Welcome to our Courses and Workshops page. This section is dedicated to providing information about the various educational opportunities offered by our research group, such as materials or registration links.

The data quality group teaches annual courses in the Utrecht Summer School. The courses take place in the second half of August. They are offered in-person on 5 consecutive days. Housing, and a social programme are  offered too. Utrecht is lovely in summer, so if interested please follow the links below to detailed information.

Advanced Survey Design

This five-day course in survey design takes students beyond the introductory courses offered in BA and MA programmes, and discusses current issues in one of the most important data collection methods: surveys. Specifically, it focuses on doing surveys in the Internet-era. It will show how to collect data in online surveys, using smartphones, and mixing surveys with Big data, such as digital behavioral data, smartphone sensors or administrative data. It combines short one-hour lectures with exercises on most of the topics discussed. Course participants must be proficient in working with statistical software. Course materials are prepared for working with R.

We present new ways to analyse modern surveys, including non-probability survey designs, smartphone data collection, digital trace data and data collected via apps. Course participants must be proficient working with the statistical software package R at the level of at least knowing Tidy and multivariate regression in R.