The focus of this course is on producing high-quality, reproducible, and useable datasets. Topics include survey measurement and design, principles of data collection, quality assurance, and data sharing and reporting. Through the course, students will develop a data management plan, create a tablet-based data collection program using Open Data Kit, and develop code for basic quality checks using Stata. The module also aims to provide a basic foundation of programming using the software R. This introductory course will introduce to the software “R” and how to do basic data manipulation, plotting and basic statistics to enable them to do data analysis using this widely used free software.
Key Words: Design, Connect, Collect, Download, Reporting, Statistics, Manipulation, Plotting
