Symposium 2003: Challenges in survey taking for the next decade

Organizer and Chair: Johanne Denis, Statistics Canada, Canada

Dealing with Movers in a Longitudinal Survey of Children
J.M. Brick, and Thanh Lê, Westat and Jerry West, National Center for Education Statistics, United States

The Weight Share Method and the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions
Pascal Ardilly, INSEE, France and Pierre Lavallée, Statistics Canada, Canada

Tracing and Non-Response Adjustment for the Longidutinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada
Michelle Simard, Tracy Leesti and Johanne Denis, Statistics Canada, Canada

Organizer and Chair: Geoff Bowlby, Statistics Canada, Canada

The Coverage of Population in Census 2000: Challenges in Measurement
J. Gregory Robinson and Donna L. Kostanich, United States Census Bureau, United States

2006 Census Data Capture Redesign
Jean-René Boudreau, Statistics Canada, Canada and Timothy Withum, Lockheed Martin, United States

Evaluation and Adjustment for Nonresponse in the Canadian Labour Force Survey
Asma Alavi and Jean-François Beaumont, Statistics Canada, Canada

Organizer: M.P. Singh, Statistics Canada, Canada
Chair: Sharon Lohr, Arizona State University, United States

Replication Variance Estimation for the Two-Phase National Resources Inventory
Wayne A. Fuller, Iowa State University, United States

Variance Estimation in Two-Phase Sampling
M.A. Hidiroglou, Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom and J.N.K. Rao, Carleton University, Canada

A Plan for Coordinating Surveys at the National Agricultural Statistics Service
Phillip S. Kott, National Agricultural Statistics Service, United States

Chair: Anil Arora, Statistics Canada, Canada

Breaking New Ground in Data Collection: Electronic Data Reporting at Statistics Canada
Pamela Best, Statistics Canada, Canada

International Adoption of Questionnaire Development, Evaluation and Testing Methods in Establishment Surveys
Diane Willimack, United States Census Bureau, United States and Frances van den Enden, Statistics Canada, Canada

Research and Analysis to Better Understand Data Collection Activities
Judy Lee and Tony LaBillois, Statistics Canada, Canada

What Was the Question? Methods for Monitoring the Quality of Interviewing Techniques
Kristina Ahlen, Research Triangle Institute, United States

Conceptual Model for the Definitional Metadata of a Statistical Agency
Kaveri Mechanda, Paul Johanis and Michael Webber, Statistics Canada, Canada

Organizer: Wesley Yung, Statistics Canada, Canada
Chair: Richard Carter, Statistics Canada, Canada

2006 Census of Canada: Strategic Directions and Issues
Anil Arora, Statistics Canada, Canada

The Reengineered 2010 Census
Preston J. Waite, United States Census Bureau, United States

The Use of Mobile Computing Devices for Data Collection: Challenges for Implementing Field Operations
Gail A. Leithauser, United States Census Bureau, United States

Organizer and Chair: Jean-Louis Tambay, Statistics Canada, Canada

Statistical Disclosure Control for Tables: Determining which Method to Use
Paul B. Massell, United States Census Bureau, United States

Applications of Statistical Disclosure Control Methods
Eric Schulte Nordholt, Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands

Regression Servers for Confidential Data
Shanti Gomatam, Alan Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Jerome Reiter, Duke University and Ashish Sanil, National Institute of Statistical Sciences

Organizers: Benoit Quenneville and Dominique Ladiray
Chair: Dominique Ladiray

Seasonal Adjustment of Short Series
Gian Luigi Mazzi and Giovanni Savio, Eurostat

Some Properties of the Seasonal Adjustment Diagnostics in X−12−ARIMA
Catherine C. Hood and Roxanne M. Feldpausch, United States Census Bureau, United States

Adjustment of Seasonally Adjusted Series to Annual Totals
Benoit Quenneville, Guy Huot, Pierre Chollette and Kim Chiu, Statistics Canada, Canada and Tommaso Di Fonzo, Università di Padova

Organizer and Chair: Edward Chen, Statistics Canada, Canada

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Paula Fedeski-Koundakjian, Statistics Canada, Canada

Developing Statistical Literacy in Youth: Statistics Canada’s Education Outreach Program
Mary Townsend, Statistics Canada, Canada

CensusAtSchool: Collecting and Disseminating Real Data for Real Learning
Neville Davies and Doreen Connor, Royal Statistical Society, Centre for Statistical Education, United Kingdom

Organizer: M.P. Singh, Statistics Canada, Canada
Chair: Graham Kalton, Westat, United States

Future Challenges for Methodology for Official Statistics
Tim Holt, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Organizer and Chair: Georgia Roberts, Statistics Canada, Canada

Use of Sparse-Effect Models to Characterize Bias-Efficiency Trade-Offs in the Analysis of Complex Survey Data
John L. Eltinge, United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States

