XASEC Sources of Economic Data

Moravian Business College Olomouc
winter 2024

The course is not taught in winter 2024

Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Dr. Miroslava Čechová Závadská, BSc., MSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Vít Pászto, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Vít Pászto, Ph.D.
Moravian Business College Olomouc
Supplier department: Moravian Business College Olomouc
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course focuses on the practical use of freely available economic data from Czech and foreign sources. The student gains an overview of the availability of data sets in the field of economics, demography, geography, sociology and other relevant fields. Furthermore, the student understands the data providers’ environment and knows how to use their user interface (data selection, filtering, queries, customisation of output). Apart from that, the student is able to work with data on the basic level in the environment of desktop and online tools.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to production of information and knowledge based on data
  • 2. Open data concept and data formats
  • 3. Czech Statistical Office I
  • 4. Czech Statistical Office II
  • 5. Data sources of ministries (Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Ministry of Regional Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of the Environment, etc.)
  • 6. Sectoral and regional data sources in the Czech Republic
  • 7. Eurostat
  • 8. OECD statistics
  • 9. UN data (UNdata, FAOSTAT)
  • 10. WTO statistics
  • 11. Desktop tools for data processing
  • 12. Online tools for data processing
Literature
    required literature
  • CZECH STATISTICAL OFFICE. Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic – 2019. Praha: Czech Statistical Office, 2019, 831 pp. ISBN 978-80-250-2955-8. info
  • EUROSTAT. Eurostat Regional Yearbook. 2019 ed. Luxembourg: European Union, 2019, 221 pp. ISBN 978-92-76-03505-3. info
  • UNITED NATIONS. Statistical Yearbook 2017 Edition. 6th ed. New York: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, 2017, 510 pp. ISBN 978-92-1-061401-6. info
  • KITCHIN, R. The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences. 1st ed. Sage, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4462-8748-4. info
    recommended literature
  • PÁSZTO, V. et al. Spationomy: Spatial Exploration of Economic Data and Methods of Interdisciplinary Analytics. 1st ed. Springer, 2020, 325 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-26625-7. info
  • WICKHAM, H. Ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. 2nd. ed. Springer, 2016, 1276 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-24277-4. info
    not specified
  • Sources of Data of individual providers: Czech Statistical Office, Ministries of Czech Republic, Eurostat, OECD, United Nations, WTO and others.
Assessment methods
Seminar assignment (80 % of overall grade), active participation in tutorials (20 % of overall grade).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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