Bayesian Methods for Complex Survey Designs and Data

Thursday, August 3, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

9:55 a.m. Exploring New Estimation Techniques for the Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey

Joanna Lineback, U.S. Census Bureau
Martin Klein, U.S. Census Bureau
Joseph Schafer, U.S. Census Bureau

Integration Approaches and Methods for Deciphering Genotype-Phenotype Mapping Toward Precision Medicine

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 317

10:35 a.m. 4. Bayesian Integrative Model for Deciphering High-Dimensional Genotype-Phenotype Map

Chuanhua Julia Xing, XPrecision
Andrew Raim, U.S. Census Bureau

Recent Advances in Zero-Inflated Regression Models

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 395

2:05 p.m. Introducing a Flexible Zero-Inflated Count Model to Address Data Dispersion

Kimberly Sellers, Georgetown University
Andrew Raim, U.S. Census Bureau

Advances in Time Series Methodology

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 281

Organizer and Chair: James Livsey, U.S. Census Bureau

9:15 a.m. Comparing Mean Squared Errors in X-13ARIMA-SEATS Using Components Models

Osbert Pang, U.S. Census Bureau
Brian Monsell, U.S. Census Bureau
William Bell, U.S. Census Bureau

9:35 a.m. Bayesian Estimation of Optimal Differencing Operator in Cointegrated Systems

Anindya Roy, University of Maryland at Baltimore County
Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau

Differential Privacy in Statistical Agencies: Present and Future

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 550

2:55 p.m. Formal Privacy Methods Come to the U.S. Census Bureau's Flagship Products

John M. Abowd, U.S. Census Bureau

Recent Developments in Seasonal Adjustment

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 453

Chair: Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau

9:55 a.m. Issues Related to the Modeling and Adjustment of High Frequency Time Series

Brian Monsell, U.S. Census Bureau
Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau

SPEED: Sports and Business

Monday, July 31, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 159

11:35 a.m. Operations Research on NCAA Football Re-Injury Prevention

Nelson Chung, U.S. Census Bureau

SPEED: Sports and Business (Poster Session)

Monday, July 31, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Session ID: 250

12. Operations Research on NCAA Football Re-Injury Prevention

Nelson Chung, U.S. Census Bureau

Time Series and Forecasting

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 338

10:35 a.m. Autoregressive Regime Switching Models for Dynamic Networks

James Livsey, U.S. Census Bureau
James D. Wilson, University of San Francisco

Using Administrative Data to Improve Surveys

Monday, July 31, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 225

2:25 p.m. Investigating the Use of Administrative Records Income Information in the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Quentin Brummet, U.S. Census Bureau
Laura Erhard, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Brett McBride, Bureau of Labor Statistics
John Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
Joshua Mitchell, U.S. Census Bureau

Using Big Data to Improve Official Economic Statistics

Thursday, August 3, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 632

Chair and Organizer: Carma Hogue, U.S. Census Bureau

10:35 a.m. Using Passive Data Collection, System-To-System Data Collection, and Machine Learning to Improve Economic Surveys

Brian Dumbacher, U.S. Census Bureaus
Demetria Hanna, U.S. Census Bureau

10:55 a.m. Using Big Data to Enhance US Census Bureau Economic Data Products

Rebecca Hutchinson, U.S. Census Bureau
Scott Scheleur, U.S. Census Bureau

Administrative Records and Record Linkage

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 508

10:50 a.m. Preliminary Research for Replacing or Supplementing the Self-Employment Income Question on the American Community Survey with Administrative Records

Jessica Majercik, U.S. Census Bureau

11:05 a.m. What Housing Assistance Support Recipients Report as Rent and How They Sort Out, as Indicated by Record Linkage

W. Kingkade, U.S. Census Bureau

Administrative Record Research for the 2020 Census

Monday, July 31, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 222

Organizer: Vincent Mule, U.S. Census Bureau

Chair: Howard Hogan, U.S. Census Bureau

2:05 p.m. A Comparison of Training Modules for Administrative Records Use in Nonresponse Followup Operations: The 2010 Census and the American Community Survey

Hubert Janicki, U.S. Census Bureau
Melissa Chow, U.S. Census Bureau
Moises Yi, U.S. Census Bureau
Lawrence Warren, U.S. Census Bureau
Mark Kutzbach, U.S. Census Bureau

