Event: Economics and Applications Training Workshop

As the economy recovers, will you be able to analyse and explain its changing face?

The Economics and Applications workshop is invaluable for individuals who perform national and sub-national demographic, economic, and socioeconomic research for South Africa and will benefit organisations and individuals that need to understand the current market fundamentals of a region. Skills acquired by attending the workshop will empower the individual to build capacity in their work environment to the benefit of fellow researchers and colleagues.

Workshop Outcomes

• Understand and interpret demographic, economic, and socioeconomic variables
• Calculate demographic, economic, and socioeconomic variables
• Compile national and sub-national economic and development profiles
• Identify the underlying relationship between economic variables
• Understand research methodology
• Extract and manipulate data
• Apply statistical techniques in Excel
• Write effective reports

Previous attendees liked:

• The trainer’s expertise and ability to explain complex theories and application methods.
• Everything. Practical exercises were good.
• Teamwork. At Government level if we can work as teams we could address many service delivery challenges.
• Good refresher course in Macro/Micro economic theory.

Registrations close 30 July 2010.