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Social Sciences

Social Indicators: Theory and Applications

When:

26 May - 29 May 2025

School:

Barcelona Four Seasons School of Demography

Institution:

Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED – Centre for Demographic Studies). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

City:

Barcelona

Country:

Spain

Language:

English

Fee:

50 EUR

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Social Indicators: Theory and Applications

About

This course aims to give a broad overview of some of the most popular indicators used in social science research, both from a theoretical and a practical perspective. It will span through a variegated set of topics, including indicators of economic inequality and poverty, composite indices of well-being, human development, polarization, gender inequality and health inequality.

Course leader

Iñaki Permanyer. He is an ICREA Research Professor and Head of the Health and Ageing unit at the Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics-CED. He is an expert in the design of social indicators, which he has applied in several areas of social science.

Target group

The course will be useful to undergraduate, Master and PhD students working in any area of the social sciences (preferably using quantitative methods or approaches), like Demography, Sociology, Economics, Political Science or Environmental Science.

Course aim

Students will learn the foundations about how to define and construct social indicators. Students will be encouraged to construct their own measures from the tools and ideas taught in the course. It is thus expected that students have some basic programming skills or experience in manipulating datasets.

Fee info

Fee

50 EUR, This course is offered for a special fee of 50 euros, while the original value of each course is 300 euros.

Interested?

When:

26 May - 29 May 2025

School:

Barcelona Four Seasons School of Demography

Institution:

Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics (CED – Centre for Demographic Studies). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Language:

English

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