University of Maryland
Sociology 699J: Surveys in Developing Countries  
Semester Schedule
(preliminary)

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# Date Discussion topic Reading (GG= Grosh and Glewwe;
DHS= Interviewer's manual)
Faculty Student
1 Sept 3 Introduction    
2 Sept 10 HH structure and migration GG ch. 6 and 16; DHS:27-31 Sonal  
3 Sept 17 Employment and Income GG ch. 9 and 17; DHS:89-91 Reeve  /Zsuzsa
4 Sept 24 Consumption and Assets GG ch. 5 and 12; Filmer and Pritchett (pdf 171K) Reeve Guillermo/Kim
5 Oct 1 Education and Schools GG ch. 7; Desai and Alva (pdf 1.675K) Mitali Adam/Koli
6 Oct 8 Health and Medical care GG ch. 8 and 10 ; Sonal  
7 Oct 15 Air pollution and fuel use and Water & sanitation GG ch. 14; Doug  /Shyam
8 Oct 22 Marital and fertility histories GG ch. 15; DHS 50-88 Sonal  
9 Oct 29 Time use and well being GG ch. 22; Mayer and Jencks, and Graham and Pettinato Mitali  
10 Nov 5 Social and Cultural capital   Reeve Natasha/Marcela
11 Nov 12 Gender empowerment GG ch. 24; Sonal Veena
12 Nov 19 other community data GG ch. 13; Doug
13 Nov 26? Integrating qualitative data GG ch. 25;    
14 Dec 3 design and sampling GG ch. 1, 2, and 23; Grosh and Munoz, ch 4.    
15 Dec 10 Evaluating data quality      
  Dec 15 Second paper due    


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Last updated October 22, 2003
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