Policy Communication Trainings for PhD Students U.S. Policy Communication Training 2017-18

 

The U.S Policy Communication Training Program builds on the Population Reference Bureau's 40-year legacy of training researchers to communicate their findings for policy change. The program is designed to develop skills that U.S. researchers need to communicate with U.S. policy audiences, including decision makers and the media.

Workshop: Introduction to Survey Sampling U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C.

This workshop will present the main components of survey sampling, with a focus on probability sampling. Participants will learn some basic probability sampling techniques such as simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratification, cluster sampling, and multistage sampling. Participants will also learn about producing estimates of population parameters from sample surveys as a function of sample design and weighting procedures.