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23 July 2012
   

QSA Trains QU Students

 
   

    

Doha, July 2012 - QSA offered a training course for students from Mathematics, Statistics and Physics Departments of Qatar University's College of Arts and Sciences. This is to acquaint them of how QSA provides all statistical data and information of the State.

 
   


Four students trained for a month by employees from Censuses and Household Surveys, Population and Social Statistics, and Economic Statistics and National Accounts Departments.

They also got acquainted with how Censuses and Household Surveys Department's prepare and implement Expenditure Household Survey, design the questionnaire, use PDA and census data, and census, statistical manuals and coding processes. Moreover, Population and Social Statistics Department introduced to the students a number of tasks carried out by it on an ongoing basis, such as defining and calculating labor force and demographic indicators, analyzing population table, drawing population pyramid, data dissemination method, and the way of extracting the table from QALM website as well as saving it.  

Furthermore, the students got an idea about how Economic Statistics and National Accounts Department prepare the Gross Domestic Product (GDP); Consumer Prices Index; imports, exports and re-exports statistics; short-term economic indicators, and meet national, regional and international needs for data.

At the end of the training, a festival was held for students, and they were granted practical training certificates.