Unit QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
- Course
- Social policies and social work
- Study-unit Code
- A001412
- Curriculum
- Progettazione delle politiche sociali
- Teacher
- Michela Gnaldi
- Teachers
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- Michela Gnaldi
- Hours
- 63 ore - Michela Gnaldi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SECS-S/05
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- PART I
The measurement of social phenomena
PART II
The construction and validation of measurement scales
Composite Indicators
PART III
Students’ project works - Reference texts
- OECD. (2008). Handbook on constructing composite indicators: Methodology and user guide. Paris:
OECD Publishing, OECD. - Educational objectives
- The aim of the course, in the quantitative methodological area, is to offer
students with the methodological foundations necessary for grasping the
complexity of social phenomena and their measurement, with particular
attention to the construction of composite indicators as tools for
synthetize them. - Prerequisites
- Previous knowledge of introductory statistics is hoped pre-requisite.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, practical work and project work
- Other information
- none
- Learning verification modality
- Written exam, and project work
- Extended program
- PART I
The measurement of social phenomena
PART II
The construction and validation of measurement scales
Composite Indicators
PART III
Students’ project works - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Salute e benessere (3)
Uguaglianza di genere (5)