The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Timor-Leste together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organize a three-day training to strengthen statistical skills among ACC staff in the use of the Statistical Package of Social Science as a tool to analyze data relevant to the Commission’s work.

Participants in the three-day training  include Management and the staff of Education, Campaign and Research Units.In the training, participants learn some basic materials including the history of SPSS and its evolution, how to import data, structure data, data cleaning, data transfer, relations between variables, cross tabulation, and output data process.

It is expected that this capacity development intervention will contribute to strengthen analytical capacity in particular, knowledge and skills in utilizing SPSS tools of the ACC’s staff especially staff of the Directorate of Education, Campaign and Research in conducting research, presenting and analyzing data.

The half-day three-day training will end on 25 April 2012.