This collection includes the 2011 edition of the Course Outline for the Labor Economics course Info 7470.

*Session*	Date (mm/dd) 2011	*Topic*
0	1/18	Introduction to the Teaching Environment
1a	1/25	The Federal Statistical Infrastructure
1b	1/25	Technical Statistical Terminology and Tools: Censuses, Surveys, Administrative Records
LAB 1	1/26-1/31	Finding Sources, Documents, and Data
2a	2/1	Universes, Populations, Frames, and Sampling
2b	2/1	Administrative Records, Frame Maintenance, and Register-based Statistical Systems
LAB 2	2/2-7	Going From Public Use to Underlying Data
3	2/8	Introduction to the Census RDC Proposal Application Process
LAB 3	2/9-14	Starting the Proposal Development Process
4a	2/15	The Decennial Census of Population and Housing
4b	2/15	The Economic Censuses and the Business Register
LAB 4	2/16-2/21	Reviewing a RDC Preliminary Project Proposal
5a	2/22	Household Surveys: The American Community Survey
5b	2/22	Household Surveys: The Current Population Survey, The American Housing Survey
LAB 5	2/23-3/1	Finding Household Surveys and Variables of Interest
6a	3/1	Establishment Surveys
6b	3/1	Health Surveys
LAB 6	3/2-3/7	No lab this week
7a	3/8	Introduction to Integrated Data Systems
7b	3/8	Integrated Data Systems: The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program
LAB 7	3/9-3/14	No Lab
8a	3/15	Statistical Tools: Missing Data Methods
8b	3/15	Statistical Tools: More Missing Data Methods
LAB 8	3/16-3/28	Data Imputation Methods
9a	3/29	Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Basic Geocoding
9b	3/29	GIS: Analysis Methods
LAB 9	3/30-4/4	No Lab
10a	4/5	Statistical Tools: Record Linkage
10b	4/5	Statistical Tools: More Record Linkage
LAB 10	4/6-4/11	Record Linking
11a	4/12	Statistical Tools: Basic Integrated Data Models
11b	4/12	Statistical Tools: Graph-based Data Models
LAB 11	4/13-4/18	Modeling Integrated Data
12a	4/19	Methods of Confidentiality Protection
12b	4/19	Cryptographic and Statistical Advances in Confidentiality Protection
LAB 12	4/20-4/25	Protecting tabular and continuous data
13a	4/26	The Integrated Survey of Program Participation, Social Security Administration, Internal Revenue Service Data (Including Synthetic Versions)
13b	4/26	The Synthethic Longitudinal Business Database
LAB 13	4/27-5/3	(OPTIONAL) Using the synthetic SIPP and/or LBD
14a	5/3	Solutions to Lab
Final	5/20	Take Home Final or RDC Proposal (THIS IS THE DUE DATE)

Session 14a - Solutions to Labs