2:25 p.m. Exploring Differences in Occupancy Status Between Administrative Records and 2010 Census Results

Andrew Keller, U.S. Census Bureau

2:45 p.m. Using a Child-To-Parent Linking Dataset in Administrative Records Modeling for Census Nonresponse Followup

Scott Konicki, U.S. Census Bureau

3:05 p.m. Undeliverable-As-Addressed Mail Research for Vacant and Non-Existent Housing Unit Identification

Ingrid Kjeldgaard, U.S. Census Bureau

3:25 p.m. Alternative Methods for Selecting Households for Administrative Record Enumeration in Place of Nonresponse Follow-Up for the 2020 Census

Richard Griffin, U.S. Census Bureau

Advances in Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Methodology with Applications to Official Statistics

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 454

9:35 a.m. An R Package for Spatio-Temporal Change of Support

Andrew Raim, U.S. Census Bureau
Scott Holan, University of Missouri
Jonathan Bradley, Florida State University
Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri

Challenges and Opportunities in Major Survey Redesigns: Experiences from the SIPP, NHIS, and SDR

Sunday, July 30, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 20

2:45 p.m. Re-Envisioning and Re-Building the Survey of Income and Program Participation

Jason Fields, U.S. Census Bureau

3:05 p.m. Discussant

Patrick Cantwell, U.S. Census Bureau

Differential Privacy in Statistical Agencies: Present and Future

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 550

2:55 p.m. Formal Privacy Methods Come to the U.S. Census Bureau's Flagship Products

John M. Abowd, U.S. Census Bureau

Measuring and Improving the Quality of Government Statistics

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 346

10:35 a.m. Impact of Persistent Type II Error on Data Quality in Periodic Survey Editing Methods

Brock Webb, U.S. Census Bureau
Chin-Fang Weng, U.S. Census Bureau

Methodological Innovations and Applications in Government Statistics

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 509

Chair: Gina Walejko, U.S. Census Bureau

10:35 a.m. Statistical Disclosure Control via Sufficiency Under the Multiple Linear Regression Model

Martin Klein, U.S. Census Bureau
Gauri Datta, University of Georgia and U.S. Census Bureau

11:05 a.m. Electronic Data Collection and Corresponding Reduction in Edit Rates in the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs

Elizabeth Goldberg, U.S. Census Bureau

11:20 a.m. Edit Reduction: Identifying Possible Stopping Points and Moving Toward Adaptive Design Techniques

Lisa Kaili Diamond, U.S. Census Bureau
Justin Nguyen, U.S. Census Bureau
Brian Dumbacher, U.S. Census Bureau

Official Statistics - Policy and Practice

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 469

9:35 a.m. Developing Response Metrics for the Economic Census

Justin Ward
Diane Willimack, U.S. Census Bureau

9:50 a.m. Developing Variance Estimates for Products in the Economic Census

Jeremy Knutson, U.S. Census Bureau
Matthew Thomspon, U.S. Census Bureau
Katherine Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau

Recent Advancements and Remaining Challenges of Adaptive Design in Sample Surveys and Censuses

Monday, July 31, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 105

Panelist: Asaph Young Chun, U.S. Census Bureau

Recent Advances in Small Area Estimation with Applications and Evaluation of the Estimates

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 567

2:05 p.m. Multivariate Fay-Herriot Bayesian Estimation of Small Area Means Under Functional Measurement Error

Carolina Franco, U.S. Census Bureau
William Bell, U.S. Census Bureau
Serena Arima, Sapienza University, Rome
Brunero Liseo, Sapienza University, Rome
Gauri Datta, University of Georgia and U.S. Census Bureau

2:25 p.m. Feasibility of a Logistic Regression Model Using Survey Weights in a Sparse Data Setting

Samuel Szelepka, U.S. Census Bureau
Blandine Bawawana, U.S. Census Bureau
Xingyou Zhang, U.S. Census Bureau

2:45 p.m. Evaluation Methods for the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates Program

Wesley Basel, U.S. Census Bureau

3:05 p.m. Robust Hierarchical Bayes Small Area Estimation

Gauri Datta, University of Georgia and U.S. Census Bureau
Adrijo Chakraborty, NORC at the University of Chicago
Abhyuday Mandal, University of Georgia

State, County, and Local Government Statistics

Thursday, August 3, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 662

11:20 a.m. A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Estimation for the Annual Survey of Local Government Finances

