1996 Annual Research Conference Proceedings

This report reflects the proceedings from the 1996 Annual Research Conference. The conference had representatives from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

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Monday, March 18

Welcoming Remarks

PLENARY SESSION I: Government Performance and Results

• Organizational Performance Measurement in the Energy Information Administration, Kirkendall (EIA)
• The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Challenge, Collins, Rapoport, Tupek (NSF)
• Discussion, Straf (NAS)
• Floor Discussion, Zoltak (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION II-A: Disclosure Avoidance Methodologies

• ARGUS: Software for Statistical Disclosure Control of Microdata, Willenborg, de Waal, Hundepool (Stat. Neth.)
• Using Noise for Disclosure Limitation of Establishment Tabular Data, Evans, Zayatz, and Slanta (BOC)
• Statistical Notions of Data Disclosure Avoidance and Their Relationship to Traditional Statistical Methodology: Data Swapping and Loglinear Models, Fienberg and Steele (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), and Makov (Haifa Univ., Israel)
• Floor Discussion: Moore (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION II-B: Longitudinal Data

• Past is Prologue: Simulating Lifetime Social Security Earnings for the Twenty-First Century, Iams and Sandell (SSA)
• Income Dynamics of Labour Force Entrants by Gender and Family Composition from 1982 to 1992: A Study Utilizing the Longitudinal Administrative Databank, Harris (Stat. Canada)
• Floor Discussion: Welniak (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION III-A: Race and Ethnicity: Part I

• Dimensions of Self Identification among Multiracial and Multiethnic Respondents in Survey Interviews, Johnson, Noel Chavez, O'Rourke, Sudman, Warnecke, and Chapa-Resendez (Univ. of Illinois), and Golden and Jobe (NCHS)

• Racial and Ethnic Classifications Used By Public Schools, Carey and Farris (Westat, Inc.), McArthur and Carpenter (NCES), and Tuchmann (DOE)
• The Development and Cognitive Testing of Race and Ethnic Origin Questions for the Year 2000 Decennial Census, Gerber and Manuel de la Puente (BOC)
• Floor Discussion: Carney (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION III-B: Improvements in Retail Trade Programs

• Reengineering of the Canadian Monthly Restaurants, Caterers and Taverns Survey Using Statistics Canada Generalized Systems, Tardif and Carpenter (Stat. Canada)
• Comparing a Fixed-Panel Sample Design with a Rotating-Panel Sample Design for Monthly Trade Surveys, Cantwell and Caldwell (BOC)
• Re-engineering Data Production and Measuring Quality in the UK Retail Prices Index Haworth (Office of National Stat., UK)
• Floor Discussion: Dane (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION IV-A: Race and Ethnicity: Part II

• A Statistical Analysis of the CPS Supplement on Race and Ethnic Origin, Tucker and Kojetin (BLS) and Harrison (BOC)
• Interpreting the Findings of the Statistical Analysis of the CPS Supplement on Race and Ethnicity, McKay, Stinson, and Kojetin (BLS) and Manuel de la Puente (BOC)
• Floor Discussion: Lamison-White (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION IV-B: Reducing Response Burden in Economic Surveys

• The New Use of Administrative Data in the Census of Manufacturing by Statistics New Zealand, Bullivant (Stat. New Zealand)
• Reducing the Response Burden for Economic Surveys: The Dutch Situation Ritzen (Stat. Neth.)
• Automated Export System: Reducing Respondent Burden Through The Electronic Integration of Business and Government Information Requirements, Woods (BOC) and Mazur (U.S. Customs Service)
• Floor Discussion: Lins (BOC)

DINNER PRESENTATION

• Mickey Mouse Management for Tough Times, Butz (NSF)

Tuesday, March 19

PLENARY SESSION V: 1996 Shirley Kallek Memorial Lecture

• The CPI and Beyond: Issues of Concept and Measurement, Dr. Griliches (Harvard Univ.)

CONCURRENT SESSION VI-A: Small Area Estimation for Labor Force Programs

• Labour Force Trend Estimation In Small Areas, Pfeffermann (Hebrew Univ., Israel), and Bell and Signorelli (Australian Bureau of Stat.)
• Small Area Estimation of Unemployment Rates for the United States: A Hierarchical Bayes Approach In Time Series Analysis, Datta (Univ. of Georgia), and Lahiri and Kun-Liang Lu (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln)
• Discussion: Tiller (BLS)

• Floor Discussion: Ikeda (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION VI-B: Administrative Lists

• Public Attitudes Toward Data Sharing by Federal Agencies, Singer (Univ. of Michigan) and Presser (Univ. of Maryland)
• An Overview of the Longitudinal Administrative Databank: Evaluation of Representativity, Standish and Ravindra (Stat. Canada)
• The New Poverty Measure Administrative Data As A Source of Medical Expenses, Doyle (BOC) and Johantgen (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research)
• Floor Discussion: Sperling (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION VII-A: Small Area Population Estimates

• Issues in Estimating the Population of Canadian Municipalities, Bender and Bédard (Stat. Canada)

• Evaluating The Accuracy of Small Area Population Estimates in Britain, Simpson, Lunn, and Middleton (Univ. of Manchester), and Diamond (Univ. of Southampton)
• SubCounty Population Estimates in the United States: Issues and Prospects, Davis (BOC)
• Floor Discussion: Schindler (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION VII-B: Metadata Standards

