Education and Training Unit

The Education and Training Unit (ETU) is an analysis training centre supporting research on human health, well-being and development, responding to the training and education needs of British Columbia’s researchers.

We offer training courses in three areas:

WORKING WITH POPDATA BC ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

HEALTH GEOMATICS (GIS)

STATISTICS FOR POPULATION HEALTH ANALYSIS

 

In addition to the courses above, additional resources can be found below:

BEST PRACTICES & HOW TO DOCUMENTS


We are able to deliver our courses to researchers around the province using our mobile computer lab. If you are interested in Population Data BC running any of these courses specifically for your organisation, please contact us for further details.




Don't miss our upcoming training sessions:

  • Multi-level Modeling and Longitudinal Analysis, a five day intensive summer session in the summer of 2010 (proposed).
  • Working with Population Data BC ‘s Administrative Data Sets including:
    • Secure Research Environment Training (online)
    • Population Data BC Privacy Training (online)
    • Applying for Population Data BC Data Sets (online)
    • Administrative Data 101 and 201 (online and in-person)

Registration for these sessions is not yet open. Be sure to check this page regularly, so you don't miss out!

For more information please contact us.

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