Course overview
This course aims to provide students with knowledge of fundamental concepts and methods for demographic and socio-economic data collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation. It intends to cover essential topics that will enable students to analyse demographic data, including measurement, data collection, exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics (especially hypothesis testing, correlation, regression analysis), and graphical procedures. Computer-based practical workshops provide hands-on training and skills in data analysis, interpretation, and results-writing.
- The Demographic Foundation: Data, Ethics, and Description
- Uncovering Relationships: Inference and Association
- Explaining Complexity: Multivariate Models and Communication
Course learning outcomes
- Describe basic concepts, methods, and techniques for primary and secondary data collection and how they can be used in population and migration studies.
- Retrieve and analyse Australian population-level demographic and socio-economic data, presenting results using tables and graphs and interpreting the key findings.
- Analyse census or survey data using statistical software, calculating descriptive and inferential statistics including hypothesis testing and regression analysis.
- Select and apply appropriate data analysis techniques for data related to a real-world scenario.