Last Updated

26 Mar 2008

EPI 418, Spring Quater 2008 (listed jointly EPI and CHS)

The course is both practical and applied, teaching how to do rapid community-based surveys for use in either developing countries or regions of the United States where information and survey funds are scarce.  The course, taught by Professor Ralph R. Frerichs (click at left), is focuses on practical components of planning, conducting, analyzing and reporting findings of rapid surveys. 

WEB ACCESS CODE

All of the course material will be distributed via the web. A web-access code will be given to enrolled students via email prior to the start of class.

COURSE MATERIAL (requires password for some material)

Included here are the course outline, assigned readings, and data sets for the Software Training Manual, individual problem and group problem.  Also included are black and white copies of the slides (6 per page), to be distributed before the lecture.

STATA SOFTWARE

For advanced analyses of two-stage cluster survey data, you will need special software that does not assume each subject is selected independently.  UCLA students are recommended to obtain the perpetual (i.e., life-long) Intercooled Stata 9 software from Stata Corporation.  The specific steps are:

• Call Stata Corporation directly at 800-782-8272
• Ask for the GRAD PLAN with the receptionist answers (you will then be connected to a customer service person)
• Ask to buy Stata 10 (you will need to give your credit card information)
• UCLA Software Center will email you when Stata 10 is ready to be picked up at 4933 Math Sciences Building (usually within one day)
• The total cost of Stata 10 for UCLA students is about $150-160.
• The cost of the Survey Data Reference Manual (Release 10) is $40, as described below.

Stata Corportation

Description of Survey Data Reference Manual