Data analysis
Ashwin has used administrative and survey data for an extremely wide range of analyses. At the Department for Work and Pensions, he was an expert user of the Family Resources Survey and Labour Force Survey, and of the Lifetime Labour Market Database, a 1% sample of lifetime National Insurance records. He developed particular expertise in discrete choice econometrics, and used panel data models for analysis of longitudinal data.
He has used a range of data analysis software, including SAS (to a high level), Stata and SPSS and is an expert user of Excel. |