ldemo2400  2020-2021  Louvain-la-Neuve

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information below is subject to change, in particular that concerning the teaching mode (presential, distance or in a comodal or hybrid format).
3 credits
30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Schoumaker Bruno;
Language
French
Content
The sessions will address the following themes:
  1. Quantitative Surveys: General issues
  2. Presentation of the main demographic and social survey programs
  3. Typologies of quantitative and technical surveys and problems specific to retrospective and prospective surveys
  4. Identification of the target population
  5. Events and reference periods
  6. Construction of the questionnaire
  7. Formulation of questions and nature of variables
  8. Elaboration of a plan for analyzing the questionnaires
  9. Intoduction to sampling methods
These different themes will be introduced in class and students will be led to put into practice points 4,5,6,7,8, 9.
Teaching methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Lectures, and individual and group work.
Evaluation methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

January
Group work to present the characteristics of a survey program (e.g. GGP, SHARE, EDS, LSMS) (10%)
Group work to develop a quantitative survey protocol and a questionnaire module that will be pre-tested. Two interim oral presentations are planned (1st presentation: 10%; 2nd presentation: 10%). A written work containing a critical evaluation of the achievement of the different stages of this work and the questionnaire module will be submitted early January (30%).
This evaluation is completed by a written evaluation in session. (40%)
Septembre
Students can either present only the written evaluation (40%), or the the written work (30%), or both. An oral presentation of the work is also possible (20%). 
Other information
Support: Provision of references, presentations and other course materials on the Moodle site.
Faculty or entity
PSAD


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Certificat d'université : Statistique et sciences des données (15/30 crédits)

Advanced Master in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Master [120] in Sociology

Master [120] in Population and Development Studies

Master [120] in Statistic: General