Past Events
Training on Sampling Methods CRRC-Azerbaijan held a training workshop on Sampling Methods, delivered by Kamil Aliyev, who got his Masters in Social Work from Washington University in St Louis and currently teaches statistics, research methods and program evaluation at Baku State University.
Online readings were followed by two 3-hour live interactive sessions on January 26 and January 30. The trainer covered a broad range of topics including the overview of research process and its phases, fundamentals in sampling: population & sample, non-probability & probability sampling, types of sampling designs, representativeness.
Social science students and NGO practitioners participated in the training. Participants shared the sampling experience from the research conducted by them. The CRRC director briefed the training participants on the sampling methodology used in CRRC 2008 Data Initiative survey, as well as the challenges and limitations that the DI team faced during the survey work.
Workshop participants expressed their interest in attending similar trainings and acquiring practical skills in sampling.
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