Specialization in Official Statistics
Cycle
Curso de Pós-graduação
Degree
Not awarded
This path is an option of
ECTS Coordinator
Pedro Miguel Pereira Simões Coelho
Education objectives
The postgraduate program in Statistical Systems, with a specialization in Official Statistics, aims at endowing technical staff and managers who work in the scope of the National Statistical System (NSS), either as producers or as analysts or users of statistical information, the knowledge and skills crucial to the exercise of their activity.
This program, pre-accredited by Eurostat with the EMOS (European Master in Ocial Statistics) seal, offers specialized training in official statistics, particularly in the production of statistics that cover the statistical activity of NSS and of the international organizations of which Portugal is a member.
The program is aimed to employees of the organization that take part of the National Statistical System of Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking countries. The program is also addressed to everyone who is interested in official statistics, including the employees of any other organizations with interests in this field and the general public.
The main goal of this program is training managers and experts to:
- Develop techniques and methodologies of data collection;
- Master the tools and processes used for the storage, organization and access to information in an entity with responsibility for the compilation of statistics;
- Apply the statistical and computational methodologies and tools, for exploration and analysis of information, to produce official statistics that can add value for decision making;
- Communicate results, in written form and orally, adapting them to the level and specific interests of the audience.
Applications
To complete the application, the applicant must register in NOVA IMS' Applications Portal, fill the form, upload their Curriculum Vitae and submit the application in the end, from February 2nd to March 24th, 2016. The selection process is based on the analysis of the applicant's academic and professional curriculum, and an interview.
Access conditions
<p> The requirements for the applications are: </p> <p>A degree in a compatible field;</p> <p>Analysis of the applicants' academic and professional curriculum;</p> <p>Interview conducted by the Admissions' Jury Panel.</p>
Degree pre-requisites
The program offers 15 elective course units, which correspond to 90 ECTS. To earn the postgraduate program diploma, students must complete 60 ECTS, which correspond to 10 course units. Students can enroll in a maximum of 12 course units, in a total of 72 ECTS.
Access to other courses
The postgraduate program gives access to the master degree program in Statistics and Information Management, with a specialization in Information Analysis and Management, upon the development and presentation of a scholarly thesis, or work project or undertake an internship (subject of a final report) and the approval of the course unit Research Methodologies.
Evaluation rules
Structure
| 1º year - Autumn semester | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| Options | ||
| 200083 | Marketing Digital | 1.0 |
| 400001 | Applied Econometrics and Forecasting | 6.0 |
| 400004 | Business Intelligence - Datawarehousing | 6.0 |
| 400005 | Computational Statistics I | 6.0 |
| 400007 | Databases Management | 6.0 |
| 400012 | Management of Statistical Systems | 6.0 |
| 400013 | Multivariate Data Analysis | 1.0 |
| 400015 | Sampling and Estimation | 6.0 |
| 400017 | Statistics of Central Banks | 6.0 |
| 1º year - Spring semester | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| Options | ||
| 200007 | Architectures for Information Technology | 7.5 |
| 400003 | Business Intelligence - Analytics | 6.0 |
| 400006 | National Accounts | 6.0 |
| 400008 | Computational Statistics II | 6.0 |
| 400010 | Inquiry Methods | 6.0 |
| 400014 | Financial Reporting | 6.0 |
| 400016 | Research Seminar | 6.0 |
| 400018 | Statistical Treatment of Data | 6.0 |
| 400023 | Leadership and People Management | 6.0 |