Data for Effective Policy Making

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30 h
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Syllabus

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Recognize the importance of the relationship between data analysis and decision-making in public management.
  • Define the research problem, the starting hypothesis, the analysis variables and some methods to verify the hypotheses.
  • Identify the methodology that best responds to the problem posed to collect, interpret and analyze the data.
  • Interpret and develop different types of visualizations, using specific examples from the Numbers portal for the Development of a data set.
  • Use data analysis to propose solutions to public policy problems, explain the evaluation of a policy, and to carry out policy planning.

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Norma Palomino
Former Chief of the Information Services Unit (ISU); Knowledge, Innovation and Communications Sector (KIC)
Inter-American Development Bank

Ivette Fis de Melo
Librarian & Knowledge Management Specialist
Inter-American Development Bank

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Inter-American Development Bank

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