Conferences and Meetings

Workshop of Baltic-Nordic-Ukrainian Network on Survey Statistics 2012.

The aim of the workshop is to maintain the cooperation between survey statisticians in Baltic and Nordic countries, Ukraine and Belarus.The objectives are to present recent achievements and results, learn from teachers and colleagues, discuss the future, share opinions and experience and strengthen contacts between survey statisticians.

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21st International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse.

This year’s workshop will take place in Nürnberg (Germany) from 30th August to 1st September, and will be organised by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and coordinated by Annelies Blom (Mannheim) in cooperation with the local organising committee consisting of Andy Peytchev (RTI), Frauke Kreuter (Maryland) and Annette Jäckle (Essex).

International Total Survey Error Workshop (ITSEW) Stoweflake Resort and Spa in Stowe, VT from June 13-16, 2010.

http://niss.org/itsew-2010-call-for-abstracts

The International Total Survey Error Workshop (ITSEW) is an ongoing series of annual workshops. The purpose of ITSEW is to enable researchers, survey practitioners, and problem owners (for example from official statistics agencies) interested in total survey error to meet on a regular basis to i) Review progress on important problems; ii)Define pressing current problems in detail, and articulate a research agenda to address them; iii)Form research collaborations to carry out needed research; iv) Identify emerging research needs at an early stage

Milano (Italy) 13 ottobre 2010

Giornata su "Norme e tecniche per il campionamento di acqua, suolo e aria"

Il Gruppo Scientifico Italiano Studi e Ricerche, Associazione senza fini di lucro impegnata da più di trent'anni nell'attività di formazione e divulgazione tecnico-scientifica, organizza l'evento "Norme e tecniche per il campionamento di acqua, suolo e aria". Il campionamento costituisce la prima fase di molte ricerche ambientali. Tale pratica, delicata e cruciale, porta a risultati la cui qualità è strettamente correlata a quella del campione prelevato.
Venue: presso la sede congressuale dell'Hotel Doria.

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Macerata 20-21 September 2010

Workshop on Statistical Surveys

The two days workshop aims to gather together researchers discussing on methodological and applicative issues in surveys design.
http://www.unimc.it/sviluppoeconomico/workshop-statistical-survey-thinking-about

International Total Survey Error Workshop (ITSEW) Stoweflake Resort and Spa in Stowe, VT from June 13-16, 2010.

http://niss.org/itsew-2010-call-for-abstracts

Quality in Official Statistics Q2010 Conference at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland, on 4-6 May 2010.

http://q2010.stat.fi/index/

Similarly to its predecessors, the Q2010 Conference will offer participants a platform for high-level discussions on various types of quality issues and methodological aspects of statistics production. The Q2010 will in particular focus on meeting current and future challenges for reengineering the statistical business processes of the European Statistical System.

Milano, Italy - 3 maggio 2010

Course on Population size estimation for difficult to reach populations in demography, official statistics, epidemiology and public health; a half-day course
lecturer: Peter G.M. van der Heijden, Utrecht University and Lancaster University
time: 13.30-17.30
venue: aula seminari 255 edificio U7, via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, Milano

email: riccardo.borgoni@unimib.it

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Gatineau, Quebec (Canada), 27-30 October 2009
Statistics Canada's International Methodology Symposium, "Longitudinal Surveys: from Design to Analysis".
The symposium consists of contributed and invited sessions focusing on statistical or methodological issues specific to longitudinal surveys.
E-mail: symposium2009@statcan.qc.ca
Website: http://www.statcan.ca/english/conferences/symposium2009

Arild (Southern Sweden), 21-25 September 2009
5-day Course on Measurement Errors in Surveys
This course covers some important aspects of measurement: reducing measurement error through good design, both in traditional surveys and in web surveys, and analysing measurement error with latent class models and longitudinal models. The course will give you insight into both theoretical and practical issues. The target audience is doctoral and master students in general and people working with survey methodology.
Registration deadline: July 10, 2009
Website: http://www.statistics.su.se/ecas/

Katowice (Poland), 21-22 September 2009
Survey Sampling in Economic and Social Research
In recent years a growing need is observed for statistical data, collected quickly and at low cost. This defines the role of the survey sampling and the importance of improving survey sampling procedures from theoretical and practical perspective. The conference gives an opportunity to present latest developments in this and related fields and to exchange experience on practical applications of survey sampling.
Website: http://web.ae.katowice.pl/metoda/2009

Warsaw (Poland), 29 June-03 July 2009
Third Conference of the European Survey Research Association.
The conference, organized by The European Survey Research Association (ESRA), consists of contributed and invited sessions focusing on issues
related to substantive applications of survey methodology, sampling and nonresponse, data archive teaching, design and quality of survey questions, adding data to surveys, mode of data collection and data enhancement, social indicators, data analysis, qualitative methods, comparative research, fieldwork monitoring and special issues related to survey research. See web site for information including a call for papers.
Information: Willem Saris
E-mail: esra@sqp.nl
Website: http://www.surveymethodology.eu/conferences/warsaw-2009/sessions/

