Symposium 2002: Modelling survey data for social and economic research

Chair: Barry Graubard, NCHS, United States

Comparison of Design-Based and Model — Based Methods in Analyzing Complex Health Survey Data:
A Case Study
Risto Lehtonen, Kari Djerf, Johanna Laiho and Tommi Härkänen, University of Jyväskylä, Statistics
Finland, National Institute of Public Health, Finland

Interval Censoring of Smoking Cessation in the National Population Health Survey
Mary E. Thompson, University of Waterloo, Canada

Association Between Income Adequacy and Asthma Prevalence in Canadians
Yue Chen, Mei Tang, Daniel Krewski and Robert Dales, University of Ottawa, Canada

Application of the Delete-a-Group Jackknife Variance Estimator to Analyses of Data from a Complex Longitudinal Survey
Julia L. Bienias, Philip S. Kott and Denis A. Evans, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center,
Chicago, IL, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Washington, DC, United States

Chair: John Kovar, Statistics Canada, Canada

Multiple Imputation of Missing Income Data at the Individual and Family Levels Using Sequential Regression Imputation: Application to the National Health Interview Survey
Trivellore E. Raghunathan, Nathaniel Schenker, Pei-Lu Chiu and Diane Makuc, University of Michigan
and NCHS, United States

Examples of Multiple Imputation in Large-scale Surveys
Nicholas T. Longford, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK and ONS, London, United Kingdom

Area-Level Models Using Data from Multiple Surveys
Sharon L. Lohr, Lynn M.R. Ybarra, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States

Obtaining Cancer Risk Factor Prevalence Estimates in Small Areas
Michael Elliott, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Chair: Gary Catlin, Statistics Canada, Canada

A Comparison of Approaches to Modelling Health and the Environment
Sandra A. Ham, Michelle M. Yore, Peter Mariolis, CDCP, Atlanta, U.S.A.

Does the Region You Live in Make a Difference for Your Health?
Stéphane Tremblay, Nancy Ross and Jean-Marie Berthelot, Statistics Canada, Canada

Simulation Study to Assess the Precision of the Two- stage Cluster Survey for Injection Safety
Stacy Hoshaw-Woodard, Stanley Lemeshow, Meng Chen, Ohio State U., U.S.A.

Modelling the Impacts of Colorectal Cancer Screening in Canada using POHEM
William Flanagan, Jean-Marie Berthelot, Christel LePetit, Kathleen White, Ann Coombs, Elaine Jones-McLean, Statistics Canada, Health Canada, Canada

Chair: Georgia Roberts, Statistics Canada, Canada

Performing Logistic Regression on Survey Data with the New SURVEYLOGISTIC Procedure
Anthony An, SAS Institute Inc., U.S.A.

The Analysis Of Survey Data Using Stata: Some Recent Developments
Roberto G. Gutierrez, and Jeffrey S. Pitblado, Stata Corporation, U.S.A.

Chair: Gustave Goldmann, Statistics Canada, Canada

Bridging Multiple-Race Responses in the U.S. Census to Single-Race Categories for the Calculation of Vital Rates
Nathaniel Schenker, Jennifer D. Parker, and Deborah D. Ingram, NCHS, U.S.A.

Long-term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence From Administrative Records in Colombia
Joshua Angrist, Eric Bettinger and Michael Kremer, MIT, Case Western U., Harvard U., U.S.A.

An Investigation Into the Development and Testing of a Methodology for Updating Census Indicators
M. Yar, N. Higgins, P. Clarke and P. Heady, ONS, U.K.

Chair: Claude Poirier, Statistics Canada, Canada

WesVar: Software for Analyzing Data from Complex Surveys
G. Hussain Choudhry and Richard Valliant, Westat Inc., USA

A System for Variance Estimation Due to Non- Response and Imputation (SEVANI)
Jean-François Beaumont and Charles Mitchell, Statistics Canada, Canada

Chair: Jack Gambino, Statistics Canada, Canada

Covariance Structure Modelling with Complex Survey Data
Chris Skinner, U. of Southampton, U.K.

Using IRT and Factor Scores in Regression and Other Analyses: A Review
D. Roland Thomas, Bruno D. Zumbo and Irene R. R. Lu, Carleton U., U. of B. C., Canada

Analysis of Dose — Response Relationships on Complex Survey Data
David Judkins, Paul Zador and Varma Nadimpalli, WESTAT, U.S.A.

Inferences for Finite Populations Using Multiple Data Sources With Different Reference Times
Stephen E. Fienberg and Alan Zaslavsky, Carnegie Mellon U., Harvard U., U.S.A.

Chair: Geoff Hole, Statistics Canada, Canada

Optimal Calibration Estimators in Survey Sampling
Changbao Wu, U. of Waterloo, Canada

Regression Estimators for the 2001 Canadian Census
Mike Bankier, Statistics Canada

In Search of Optimal Survey Designs
Paul W. Ludington, Bureau of the Census, U.S.A.

Accuracy Estimation with Clustered Dataset
Jean-Hughes Chauchat, Ricco Rakotomalala and François Pellegrino, ERIC Laboratory and Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, U. de Lyon, France

Chair: Miles Corak, Statistics Canada, Canada

Linking Family Recomposition with Children’s Living Arrangement After Parental Separation
Heather Juby, Benoît Laplante, Céline Le Bourdais and Nicole Marcil Gratton, CIED and INRS / U. de Montréal, Canada

Longitudinal Analysis of Labour Force Survey Data
Geoff Rowe and Huan Nguyen, Statistics Canada, Canada

Provincial Differences in High School Achievement: Do Schools Matter?
Darren Lauzon and Miles Corak, Statistics Canada, Canada

Bias Reduction in Standard Errors for Linear and Generalized Linear Models With Multi-stage Samples
Dan McCaffrey, RAND, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

Chair: Bruno Zumbo, U. of B. C., Canada

A Causal Event History Approach to Interrelated Family Events
Hans- Peter Blossfeld and Melinda Mills, Otto-Friedrich U. Bamberg, Germany and Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Modelling and Analysis of Duration Data from Longitudinal Surveys
Jerry Lawless and Christian Boudreau, U. of Waterloo, Canada

Analyzing Developmental Trajectories: An Overview of a Group-based Approach
Daniel S. Nagin and Richard E. Tremblay , Carnegie Mellon U., USA, U. de Montréal, Canada

Another Look at the Regression Discontinuity Design
Erich Battistin and Enrico Rettore, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, U.K. and U. of Padova, Italy

Chair: Fritz Scheuren, U.S.A.

Use of the Qualitative Business and Consumers Survey for Analysis and Economic Modelling
Dominique Ladiray, Gian Luigi Mazzi, Eurostat, Luxembourg

The Dynamics of Income in Four Countries
Miles Corak, Wen-Hao Chen, and Abdelatif Demnati, Statistics Canada, Canada, Carleton U., Canada, U. of Michigan, U.S.A

Chair: Chris Skinner, U. of Southampton, U.K.

Analysis of Complex Survey Data Using Inverse Sampling
J.N.K. Rao, A.J. Scott and E. Benhin, Carleton U., Canada, U. of Auckland, New Zealand, and Statistics Canada, Canada

Some Flexible Regression Techniques for Complex Surveys
D.R. Bellhouse, H. Chipman and J.E. Stafford, U. of Western Ontario, U.of Toronto, Canada

Use of Generalized Variance Function Models in Inference from Social and Economic Survey Data
J. L. Eltinge, D. S. Jang, M.J. Cho, B.L.S, Mathematica Policy Research, U.S.A.