1. EC1006 IT for Economists Tutor: Jarir Ajluni jnja1@le.ac.uk Computer Classes Presentations

2. EC1006 IT for Economists Class 1 Week 5

3. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Essential Links Our Department  http://www.le.ac.uk/economicshttp://www.le.ac.uk/economics The Library  www.le.ac.uk/liwww.le.ac.uk/li Major information resources for Economics  http://www.le.ac.uk/li/sources/subject7/lisuecon.htmlhttp://www.le.ac.uk/li/sources/subject7/lisuecon.html

4. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Favourites Adding to your Favourites Simply click on ‘Favourites’ in the internet explorer menu then click ‘Add to favourites’ Creating a Folder in Favourites: Then we can add websites to the folder within Favourites ‘Create Folder’ ‘Favourites’ ‘Organise favourites’

5. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 ESDS Economic and Social Data Service  http://www.esds.ac.ukhttp://www.esds.ac.uk ESDS Data:  Government: large scale Gov surveys.  International: international Macro and Micro data.  Longitudinal.  Qualidata: qualitative data.

6. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 ESDS International  www.esds.ac.uk/international/introduction.aspwww.esds.ac.uk/international/introduction.asp Includes databases of the international development organisations: 1. UN common database. 2. World Bank (World Development Indicators). 3. IMF (IFS, DOTS & BOPS). 4. UNIDO, OECD and 5. Office of National Statistics (ONS) of the UK.

7. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 ESDS International World Bank  www.worldbank.org/data www.worldbank.org/data IMF  Balance of payments Statistics (BOPS)  International Financial Statistics (IFS)  World Economic Outlook Database, directly from http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2004/ 02/data/dbginim.cfm http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2004/ 02/data/dbginim.cfm

8. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 ESDS Gov ESDS Government  www.esds.ac.uk/government www.esds.ac.uk/government 1.General Household Survey 2.Labour Force Survey

9. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 ESDS Gov  General Household Survey ‘Geographic focus’ ‘ESDS Gov’ ‘Access Data’ Choose ‘Scotland’ as we are redirected to UK data archive www.data-archive.ac.ukwww.data-archive.ac.uk

10. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 ESDS Gov  Labour Force Survey ‘major studies’ ‘ESDS Gov’ ‘Labour Force Statistics’ ‘Access Data’ Choose ‘Labour Force Survey’ as we are redirected – again- to UK data archive www.data-archive.ac.ukwww.data-archive.ac.uk Alternative: the Office of National Statistics (ONS) www.statistics.gov.uk

11. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 EC1006 IT for Economists Class 2 Week 6

12. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 e-journals JSTOR  http://www.jstor.org/browse#economicshttp://www.jstor.org/browse#economics Science Direct  www.sciencedirect.com/science/journals/economicswww.sciencedirect.com/science/journals/economics Ingenta Expanded Academic ASAP Business Source Premier & many other providers all available from: Leicester Digital Library > e-journals > search by provider  http://www.le.ac.uk/li/sources/ejournal http://www.le.ac.uk/li/sources/ejournal

13. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Research Institutions Our Department’s Discussion Papers  www.le.ac.uk/economics/research/dpseries.html www.le.ac.uk/economics/research/dpseries.html CeDEx Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics  www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/cedexwww.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/cedex IZA Institute for the study of Labor, University of Bonn  www.iza.orgwww.iza.org

14. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Research Institutions CEPR Centre for Economic Policy Research  www.cepr.org/pubs www.cepr.org/pubs NIESR National Institute of Economic & Social Research  www.niesr.ac.uk www.niesr.ac.uk NBER National Bureau of Economic Research  www.nber.org/paperswww.nber.org/papers

15. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Research Institutions CID Centre for International Development  www.cid.harvard.eduwww.cid.harvard.edu Economic Growth Centre Yale University  www.econ.yale.edu/~egcenter www.econ.yale.edu/~egcenter CSAE Centre for the Study of African Economies  www.csae.ox.ac.ukwww.csae.ox.ac.uk

16. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Research Institutions ISER Institute for Social Social and Economic Research  www.iser.essex.ac.ukwww.iser.essex.ac.uk IFS Institute of Fiscal Studies  www.ifs.org.uk/workingpapers www.ifs.org.uk/workingpapers

17. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 EC1006 IT for Economists Class 3 Week 7

18. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 MS Word Tracking Changes ‘Highlight Changes’‘Tools’ ‘Track Changes’ Headers/Footers ‘View’ ‘Header and Footer’ Footnotes/Endnotes ‘Insert’ ‘Footnote…’

19. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 EC1006 IT for Economists Class 6 & 7 Weeks 10-11 Class 6 & 7 Weeks 1

20. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Regression Analysis The Model simple model (single variable regression) or more complicated model (multiple regression)

21. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Regression Analysis The Data Plotting the data on X,Y could be useful to understand the nature of the relationship between X & Y, but is that enough?

22. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Regression Analysis

23. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Regression Analysis

24. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Regression Analysis

25. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Microfit 4.0 Main Windows in Microfit 4.0

26. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Microfit 4.0 About Microfit 4.0 Disadvantages: 1.Very unstable software (crashes very often). 2.Poor graphing & formatting of Output. Advantages: 1.Command driven but not “case sensitive”. 2.Advanced Econometric/Statistical Analysis.

27. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Microfit 4.0 Commands in Microfit 4.0 Commands: Either typed or selected from list. includes direct commands for scatter plots, Histograms & correlation Examples: scatter X Y Xplot wage age Cor X Y Z … Then click on: Go

28. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Microfit 4.0 Functions in Microfit 4.0 Functions: Either typed or selected from list. Standard mathematical functions & specified “typed-in” (similar to MS-Excel) Example: Creating a natural log Generic form: y = log (X) Lnwage = LOG (wage) (creates a natural log for variable wage)

29. EC1006 IT for Economists Classes 1-2 Weeks 5-6 Submission Email to : econmarking@le.ac.uk including: in the subject line: Your name, your ID #, & my name [ Jarir Ajluni ] In your mail message: Your answers (Microfit & STATA commands) Attachments: Excel file (.xls), Microfit file (.fit), STATA (.dta) STATA “Do” file (.do) is a plus!