Training for charities and not-for-profits

Understanding Society has launched a free training programme to help third sector organisations use household and longitudinal data.

Aimed at new data users and those with experience of simpler aspects of the data, the two-day course covers:

Day 1: lectures and group work

• an introduction to different types of data, including privacy and governance issues
• Understanding Society – survey design, content, file structures and how to access the data
• case study examples of research use
• discussion about the feasible uses of Understanding Society data

Day 2: data management

• how to combine individual and household level information, e.g. for family research
• merging multiple waves of data
• using weights to produce population-level estimates
• data exercises using your preferred software: SPSS, R, Stata, or SAS

The course runs for two full days on 21 and 22 April on Zoom from 9.00am to 4.30/5.00pm.