Elche (Spain), 29 June-01 July 2009
SAE2009 Conference on Small Area Estimation.
SAE2009 is a scientific conference of current developments in small area estimation with applications to different fields of statistics production and research. The conference addresses, in a good balance: (i) theoretical and methodological developments in small area estimation and related fields, and (ii) in practical applications of small area estimation methods, including their potential uses in various research areas and official statistics.
E-mail: sae2009@umh.es
Website: http://cio.umh.es/sae2009

Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 24-26 June 2009
Workshop on survey sampling in honour of Jean Claude Deville.
The themes of this conference are methods of sampling and estimation under finite population. This conference is an occasion to unite boyh theoretical and practical aspects of research in survey methods that have been influenced by Jean-Claude Deville.
Website: http://www2.unine.ch/colloque_deville/page24065_en.html

Mainz (Germany), June 22-23 2009, RRC09, Recent Advances in Small Area Estimation
The main emphasis of the meeting is to offer longer presentations from international top-level speakers with detailed discussions in specific and important areas from theory and applications in small area statistics. Further, specific poster sessions in the late afternoons will perfect the discussion atmosphere between high-level experts, experienced and young researchers.
Website: http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=25485

Siena (Italy), June 10-12 2009, ITACOSM09, First ITAlian COnference on Survey Methodology
Conference Aims: Sample surveys are challenged to produce unbiased, precise, timely, and cost-efficient estimates of population characteristics, mainly averages and totals. This conference serves as a scientific forum on development, testing, and application of survey sampling methodologies in the fields of economics, of social and demographic sciences, of official statistics and in the studies on biological and environmental phenomena.
Conference topics: Auxiliary information, Complex surveys, Incomplete data, Longitudinal surveys, Non-sampling errors, Practical applications, Small areas.
E-mail: itacosm09@unisi.it
Website: http://www.unisi.it/eventi/dmq2009

Mannheim (German), 5-6 March 2009
The European User Conference for EU-LFS and EU-SILC
The European User Conference for EU-LFS and EU-SILC, which is organized by the German Microdata Lab, GESIS, in cooperation with Eurostat, will provide researchers who use these data with the opportunity to present and discuss their work and share their experience. In addition to fostering the discussion within the research community on both substantive and methodological issues, the conference offers researchers the opportunity to give feedback to the European Statistical System. It is important that the potential and limitations of EU-LFS and EU-SILC are understood by researchers and, at the same time, that the needs of researchers become clear.
E-mail: Christof.Wolf@gesis.org
Heike.Wirth@gesis.org
Website: http://www.gesis.org/EU-User-Conference/

Brussels (Belgium), 18-20 February 2009
New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics Seminar, NTTS 2009.
The NNTTS seminar is an international scientific conference on the impact of new technologies on statistical collection, production and dissemination system. The conference is intended to stimulate and facilitate the preparation of new innovative projects for the 7^th Framework Program for Research and Development, to encourage co-operation and possible building of consortia by researchers with the aim of enhancing the quality and usefulness of official statistics.
E-mail: ESTAT-NTTS@ec.europa.eu
Website: http://www.ntts2009.eu

Pisa (Italy), Giovedì 22 gennaio 2009 presso l'Aula Magna della Facoltà di Economia dell'Università degli Studi di Pisa, seminari:
- ore 14:30: "Regression with probability-Linked Data", Prof.Raymond Chambers (University of Wollongong - Australia);
- ore 16:00: "An M-quantile random effects model for hierarchical data", Dr. Nikos Tzavidis (University of Manchester - United Kingdom).

Gatineau, Quebec (Canada), 28-31 October 2008
Statistics Canada's International Methodology Symposium,
"Data Collection: Challenges, Achievements and New Directions".
The symposium consists of contributed and invited sessions focusing on issues
related to data collection such as planning, cost, implementation, efficiency and
other topics. See web site for information including a call for papers.
Information: Chris Mohl
E-mail: symposium2008@statcan.ca
Website: www.statcan.ca/english/conferences/symposium2008

Siena (Italy), Martedì 28 ottobre 2008 ore 16 presso l'Aula 11 della Facoltà di Economia R. Goodwin dell'Università degli Studi di Siena, Seminario "L'indagine sui Bilanci delle famiglie della Bdl: scopi, metodi e utilizzi", Dott. Ivan Faiella (Banca d'Italia - Divisione Indagini campionarie).