• Referential Directories as Metadata Dissemination, Cabral (IBGE Foundation, Brazil)
• Proposal for a Statistical Metadata Standard, LaPlant, Jr., Lestina, Jr., Gillman, and Appel (BOC)
• Beyond Positional Accuracy: Improving Geospatial Metadata Standards, Broome and Godwin (BOC)
• Floor Discussion: Montgomery (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION VIII-A: Small Area

• A Conditional Analysis of Some Small Area Estimators in Two-Stage Sampling, Falorsi (National Stat. Institute, Italy) and Russo (Univ. of Rome, Italy)
• Composite Estimation of Drug Prevalences for Substate Areas, Lahiri (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), Chattopadhyay and Reimnitz (The Gallup Organ.), and Larsen (Stanford Univ.)
• Small Area Estimation in Turkey, Gebizlioglu, Dedes, and Toprak (State Institute of Stat., Turkey)
• Floor Discussion: Engler (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION VIII-B: Metadata Systems

• A Heuristic Evaluation of a World Wide Web Prototype, Levi and Conrad (BLS)
• Towards a Unified Data and Metadata System at the Census Bureau, Sundgren (Stat. Sweden), Appel, Gillman, and LaPlant, Jr., (BOC)
• Metadata Access on A National Network - The Hiperbase Approach, Campos (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro) and Borges (Santa Clara Univ.)
• Floor Discussion: Montgomery (BOC)

Wednesday, March 20

CONCURRENT SESSION IX-A: Census Estimation

• Estimating a Population Roster from an Incomplete Census Using Mailback Questionnaires, Administrative Records, and Sampled Nonresponse Followup, Zanutto and Zaslavsky (Harvard Univ.)
• Variance Estimation for the 1995 Census Test: Methodology and Findings, Kindred Town and Fay (BOC)
• Discussion: Little (Univ. of Michigan)
• Floor Discussion: Ammenhauser (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION IX-B: Automated Coding Session: Part I

• Automatic Coding of Handprinted Responses in Statistical Surveys, Nordbotten (Univ. of Bergen, Norway)
• SICORE, The INSEE Automatic Coding System, Schuhl (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE)) France
• Floor Discussion: Priebe (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION X-A: Plans for the Next Population Census

• Replacing the Traditional French Census by a Large Scale Continuous Population Survey, Jacod and Deville (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE)) France
• Planning for the 2001 Census of the United Kingdom, Clark (Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, UK)
• Floor Discussion: Long (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION X-B: Generalized Tools/Systems

• WesVarPC: Software for Computing Variance Estimates from Complex Designs, Morganstein and Brick (Westat, Inc.)
• Systems and Data/Metadata Standards for Blaise III, Murphy (Battelle/Survey Research Assoc.)
• Floor Discussion: Ramos (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION XI-A: Record Linkage Issues

• Probability Linkage Using Social Security Administration Files, Kestenbaum (SSA)
• Record Linkage in an Information Age Society, Fair (Stat. Canada)
• Recursive Analysis of Linked Data Files, Scheuren (George Washington Univ.) and Winkler (BOC)
• Floor Discussion: Porter (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION XI-B: Electronic Data Dissemination: Part I

• Linking CASIC and Survey Description: Current Developments Concerning Comprehensive Survey Documentation, Shanks (Univ. of California-Berkeley)
• EDI: Electronic Data Interchange for Statistical Data Collection and Dissemination, Keller (Stat. Neth.)
• Metadata: A Foundation for Disseminating Canadian Census Information , Rideout and Maika (Stat. Canada)
• Floor Discussion: Petkunas (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION XII-A: Automated Edit and Imputation

• Imputing Numeric and Qualitative Variables Simultaneously, Bankier, Luc, Nadeau, and Newcombe (Stat. Canada)
• Selective Editing: Where is the Limit? van de Pol and Molenaar (Stat. Neth.)
• Experiences in Re-engineering the Approach to Editing and Imputing Canadian Imports Data, Laflamme, Barrett, Johnson, and Ramsay (Stat. Canada)
• Floor Discussion: Graham (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION XII-B: Electronic Data Dissemination: Part II

• Improvements to Data Dissemination for Economic Programs, Wallace (BOC)
• Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool (FERRET) Data Access and Dissemination for Micro and Macro Data: Overview of the Technical Architecture, Capps (BOC)
• On-Line Access and Analysis of Data: Developing A Social Science Information Management Strategy, Miller (CIESIN)
• Floor Discussion: Lins (BOC)

Thursday, March 21

PLENARY SESSION XIII: New Approaches to Survey Census Development Environment

• Generalized Environment for Application Development for Capturing, Editing and Coding Statistical Survey's Data, Hanono and Barbosa (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Integrating Metadata with Survey Development in a CAI Environment, Colledge, Wensing, and Brinkley (Australian Bureau of Stat.)
• Floor Discussion: Lestina (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION XIV-A: Alternatives to Traditional Survey Methods

• The Intelligent Paper Questionnaire, Lettré (Maryland Office of Planning) and Willard (Votation)
• Floor Discussion: Malakhoff (BOC)

CONCURRENT SESSION XIV-B: Automated Coding Session: Part II

• Advances in Automated and Computer Assisted Coding Software at Statistics Canada, Wenzowski (Stat. Canada)
• USDA's Experience with Computer-Assisted Food Coding in its 1994 Nationwide Food Survey, Perloff, Anand, Ingwersen, and LaComb (DOA)
• Floor Discussion: Hanczaryk (BOC)

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