Semiparametric Regression Techniques for Complex Survey Data
Zilin Wang and David Bellhouse, University of Western Ontario, Canada

A Design-Based Procedure for the Analysis of Experiments Embedded in Complex Sample Surveys
Jan A. van den Brakel, Statistics Netherlands

Chair: Marie Brodeur, Statistics Canada, Canada

BRFSS Re-Weighting for Child Estimates
Luhua Zhao, Hank Wells and Glen Laird, Research Triangle Institute

Weighting Method used in the French "Construction des identités" Survey
Pascal Ardilly, INSEE, France

Estimating Fixed Effects and Variance Components in a Random Intercept Model Using Survey Data
Yong You, Statistics Canada, J.N.K. Rao, Carleton University, and Milorad Kovacevic, Statistics Canada, Canada

Measurement of Health Care Utilization in Canada: Agreement Between Surveys and Administrative Records
JoAnne Palin and Bruno Zumbo, University of British Columbia, Canada

Reporting on the Quality of Seasonal Adjustment Process at the Statistical Office for the European Commission
Jean-Marc Museux, Office Statistique des Communautés Européennes, and Nina Jukic, National Statistical Institute of Slovenia

Organizer and Chair: Don Royce, Statistics Canada, Canada

Use of Tax Data: An Application of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Data
Marie Brodeur and Louis Pierre, Statistics Canada, Canada

Providing a Global Picture
Denise Lievesley, Institute for Statistics, UNESCO

To Turn Over or Not to Turn Over? Combining Registrations and Probability Models on Surveys to Estimate the Activity Status of Enterprises
Jacques P.G. Janssen and Martin J. G. Luppes, Statistics Netherlands

Organizer and Chair: Pierre Lavallée, Statistics Canada, Canada

Combining Information from Multiple Surveys Through the Empirical Likelihood Method
Changbao Wu, University of Waterloo, Canada

Implementing New Statistical Techniques
Richard Valliant, University of Michigan, United States

CALMAR 2: A New Version of the CALMAR Calibration Adjustment Program
Olivier Sautory, ENSAE/CREST

Organizer and Chair: Gordon Brackstone, Statistics Canada, Canada

Commitments to Survey Improvement: Making Them Real with New Tools
Fritz Scheuren and Steven Pedlow, NORC

Making Data Quality Visible in Practice
Frank Yu, Australian Bureau of Statistics

Using Quality and Risk to Determine Investment in Official Statistics
Frank Nolan, Office of National Statistics, United Kingdom

Organizer and Chair: Jack Gambino, Statistics Canada, Canada

Producing Small Area Estimates from National Surveys: Methods for Minimizing Use of Indirect Estimators
David Marker, Westat

Developing Small Area Estimates in the UK : A Practitioner’s Perspective
Marta Haworth and Marie Cruddas, Office of National Statistics, United Kingdom

Practical Issues in Model-Based Small Area Estimation
J.N.K. Rao, Carleton University, Canada

Organizer and Chair: Harold Mantel, Statistics Canada, Canada

Resampling Methods for MSE Estimation with Nonlinear Small Area Models
Sharon Lohr, Arizona State University, United States and J.N.K. Rao, Carleton University, Canada

An Alternate Methodology for Estimating Variance Components
G. Hussain Choudhry, Gary Shapiro, Varma Nadimpalli and Joseph Croos, Westat

Inference for Totals in Cluster Sampling Under Mean Imputation for Missing Data
David Haziza, Statistics Canada, Canada and J.N.K. Rao, Carleton University, Canada

Organizer and Chair: Eric Rancourt, Statistics Canada, Canada

A Dual-Frame Estimation Approach for Surveys with Nonresponse Follow-Up
Avinash C. Singh, Vincent G. Iannacchione and Jill A. Dever, RTI International

New Approaches to Editing and Imputation : Selected Results and Experiences from the EUREDIT Project
Ray Chambers, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute

Calibrated Imputation in Surveys Under a Quasi-Model-Assisted Approach
Jean-François Beaumont, Statistics Canada, Canada

Chair: Julie Trépanier, Statistics Canada, Canada

Using Auxiliary Information to Choose Between Alternative Sampling Designs in a Survey with Several Key Variables
Anders Holmberg, Statistics Sweden

Getting the Most Out of the Portfolio of UK Government Household Surveys: The Office for National Statistics’ Plan for an Integrated Social Survey, the Continuous Population Survey (CPS)
Tony Manners, Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom

Follow-Up Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating: Lessons Learned from the Pilot Test
Fil McLeod, Yanick Beaucage and Cathy Underhill, Statistics Canada, Canada

A Strategy for a System of Coverage Samples for an Integrated Census
Ronit Nirel, Hagit Glickman and Dan Ben-Hur, Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel

Theoretical and Practical Problems in Constructing Related to the MSX: How Can the Precision of the Regional Extensions of National Surveys Be Improved Through Additional Sampling?
Marc Christine and Laurent Wilms, INSEE