Theme: Migration, Health, and Socioeconomic Integration in Chile
How did Chile go from roughly 2% foreign-born in 2002 to over 8% in 2024? Where do immigrants settle, what work do they find, and do their health outcomes differ from those of Chilean-born residents? This trimester teams of two will weave together three official datasets (Census 2024 microdata, ENO notifiable-disease surveillance, and GRD hospital discharge records) into a coherent analytical narrative. Each team is assigned a set of one to three comunas (mostly Región Metropolitana) and builds a complete pipeline: demographic profiling, disease surveillance, hospital discharge analysis, spatial mapping, and ecological regression at the comuna level.
Key facts
| Trimester | March 2 to April 30, 2026 |
| First class | Thursday, March 5, 2026 |
| Class times | Thursdays 12:30 to 13:40, Fridays 11:10 to 13:40 |
| Modality | Online / streaming (a few in-person sessions, marked on the schedule) |
| Certamen week | April 13 to 18 (no class) |
| Final in-person memo | Friday, June 5, 2026 |
| Instructor | Leo Ferres, [email protected] |
| TAs | Antuan Vayisqui, Alan Spikin |
| Total points | 70 (10 participation + 35 tareas + 25 final project) |
| Teams | 21 pairs, each assigned one to three comunas |
Quicklinks
- Syllabus: full course description, learning outcomes, grading.
- Schedule: week-by-week topics and deliverables.
- Assignments: Tareas 0 to 3 and Quiz 1 (PDF + Markdown downloads).
- Final project: one anomaly, defended.
- Data: Census 2024, ENO, GRD: where to download, what each contains.
- Resources: readings, tools, walkthrough scripts, slides.
- Groups: team / comuna assignments.
A full PDF of the syllabus is available here. For previous instantiations, see the parent course page.