Internationalizing the Intro Statistics Course in Business

1. Internationalizing the Intro Statistics Course in Business Robert H. Carver, Ph.D. March 30 2006

2. Workshop Agenda

3. Contact Information • This PPT presentation and handout will be available at my website: • http://faculty.stonehill.edu/rcarver • Or email me: rcarver@stonehill.edu

4. Workshop Goals • Identify opportunities for using international data • Identify sources of data • Economic, demographic, health • Regional, national, household, and individual • Searchable databases, links to sites • Registration-required and institutional license services • Practical plans for next semester • Specific projects or assignments • Software compatibility issues

5. Context • Role of REAL DATA in Intro Course • Developing student skills • Data selection and acquisition • Facility with data cleaning and transfer • Analysis • Current textbook situation • Software availability

6. This morning’s examples • UN Statistics Division • World Bank • International Monetary Fund • International Labour Organization • Davidson Data Center (U Michigan) • Europa • Lippincott Library • IPUMS—Univ. Minnesota Population Center • Economist Intelligence Unit

7. UN Statistics Division • Some searchable databases; some pdf tables. • Watch for • download format options • Size of data tables • Clear variable dictionaries

8. Millenium Indicators Database

9. MDG Indicators

10. MDG Indicators Can download to CSV file

11. World Bank: Household Surveys Real chance to open eyes of US students to inequalities… Household level data!

12. World Bank

13. World Bank: HEIDE database Clicking downloads a ZIP file which students would then need to unzip.

14. World Bank Quick Query

15. World Bank Quick Query Many series missing data for many years

16. World Bank Quick Query

17. World Bank Quick Query Foreign Direct Investment, 2002 One example of an “alternative” form of data presentation… overlooked in too many stats texts.

18. Time Web – BizEd A cautionary tale: Look before you assign: beware of mystery variable coding…

19. LaborSta Internet

20. Davidson Data Center

21. Davidson Data Center

22. Davidson Data Center Some interfaces reinforce course concepts…

23. Eurostat Busy screen, but worth the effort…

24. Eurostat

25. Eurostat

26. Eurostat

27. Eurostat

28. Eurostat

29. Eurostat Summary of dimensions & variables

30. Lippincott Library

31. U Minnesota IPUMS

33. UMinn IPUMS Choices!

34. UMinn IPUMS

35. UMinn IPUMS

36. UMinn IPUMS 2000 Population of Brazil was 169,799,170… 6% sample n > 10 million. Caveat: this particular SPSS Syntax file contained 3 minor syntax errors – causing crash. Easily fixed

37. Economist Intelligence Unit

38. EIU Selection criteria Alternative displays Selected Analytics • 317 series • 150 countries & 45 regional aggregates • Time series from 1980 and forecasting out five years • For 60 largest economies, key variables projected to 2030

39. EIU Example

40. EIU Example

41. EIU Example

42. EIU Example Purple –estimates Green-- forecasts

43. EIU Example

44. Contact Information • This PPT presentation and handout will be available at my website: • http://faculty.stonehill.edu/rcarver • Or email me: rcarver@stonehill.edu