Research Design, mobile data collection, mapping and data analysis using NVIVO and SPSS course

New developments in data science offer a tremendous opportunity to improve decision-making. In the development world, there has been an increase in the number of data gathering initiative such as baseline surveys, Socio-Economic Surveys, Demographic and Health Surveys, Nutrition Surveys, Food Security Surveys, Program Evaluation Surveys, Employees, customers and vendor satisfaction surveys, and opinion polls among others, all intended to provide data for decision making.

It is essential that these efforts go beyond merely generating new insights from data but also to systematically enhance individual human judgment in real development contexts.

How can organizations better manage the process of converting the potential of data science to real development outcomes?  How can organizations go beyond merely generating new insights to changing behaviors — not only of their employees, but beneficiary and communities too?

This ten days hands-on course is tailored to put all these important consideration into perspective.
It is envisioned that upon completion, the participants will be empowered with the necessary skills to produce accurate and cost effective data and reports that are useful and friendly for decision making.

It will be conducted using ODK, GIS, NVIVO and SPSS

DURATION

2 Weeks

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand and appropriately use statistical terms and concepts
• Design and Implement universally acceptable Surveys
• Convert data into various formats using appropriate software
• Use mobile data gathering tools such as Open Data Kit (ODK)
• Use GIS software to plot and display data on basic maps
• Qualitative data analysis using NVIVO
• Perform basic data analysis tasks with SPSS
• Perform simple to complex data management tasks using SPSS
• Correctly identify appropriate statistical test for basic analysis s and perform them using SPSS
• Write reports from survey data
• Put strategies to improve data demand and use in decision making

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This is a general course targeting participants with elementary knowledge of Statistics from Agriculture, Economics, Food Security and Livelihoods, Nutrition, Education, Medical or public health professionals among others who already have some statistical knowledge, but wish to be conversant with the concepts and applications of statistical modeling.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

Module1: Basic statistical terms and concepts

• Introduction to statistical concepts
• Descriptive Statistics
• Inferential statistics

Module 2:Research Design

• The role and purpose of research design
• Types of research designs
• The research process
• Which method to choose?
• Exercise: Identify a project of choice and developing a research design

Module 3: Survey Planning, Implementation and Completion

• Types of surveys
• The survey process
• Survey design
• Methods of survey sampling
• Determining the Sample size
• Planning a survey
• Conducting the survey
• After the survey
• Exercise: Planning for a survey based on the research design selected

Module 4:Introduction

• Introduction to Mobile Data gathering
• Benefits of Mobile Applications
• Data and types of Data
• Introduction to  common mobile based data collection platforms
• Managing devices
• Challenges of Data Collection
• Data aggregation, storage and dissemination
• Types of questions
• Data types for each question
• Types of questionnaire or Form logic
• Extended data types geoid, image and multimedia

Module 5:Survey Authoring

• Design forms using a web interface using:

o    ODK Build

o    Koboforms

o    PurcForms

• Hands-on Exercise

Module 6:Preparing the mobile phone for data collection

• Installing applications: ODK Collect

o    Using Google play

o    Manual install (.apk files)

• Configuring the device (Mobile Phones)
• Uploading the form into the mobile devices
• Hands-on Exercise

Module 7:Designing forms manually: Using XLS Forms

• Introduction to XLS forms syntax
• New data types
• Notes and dates
• Multiple choice Questions
• Multiple Language Support
• Hints and Metadata
• Hands-on Exercise

Module 8:Advanced survey Authoring

• Conditional Survey Branching

o    Required questions

o    Constraining responses

o    Skip: Asking Relevant questions

o    The specify other

• Grouping questions

o    Skipping many questions at once (Skipping a section)

• Repeating a set of questions
• Special formatting
• Making dynamic calculations

Module 9:Hosting survey data (Online)

• ODK Aggregate
• Formhub
• ona.io
• KoboToolbox
• Uploading forms to the server

Module 10:Hosting Survey Data (Configuring a local server)

• Configuring ODK Aggregate on a local server
• Downloading data
• Manual download (ODK Briefcase)
• Using the online server interface

Module 11: GIS mapping of survey data using QGIS

• Introduction to GIS for Researchers and data scientists
• Importing survey data into a GIS
• Mapping of survey data using QGIS
• Exercise: QGIS mapping exercise.

Module 12:Understanding Qualitative Research

• Qualitative Data
• Types of Qualitative Data
• Sources of Qualitative data
• Qualitative vs Quantitative
• NVivo key terms
• The NVivo Workspace