Southampton, Hampshire (UK), 26-29 August 2008
Sample Surveys and Bayesian Statistics - Workshop and Conference. Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute Bayesian methods have become increasingly popular across a broad range of statistical applications, stimulated by the development of efficient computational methods such as MCMC. Sample survey inference, however, is still largely based on the randomization distribution over repeated sampling, with models being used only as a last resort, such as in small area estimation or when compensating for measurement errors or nonresponse. The aim of this meeting is to highlight the potential advantages of Bayesian methodology and discuss and illustrate its possible applications in diverse areas of sample survey design and inference. The meeting will begin with a 1.5 days short course, followed by a 2.5 days conference, consisting of invited and contributed research and applied papers and a special panel discussionInformation on registration to the workshop and conference and submission of abstracts of contributed papers can be found on the conference website
www.s3ri.soton.ac.uk/ssbs08/

Katowice (Poland), September, 8-10, 2008
The Fifth Conference in Survey Sampling in Economic and Social Research(http://web.ae.katowice.pl/metoda/ )
In recent years a growing need is observed for statistical data, collected quickly and at low cost. This defines the role of the survey sampling and the importance of improving survey sampling procedures from theoretical and practical perspective.
The conference gives an opportunity to present latest developments in this and related fields and to exchange experience on practical applications of survey sampling.
Conference topics: estimation of population parameters based on complex samples, statistical inference based on incomplete data, small area estimation, sample size and cost optimization in survey sampling, sampling designs, statistical inference using auxiliary information, model-based estimation, longitudinal surveys, practical applications of survey sampling.
Invited Speakers: Malay Ghosh (University of Florida), Nicholas T. Longfod (Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona), Yves Tillé (University of Neuchâtel).

Berlin (Germany), June, 25-28, 2008
International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts.
(http://www.csdi-workshop.org)
Sessions are planned for: a wide variety of disciplines including sociology, political science, marketing, media, communication science, economics, education, health, psychology, research activities from developed and emerging countries around the world; research on values, behaviour, attitudes, opinions and performance in these disciplines, such as: family and gender research, social networks,election studies, research in fragile states and among disaster-stricken populations, health care assessment, labour and income research,organizational research.
Key methodological topics: study design, question design, process quality control and assurance, survey error, multilingual issues, data collection methods and modes, sampling and weighting, analysis and testing, data documentation and distribution.

Milano, May, 7th, 2008
Università Milano Bicocca
Statistica e Previsioni elettorali: uno sguardo ai numeri 2008
La Facoltà di Scienze Statistiche incontra Renato Mannheimer e Nando Pagnoncelli: ore 15.00 presso la Facoltà-Edifico U7 - Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, Milano.

Ottawa (Canada), October 31-November 1, 2007
Workshop on Calibration and Estimation in Surveys.
(http://www.statcan.ca/english/conferences/wces-acee/index-en.htm)
This conference will focus on conceptual, technical and practical aspects of calibration and more generally estimation in surveys. Topics included will cover inference, survey sampling, generalized regression estimation, imputation variance, and small area estimation.
The special invited keynote speaker will be Carl-Erik Särndal.

Beijing (China), October, 22 – 24, 2007
Fourth International Conference on Agriculture Statistics "Advancing Statistical Integration and Analysis".
(http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/icas/)
The Conference is open to all producers and users of agricultural statistics such as statisticians, researchers, analysts and decision-makers from government agencies, academia,business and private sector, as well as the development community, including international organizations. Plenary keynote speeches will be delivered by prominent speakers in this field, round table discussions and parallel sessions will be led by outstanding organizers from all over the world. These will be supplemented by poster presentations and exhibitions.conference

Pisa, September, 3-5, 2007
Conferenza SAE2007
Satellite meeting of the 56th Session of the International Statistical Institute .
(Lisbon, August 22-29, http://www.isi2007.com.pt/isi2007/)
Organized with the support of the Regione Toscana, the meeting aims to promote the interaction of international experts and the spread of the main scientific results on small area estimation techniques.
A short course on small area estimation techniques and tools, aimed for graduate students, PhD students and researchers will be held by international experts.
More details on the conference are available at http://www.dipstat.ec.unipi.it/SAE2007/.
Short report on the conference

Kusamo, Finland, June, 2-7, 2007
Second Baltic-Conference on Survey Sampling.
(http://www.mathstat.helsinki.fi/msm/banocoss/)
Organized by the University of Helsinki, Baltic-Nordic Network in Survey Sampling, Statistics Finland and the Finnish Statistical Society, is a scientific conference presenting current developments in: (i) design and analysis of complex surveys, and (ii) use of auxiliary information in survey sampling, with applications to empirical research and statistics production.
Short report on the conference (in Italian)

Permanent Working Group on "Survey Sampling Methodologies"

Conferences and Meetings

Permanent Working Group on
"Survey Sampling Methodologies"