Table 1:
Content Outline
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Welcome Address
o Introduction of instructors
o Review of Training objectives
C-DAMAA
o Introduction activities of C-DAMAA
o Objectives of C-DAMAA
o Accessing C-DAMAA website
o Registration and Downloading Data sets
from C-DAMAA
Types of Datasets
o Quantitative and Qualitative
o Primary Data
o Secondary data
o Cross Sectional Data
o Time series
o Panel Data
Data Sources
o C-DAMAA (UCC)
o
o
o
o
o
o
V.
 ICPSR
 NADA
Ghana Statistical Service
World Bank
International Financial Statistics
UNCTAD
DATAFIRST
MIX MARKET
Introduction to Statistical Softwares
Presentation Method
Name
of Handouts/Materials
Presenter
Briefly introduce self, training Prof.
None
objectives for training session, Samuel K.
and training agenda.
Annim
This would take the form of
power point presentation.
Participants
would
be
practically walked through how
to navigate through the CDAMAA website
Presentation would mainly take
the form of PowerPoint
presentation.
There would be discussions on
the forms the various types of
data would take.
Time
5mins
Ms. Zelda Soft
copies
of 30mins
Arku
PowerPoint presentations
would be made available
to students
Mr.
Emmanuel
Orkoh
Soft
copies
of 90mins
PowerPoint presentations
would be made available
to students
This would mainly be practical Mr.
It would be web based
in nature. Students would be William G.
taught how to navigate through Cantah
the website various data
sources.
90mins
o Excel
 Basic introduction to excel, its
features and how to use excel for
basic
statistical
analysis,
graphing, drawing pivot tables
etc.
o SPSS
 Basic introduction to SPSS, its
features,
its
capabilities,
terminologies, etc.
o STATA
 Basic introduction to STATA,
its features, its capabilities,
terminologies, etc.
VI.
o E-Views
 Basic introduction to E-Views,
its features, its capabilities,
terminologies, etc.
o NVIVO
 Basic introduction to NVIVO,
its features, its capabilities,
terminologies, etc.
Data Management & Analysis
o SPSS
 Creation of SPSS entry template
 Coding and Data entry
 Data Management
Presentation, Discussions and Mr.
Practical Exercises.
Emmanuel
Orkoh
PowerPoint Presentation
PowerPoint Presentation
PowerPoint Presentation
PowerPoint Presentation
Soft
copies
of 60mins
PowerPoint presentations
and data set to be used for
practical exercises would
be made available to
students
Mr.
Soft
copies
of 30mins
Raymond
PowerPoint presentations
Kofi Nti
would be made available
to students
Mr.
Soft
copies
of 60 mins
William G. PowerPoint presentations
Cantah/ Mr. would be made available
Emmanuel to students
Orkoh
Mr.
Soft
copies
of 30mins
William G. PowerPoint presentations
Cantah
would be made available
to students
Mr.
Yaw Soft
copies
of 30mins
Asamoah
PowerPoint presentations
would be made available
to students
Presentation, Discussions and Mr.
Practical Exercises.
Raymond
Kofi
Nti/
Mr.
William G.
Cantah
Soft
copies
of 240
PowerPoint presentations mins
and data set to be used for
practical exercises would
be made available to
students
o STATA
 Data Management
 Descriptive and inferential
Statistics
 t-test
 Chi-square
 ANOVA
 Regression
 OLS and Logit/Probit
o EVIEWS
 Data management
 Descriptive Statistics
 Time series analysis
Presentation, Discussions and Mr.
Practical Exercises.
William G.
Cantah/ Mr.
Emmanuel
Orkoh
Presentation, Discussions and Mr.
Practical Exercises.
William G.
Cantah/ Mr.
Emmanuel
Orkoh
Soft
copies
of 900mins
PowerPoint presentations
and data set to be used for
practical exercises would
be made available to
students
Soft
copies
of
PowerPoint presentations
and data set to be used for
practical exercises would
be made available to
students
Presentation, Discussions and Mr.
Yaw Soft
copies
of
o NVIVO
 Transcribing
Practical Exercises.
Asamoah
PowerPoint presentations
 Data Cleaning
and data set to be used for
 Data input
practical exercises would
 Analysis
be made available to
students
Presentation, Discussions and Mr.
Soft
copies
of
VII.
Microsoft Office and APA Referencing
o Word Processing
Practical Exercises.
William G. PowerPoint presentations
o Using Zotero for APA Referencing
Cantah
would be made available
to students
NB: Participants would have two sections a day. Each section would last for two hours and there would 30 mins break before the
section takes place.
180
mins
240mins
120mins
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