Methodological Steps to Collect and Analyse Social Data in Socio Ecological Systems

On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• Understand the methodologies used in the scientific literature
• Design interviews and surveys for addressing specific research goals
• Select adequate graphs to visualize different types of data
• Analyse quantitative data through statistical tests and fir regressions
• Implement case studies that aim to collect and analyse social data in socio-ecological systems

• Description of different methodologies used in the scientific literature. Types of variables to answer different research questions
• Methodological steps to collect social data through interviews and surveys
• Data entry, data cleaning and treatment of missing values
• Data analysis:
  • Diverse ways to visualize data
  • Statistical tests for different types of variables
  • Exploratory Factor Analysis (Factor Analysis and Principal Component Analysis)
  • Regression Analysis (Multiple Linear Regression models, Generalized Linear models and Structural Equation models).