Noah Bassel, U.S. Census Bureau
Bac Tran, U.S. Census Bureau

11:35 a.m. Outlier Research in the Annual Survey of Local Government Finances

Peter Schilling, U.S. Census Bureau
Redouane Betrouni, U.S. Census Bureau
Bac Tran, U.S. Census Bureau

11:50 a.m. Robust Estimation for the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll Using Mixture of Linear Mixed-effects Models with the MCMC Procedure

Giang Trinh, U.S. Census Bureau
Bac Tran, U.S. Census Bureau

12:05 p.m. A New Edit Method

Selvaratnam Sridharma, U.S. Census Bureau

Time Series, Reconciliation, and National Statistics

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 394

3:50 p.m. Seasonal Adjustment Subject to Accounting Constraints

Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau

TRANScending Data Gaps: Advances in Transgender Research Using Survey and Administrative Data

Monday, July 31, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 93

8:35 a.m. Measuring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the National Crime Victimization Survey

Jennifer Truman, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Rachel Morgan, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Timothy Gilbert, U.S. Census Bureau
Pretti Vaghela, U.S. Census Bureau

Upcoming Changes to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement

Monday, July 31, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 138

Organizer: Trudi Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau

Chair: David G. Waddington, U.S. Census Bureau

10:35 a.m. Processing Changes to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement

Jonathan Rothbaum, U.S. Census Bureau

11:00 a.m. Challenges in Measuring Health Insurance Coverage

Jennifer Cheeseman Day, U.S. Census Bureau
Marina Vornovitsky, U.S. Census Bureau

11:25 a.m. Evaluating the Revised Relationship Question

Jennifer M. Ortman, U.S. Census Bureau
Jonathan Vespa, U.S. Census Bureau
Rose Kreider, U.S. Census Bureau

11:50 a.m. All Our Kin? Measuring Poverty Using Alternative Family Configurations

Trudi Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau
Laryssa Mykyta, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
Ashley Edwards, U.S. Census Bureau

Using Big Data to Improve Official Economic Statistics

Thursday, August 3, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 632

Chair and Organizer: Carma Hogue, U.S. Census Bureau

10:35 a.m. Using Passive Data Collection, System-To-System Data Collection, and Machine Learning to Improve Economic Surveys

Brian Dumbacher, U.S. Census Bureaus
Demetria Hanna, U.S. Census Bureau

10:55 a.m. Using Big Data to Enhance US Census Bureau Economic Data Products

Rebecca Hutchinson, U.S. Census Bureau
Scott Scheleur, U.S. Census Bureau

What is the Future of the Sample Survey for Government Statistics? - Government Statistics Section P.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee)

Monday, July 31, 2017, 12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. - Session ID: 188

Peter Miller, U.S. Census Bureau

SPEED: Nonparametrics & Imaging

Monday, July 31, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 161

11:10 a.m. Estimation of Locally Stationary Spatial Processes with Applications to the American Community Survey

Daniel Weinberg, U.S. Census Bureau
Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau
Soumendra N. Lahiri, North Carolina State University

SPEED: Nonparametrics & Imaging (Poster Session)

Monday, July 31, 2017, 3:05 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 252

8. Estimation of Locally Stationary Spatial Processes with Applications to the American Community Survey

Daniel Weinberg, U.S. Census Bureau
Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau
Soumendra N. Lahiri, North Carolina State University

Data Editing: How Much Is Too Much?

Sunday, July 30, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 26

Panelist: Justin Nguyen, U.S. Census Bureau

Data, Linked Data and Model-Based Analytics in Social Science

Sunday, July 30, 2017, 4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. - Session ID: 77

Chair: Ernest Lawley, U.S. Census Bureau

Recent Advancements and Remaining Challenges of Adaptive Design in Sample Surveys and Censuses

Monday, July 31, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 105

Panelist: Asaph Young Chun, U.S. Census Bureau

Social Issues, Trends, Inequality, and Employment

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 410

Chair: Danielle Taylor, U.S. Census Bureau

TRANScending Data Gaps: Advances in Transgender Research Using Survey and Administrative Data

Monday, July 31, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 93

8:35 a.m. Measuring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the National Crime Victimization Survey

Jennifer Truman, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Rachel Morgan, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Timothy Gilbert, U.S. Census Bureau
Pretti Vaghela, U.S. Census Bureau

