How to approach a dataset - Part 3: Analysis

This is the third of three notes on how to approach a dataset that emerges from a needs assessment following a disaster. It addresses typical challenges of data analysis. The two companion notes that precede it looks at the database design and the data preparation phase.

The note speaks to typical analysis forms that assessment analysts may consider when data collection and entry were done without the benefit of a pre-existing analysis plan. It demonstrates the analysis forms with data from a real assessment in Bangladesh.