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Sources of international development data for your research and data analysis practice

As a data analyst working in social development, data is your main resource. And in certain cases you might want to get your hands on data for your research or simply for practice. If that’s what you are looking for, then you are in luck. Over the past few years,...

Types of data in social development organizations

Data for development

Evidence-based decision making is a process of making decisions about an intervention using the best available research evidence and experiential practice. At the center of evidence-based decision making is the collection, management and analysis of different kinds of...

How to ensure data quality during data collection in the field

Mobile Data Collection

Being able to implement impactful interventions and get the intended results hinges upon making the informed decisions. The best way to make informed decisions is to collect and analyze data about development needs in a community; monitoring, evaluating, and...

Microsoft Excel Features for Data Analysis

Data Analysis

Microsoft Excel is one of, if not the number 1 data analysis software in the world in terms of popularity. This owes to how easy it is to use Excel, from entering data to cleaning your data, and summarizing your data. Excel even packs serious statistical analysis...

Using custom tables in SPSS

Data Analysis

SPSS has many powerful procedures for analyzing data. In most cases, you will find several dialog boxes that provide almost similar functionality. Other dialog boxes, such as the custom tables provide an expansive set of capabilities in the area of data analyses. The...

How to analyze multiple response questions in SPSS

Data Analysis

Multiple response questions are very common in research. When working with multiple responses in SPSS, there are specialized procedures that will help you better summarize a combination of variables resulting from multiple response questions. In this tutorial, you...