10.45

Coffee and registration

11.00

Presentation 1

Introduction to the 2001 Licensed SARs: background and access arrangements

• Introduction to the 2001 Licensed SARs
  • The background and release of 1991 data
  • The SARs request
  • Outcome of request
  • Two versions of the data
• Licensing
  • What the license means
  • What the license is
  • How to register: academic and non-academic
• Access arrangements
  • Academic vs non-academic difference
  • Direct download including software options
  • Nesstar
  • Obtaining documentation
    
    

11.45

Hands-on session 1

Accessing the 2001 SARs in Nesstar

• Access web site
• View documentation
• Explore the data
• Examining basic variables
• Producing graphics
• Downloading a subset
  
  

12.30

Lunch

13.15

Presentation 2

Working with the 2001 Individual Licensed SAR

• Software issues: scope and limitations
  • Nesstar
  • SPSS
  • Stata
  • NSDstat
• Data quality issues
  • Census quality issues
  • ONC and population base
  • Census coverage
  • Problems with specific questions and variables
  • Known bugs
• SAR data issues
  • Restrictions on data availability (broadbanding etc.)
  • Imputation
  • PRAMming
  • Impact of Imputation and PRAMming on analysis
  • Advice for users
• Analysing SAR data
  • Secondary data issues: know your data, working with a large dataset
  • Sample size and error
  • Appropriate analysis
  • Example in SPSS
  • Example in NSDstat
    
    

14.00

Hands-on workshop 2

Working with the 2001 Licensed SAR

• Analyses using SPSS, Stata and NSDstat
• Selecting appropriate variables
• Doing recodes
• Producing graphs
• Hitting limitations
  
  

14.45

15.00

Final presentation

Looking forward and moving forward

• CAMS version individual data
  • Content
  • Access arrangements
• Household SAR
  • Content
  • Progress to date
  • Heirarchy
• SAM file
• Using the 2001 Licensed SAR in learning and teaching
  • Why?
  • Access arrangements
  • CHCC
• Documentation
• Helpdesk
  
  

15.30

End