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Michael C.

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Statistics, Research and Data Analysis Consultant and Tutor

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About

A Statistics, Research and data Analysis Consultant and Tutor with more than 10 years experience in statistics, research and data analysis tutoring, a masters degree in social statistics and a high level of proficiency in the use of SAS, STATA, R and SPSS for the analysis of quantitative data.

Location

Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya

Language

English, Swahili

Timezone

America/Toronto

Levels

College/University
Professional

Education

University of Nairobi

2017 - 2022
Masters of Science, Social Statistics

Kenya Institute of Management

2013 - 2014
Postgraduate Diploma, Project Management

University of Nairobi

2007 - 2011
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics

Work Experience

Self-Employed

January 2014 - present
Statistics, Research and Data Analysis Consultant and Tutor
o Guiding clients on designing research studies and developing data collection tools. o Guiding clients on processing and analyzing data collected for business and social research projects to generate required findings. o Guiding clients on generating reports from the findings of research projects for publication and presentation in conferences. o Providing technical support to clients on ethical standards required for their business or social research projects. o Assisting clients to recruit respondents for their social and business research projects. o Assisting clients to administer surveys (either online or offline), conducted interviews and moderated focus group discussions for collection of required data.

Infinite Insight Limited, Nairobi, Kenya

January 2012 - November 2014
Research Assistant/Fieldwork Manager
o Supporting development of questionnaires and interview and focus group discussion guides to ensure quality, validity, reliability and meeting of industry standards. o Monitoring and evaluating fieldwork to ensure compliance with industry’s standards and ethical requirements. o Planning project logistics and coordinated project office and fieldwork activities. o Recruiting, training, deploying and supervising fieldwork staffs. o Evaluating costs of fieldwork to ensure efficient use of resources and quality of collected data through callbacks and analysis of GPS data using ARCGIS. o Analyzing collected data to check quota achievements, distribution and presence of outliers. o Visiting project sites to mentor fieldwork staffs on approaches that could improve efficiency and effectiveness in collection of data required for the research study. o Working with other members of the project team to identify and document achievements and gaps in the undertaken business or social research projects.

ACNielsen Limited, Nairobi, Kenya

July 2010 - October 2010
Research Attachee
o Participating in the development of data collection tools like questionnaires, showcards and briefing notes. o Following sampling plan to recruit survey or interview respondents. o Administering questionnaires, conducting interviews and moderating focus group discussions. o Tallying data to ensure all that are important groups are adequately represented. o Editing questionnaires to ensure completeness, logical flow and following of skip patterns. o Undertaking callbacks to confirm quality of data collected during a survey. o Coding of responses obtained for open ended questions in a survey and transcribing interviews and focus group discussions. o Entering data collected through surveys into Epi Data, CS Pro or QPSMR.