The Centre organised a training course on “Statistical Data Analysis” at the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Statistics on 18-21 July 2011. The Course was provided by Ms. Afsaneh Yazdani, Director General of Office of Statistical Methodology & Sample Surveys at the Statistical Centre of Iran, and was attended by 14 staff members of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Statistics.

The training course on “Statistical Data Analysis” mainly covered the following subjects:

• Data Collection; Presenting and Summarizing Data
• Estimating Population Parameters; Parametric and Non-Parametric Tests of Hypotheses (Inferences on One Population)
• Introduction to SPSS (Data Management, Tabulation, Graphs)
• Parametric and Non-Parametric Tests of Hypotheses (Inferences on Two/More Populations)
• Regression Analysis (Correlation; Linear Regression; Multiple Regression)
• Sampling Design and Survey Data; Complexity of Analysing Survey Data
• Preparing for Survey Data Analysis (Weighting; Non-response Adjustment/Imputation)
• Conducting Survey Data Analysis
• Issues on Data Quality (Definitions of Data Quality; Sources of Error; Prevention, Detection of the Errors and Remedies)
• Data Mining (Brief Introduction to Concepts and Methods)