Events

The World Bank, in cooperation with the International Security and Development Center and the Households in Conflict Network organized an international training course on how to measure violent conflict in micro-level surveys. The course strengthened the capacity of the participants from national... Read more

The World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics organized a joint workshop that took place in Rome, Italy in November 2014. This workshop was part of a broader work program with the ultimate objective... Read more

The World Bank LSMS-ISA team held the fourth annual workshop for government officials from the national statistics offices of the seven LSMS-ISA partner countries in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first day of the workshop consisted of presentations and discussion on key aspects of data management,... Read more

In this second workshop with the second cohort of participants, the World Bank-CMAAE team focused on intermediate economic analysis using Stata, as well as an introduction to the data management and processing software CSPro. Participants built on their knowledge of Stata from the previous workshop... Read more

With this workshop, the World Bank-CMAAE team welcomed a new cohort of participants to the second workshop series conducted jointly by the LSMS-ISA and CMAAE programs. The workshop focused on a general introduction to multi-topic household surveys, as well as an introduction to economic analysis... Read more

This joint World Bank-CMAAE three-day workshop built upon the first Stata training to introduce participants to using panel data in Stata. Participants reviewed and reinforced skills in data manipulation and analysis and learned techniques for 'real world' data analysis (such as dealing with... Read more

The World Bank LSMS-ISA team held its annual workshop for government officials from the national statistics offices of the seven LSMS-ISA partner countries to discuss issues of importance concerning questionnaire design and implementation. The workshop commenced with a welcome address by the... Read more

In addition to developing and implementing a rigorous curriculum for Masters students, an important component of the CMAAE project is to build skills and research capacity among faculty. Towards this end, a joint World Bank-CMAAE three-day workshop was held on conducting economic analysis using... Read more

Teams from the World Bank LSMS-ISA project and the Livestock Data Innovation in Africa (LDIA) project organized a joint workshop to discuss existing challenges in collecting household-level livestock data and methods of improving the current situation of livestock statistics in Africa. Technical... Read more

The main objective of the joint World Bank-CMAAE workshop on impact evaluation was to provide an overview of practical experimental and econometric evaluation methods. Information on effective experimental design was provided, along with the presentation of a survey of econometric techniques for... Read more

The World Bank LSMS-ISA team and representatives from the national statistics offices of the seven LSMS countries attended a workshop to discuss issues of importance regarding the processing and dissemination of data. Technical specialists and local government officials gave presentations on topics... Read more

The CSPro programming language allows for writing programming logic for its Data Entry and Batch Edit applications. In Data Entry applications, it is possible to write logic to control and check the keying operation as it progresses. In Batch Edit applications, logic can be used to identify and... Read more