS, SPSS and STATA as well as to Excel.

Course Content:

Orientation to on-line learning: Familiarisation with the e-learning environment
Topic 1: Data Structures and Data Types
Topic 2: The Data Dictionary
Topic 3: Data Entry Screens
Topic 4: Logic programming for automatic skips and checks
Topic 5: Data entry options
Topic 6: CSPro files
Topic 7: Data validation
Topic 8: Dealing with dates
Topic 9: Frequency tables
Topic 10: Exporting data

Duration and price

Dates: 4 November to 6 December 2013
Duration: 5 weeks on-line (requires on average 6 to 8 hours per week, arranged within each week to suit yourself)
Price: £325

For further information please see our website at http://www.reading.ac.uk/ssc/n/ecspro.htm
Cathy Garlick
Data Management Consultant
Statistical Services Centre
University of Reading, UK

c.a.garlick@reading.ac.uk
www.reading.ac.uk/ssc
CathyGarlick
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Re: CSPro e-learning course

Post by CathyGarlick »

This is a reminder about the CSPro e-learning course being offered by the Statistical Services Centre, University of Reading and due to run between 4 November and 6 December this year.

The cost for this 5-week course is £325 (just under $500 at the current exchange rate).

Details of the course are in the attached file and I have also attached an A4 poster - please circulate these to anyone you believe might be interested.

Thanks
Cathy
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Cathy Garlick
Data Management Consultant
Statistical Services Centre
University of Reading, UK

c.a.garlick@reading.ac.uk
www.reading.ac.uk/ssc
French Smith

Re: CSPro e-learning course

Post by French Smith »

Dear Cathy Garlick,

I am interested in the CSPro e-learning course but have some questions
before I sign up. Thank you in advance for any responses

1. I have STATA on a Macbook Pro. It seems this course is used for
CSPro on Windows - will it therefore not be appropriate for me?

2. My understanding is that CSPro is about data entry not processing
tables. However, I am also told that Demographic and Health Surveys
(DHS) produces the tables in their reports using CSPro, not STATA nor
SPSS. Could you/your course help me learn how to use CSPro to
replicate DHS tables? Can CSPro really be used to produce the DHS
tables?

3. Apart from the orientation session, can all other course elements
be taken at anytime during the relevant week? I will be working full
time, and just wonder if the course has set hours I need to be excused
from the day job.

Thanks!

French
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