ECON212-10S1 (C) Semester One 2010

Economic Statistics

11 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2010
End Date: Sunday, 27 June 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 5 March 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 21 May 2010

Description

Presentation and use of economic data. Index numbers and seasonal adjustment and the business cycle.

This course will cover statistical procedures applicable for the analysis of economic data, will access statistical sources and apply statistical techniques. The objective is to make students familiar with common economic statistic sources; the popular techniques applied to them and give an understanding of their properties and limitations. While the course does provide a lead-in to the second semester course ECON213: “An Introduction to Econometrics” you should view the material covered here as being an integral part of your overall Economics programme.

Content: Summary statistics, higher order moments, analysis of bivariate series. Index number theory and applications. Introduction to time series analysis with applications to financial statistics. Sampling theory with applications to regression analysis. Accessing on-line statistical information on the New Zealand: the Census. Accessing on-line international statistical information from the OECD and World Bank. Survey data: introduction to techniques and issues of reliability.

Prerequisites

(1) ECON104 or ECON105; (2) 15 points from STAT courses or MSCI110

Timetable Note

There will be one tutorial per week in addition to lectures.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Robin Harrison

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 15%
Final Exam 65%
Term Test 20%

Textbooks / Resources

There is no prescribed text for the course although students are expected to have access to a text which they used for the prerequisite statistics course.

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $435.00

International fee $1,862.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

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