Short Learning Programme

Data Analytics &
Report Writing

This programme is designed to fulfil the needs of people who need to produce a research proposal for postgraduate level study, and to analyse quantitative and qualitative data sets for producing research reports and dissertations.

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Online
Course

10 weeks

September
2025

Your
Outcomes

 Certificate of Competence

Programme Details

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The programme is offered as a five-day short learning programme. This entails the write-up of proposals and dissertations as well as quantitative methods of data analyses. The statistical package, STATA, will be used for teaching.

After completion of this programme, the delegate should be able to produce research proposals for a postgraduate level study, and perform data entry, manipulation, and analysis in STATA in areas that are related to descriptive statistics, one-sample tests, two-sample tests, chi- square tests of association, the analysis of variance, simple and multiple linear regression analysis, binary and multiple logistic regression analysis and sample size and power calculations.

Programme Outcomes

Programme Outcomes

Programme Outcomes

Programme Outcomes

Programme Outcomes

Programme Outcomes

Programme Outcomes

The following topics will be covered:

• Study designs
• The write-up of postgraduate level research proposals and dissertations
• The calculation of sample sizes and power for quantitative studies
• Summary of raw and grouped data sets using quantitative and graphical methods
• One and two-sample tests on means and proportions
• The Pearson chi-square test of association (cross- tab analyses)
• Simple and multiple linear regression and correlation analysis
• Binary and multinomial logistic regression analysis
• How to use the statistical package STATA for quantitative data analyses

Certification included

  • Who should attend?

    • All researchers and students in the field of sciences, business sciences, entrepreneurial studies, economics, environmental sciences, public health, biostatistics and engineering who wish to acquire basic skills in the use of STATA and the production of research reports and articles.
    • Monitoring and evaluation practitioners and database administrators.
    • University graduates who wish to pursue postgraduate level studies and advanced research activities
    • The short programme is quite valuable to people who need to build capacity for conducting quantitative research and data analyses as well as postgraduate level students and their supervisors.
    • Researchers and postgraduate level students who wish to acquire skills in writing research proposals and dissertations


  • Entry Requirements

    A first degree in the fields of Social Sciences, Business Sciences, Entrepreneurial Studies, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Public Health, Biostatistics and Engineering or equivalent.

  • Delivery Mode

    This programme will be delivered virtual.

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