This collection includes the 2005 edition of the Course Outline for the Labor Economics course Info 7470.

*Session*	Date (mm/dd) 2005	*Topic*
1a	1/25	Introduction
1b	1/25	Data Everywhere
LAB 1	1/26-1/31	Finding Sources, Documents, and Data
2a	2/1	Objectives of Public and Private Data Collection
2b	2/1	Confidentiality, Privacy and the Ethics of Social Data
LAB 2	2/2-7	Going From Public Use to Underlying Data
3a	2/8	The U.S. Statistical Infrastructure
3b	2/8	International Statistical Infrastructure
LAB 3	2/9-14	Comparing Economic Data from Official Sources
4a	2/15	Populations and Sampling Frames
4b	2/15	Sampling Frame Maintenance
LAB 4	2/16-2/21	Basic Statistical Tools
5a	2/22	Business Censuses
5b	2/22	Household Censuses
Lab 5		No Lab
6a	3/1	Using Data from Household Samples
6b	3/1	Using Data from Business Samples
LAB 6	3/2-3/7	Using Data from Business and Household Censuses
7a	3/8	Analyzing Frames and Samples with Missing Data
7b	3/8	General Methods for Missing Data
LAB 7	3/9-3/14	Probabilistic Cross Walks and Industry Data
8a	3/15	Multiple Imputation, I
8b	3/15	Multiple Imputation, II
LAB 8	3/16-3/28	Missing Data Analysis Using Multiple Imputation
9a	3/29	Discussion of Labs 4-8
9b	3/29	Introduction to Probabilistic Record Linking
LAB 9	3/30-4/4	Synthetic Census Data
10a	4/5	Probabilistic Record Linking II
10b	4/5	Applications of Record Linking
LAB 10	4/6-4/11	Record Linking
11a	4/12	Statistical Tools for Data Integration
11b	4/12	Modeling Integrated Data
LAB 11	4/13-4/18	Modeling Integrated Data
12a	4/19	Methods of Confidentiality Protection
12b	4/19	Recent Advances in Confidentiality Protection
LAB 12	4/20-4/25	Synthetic Economic Data
13a	4/26	Assessing Data Quality
13b	4/26	Overview of the Proposal Application Process at Census
LAB 13	4/27-5/3	Preliminary Proposals and Predominant Purpose Statements
14a	5/4	The Census Proposal Review and Implementation Process
14b	5/4	Wrap up
LAB 14	5/5-5/12	Take Home Final

Session 09 - Lab 09 - Synthetic Census Data