- The data sources: data classifications, population census, civil status, population register, statistical surveys, definition of the collection unit, statistical surveys, methods and techniques for collecting statistical units (face-to-face, telephone, postal) and questionnaire.
- Data sources on international migration.
- The planning of a research: the techniques for collecting statistical units, probabilistic and non-probabilistic sampling.
- Data collection and processing: data collection and classification, tabulation of results, grouping of data into classes, relative frequencies, cumulative frequencies, cumulative relative frequencies, graphical representation, average values, statistical ratios, rates and probabilities.
- The main Italian sample surveys: sampling design, non-response, multi-purpose survey system, Labour Force Survey, Household Consumption and Poverty Survey, European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (Eu-Silc).
- Some probability distributions: Bernoulli v.c., binomial, hypergeometric, sample distribution of mean, relative frequency, median.
- Statistical inference: conceptual aspects.
- Punctual estimates: concepts, properties of the estimators, average estimates, variance and relative frequency in case of Bernoullian sampling, without repetition, the estimate of frequency of randomized answers by incorrelated question.
- The interval estimation: confidence intervals for mean, frequency and variance in the case of small and large samples.
- The sample size: calculation of sample size in case of inference on averages and frequencies.
- Verification of hypothesis with a sample: identification of tests, test requirements, test steps, examples of hypothesis verification, verification of functional hypotheses in the case of large and small samples.
- Measurement of dependency relationships in the case of two or more variables: simple and multiple linear regression.

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- For those who do not attend classes:

F. Delvecchio, Statistica per la ricerca sociale, ed. 2004, Cacucci editore, Bari, cap. 1 – cap. 2 (paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4) – cap. 3 – cap. 4 (paragraphs 1, 2) – cap. 6 – cap. 7 – cap. 8 – cap. 9 – cap. 10 – cap. 11 - cap. 12 (paragraphs 1, 2, 3), cap. 14:
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Egidi, V. & Ferruzza, A. (eds.) (2009). Navigando tra le fonti demografiche e sociali. Sistema Statistico Nazionale, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (cap. 1, 2, 3, 4): http://omero.farm.unipi.it/matdidFarm/131/Navigando_tra_le_fonti_demografiche_sociali.pdf