| Sources of social and economic data. Problems of data collection and interpretation. Principles of statistical measurement. Techniques for ensuring validity, reproducibility, comparability. Problems of measurement in specific areas such as productivity, poverty, crime etc. Gini coefficient: Properties, Uses, Limitations and disaggregation. Alternative Inequality measures. Price, Wage and other Indices. Methodology of Economic and Social Indicators, simple and composite: Construction, Interpretation and Uses. The measurement of emerging economic and social concerns such as the non observed economy, business confidence, pollution and environmental degradation, gender equity. |
Administrative assistant: DILMAHOMED BOCUS Bibi Swaleha
Telephone: 4037400
Email: s.dilmahomed@uom.ac.mu |
