HOW TO MEASURE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

Research methodology: from theory to measurement of social behaviours.
Data collection with questionnaire, questionnaire design.
Descriptive statistics: type of statistical variables; frequency distributions and their graphical representations; measures of location and spread; relation between variables, general concepts of correlation and regression.
Basic concepts of statistical inference: estimation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing.
Data sources: Census, administrative sources, surveys for countries with poor statistical systems.
The role of indicators; simple and complex indices.
Examples from different fields: demographic indicators, health and education indicators, measures for economic resources, economic inequalities and poverty, human development indices, millennium development goals and indicators.