Upcoming Changes to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement

Monday, July 31, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 138

Organizer: Trudi Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau

Chair: David G. Waddington, U.S. Census Bureau

10:35 a.m. Processing Changes to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement

Jonathan Rothbaum, U.S. Census Bureau

11:00 a.m. Challenges in Measuring Health Insurance Coverage

Jennifer Cheeseman Day, U.S. Census Bureau
Marina Vornovitsky, U.S. Census Bureau

11:25 a.m. Evaluating the Revised Relationship Question

Jennifer M. Ortman, U.S. Census Bureau
Jonathan Vespa, U.S. Census Bureau
Rose Kreider, U.S. Census Bureau

11:50 a.m. All Our Kin? Measuring Poverty Using Alternative Family Configurations

Trudi Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau
Laryssa Mykyta, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
Ashley Edwards, U.S. Census Bureau

SPEED: Sports and Business

Monday, July 31, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 159

11:35 a.m. Operations Research on NCAA Football Re-Injury Prevention

Nelson Chung, U.S. Census Bureau

SPEED: Sports and Business (Poster Session)

Monday, July 31, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Session ID: 250

12. Operations Research on NCAA Football Re-Injury Prevention

Nelson Chung, U.S. Census Bureau

Data Editing: How Much Is Too Much?

Sunday, July 30, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 26

Panelist: Justin Nguyen, U.S. Census Bureau

Poster Presentations: Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 351

14. Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Process Implementation in R

Diag Davenport, Georgetown University
Kimberly F Sellers, Georgetown University
Darcy Morris, U.S. Census Bureau
Li Zhu, Georgetown University

In Memory of Dr. Lawrence H. Cox

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 275

8:35 a.m. Larry Cox: Disclosure Avoidance Expert, Mentor, and Friend at the U.S. Census Bureau

Laura McKenna, U.S. Census Bureau

Integration Approaches and Methods for Deciphering Genotype-Phenotype Mapping Toward Precision Medicine

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 317

10:35 a.m. 4. Bayesian Integrative Model for Deciphering High-Dimensional Genotype-Phenotype Map

Chuanhua Julia Xing, XPrecision
Andrew Raim, U.S. Census Bureau

SPEED: Nonparametrics & Imaging

Monday, July 31, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 161

11:10 a.m. Estimation of Locally Stationary Spatial Processes with Applications to the American Community Survey

Daniel Weinberg, U.S. Census Bureau
Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau
Soumendra N. Lahiri, North Carolina State University

SPEED: Nonparametrics & Imaging (Poster Session)

Monday, July 31, 2017, 3:05 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 252

8. Estimation of Locally Stationary Spatial Processes with Applications to the American Community Survey

Daniel Weinberg, U.S. Census Bureau
Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau
Soumendra N. Lahiri, North Carolina State University

SPEED: Sports and Business (Poster Session)

Monday, July 31, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Session ID: 250

12. Operations Research on NCAA Football Re-Injury Prevention

Nelson Chung, U.S. Census Bureau

SPEED: Sports and Business

Monday, July 31, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 159

11:35 a.m. Operations Research on NCAA Football Re-Injury Prevention

Nelson Chung, U.S. Census Bureau

SPEED: Sports and Business (Poster Session)

Monday, July 31, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Session ID: 250

12. Operations Research on NCAA Football Re-Injury Prevention

Nelson Chung, U.S. Census Bureau

Analyzing Government Data with Mission Item Values: a WSS Invited Session

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 318

10:35 a.m. Measuring Cross-Country Differences in Misallocation

Kirk White, U.S. Census Bureau
Mitsukuni Nishida, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Martin Rotemberg, New York University
Amil Petrin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and NBER

Bayesian Adaptive Survey Designs

Sunday, July 30, 2017, 4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. - Session ID: 48

4:05 p.m. More Information is Better! Where Do We Get it and How Do We Use It?

Stephanie Coffey, U.S. Census Bureau

Combining Data and Use of Administrative Lists

Sunday, July 30, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 37

2:20 p.m. Lifestyle Segments, Social Marketing, and Hard-To-Survey Populations: Understanding Participation in the 2015 Census Test

Mary Mulry, U.S. Census Bureau
Nancy Bates, U.S. Census Bureau
Matt Virgile, U.S. Census Bureau

3:05 p.m. Calculating Boundary Cutoffs for the Hidiroglou-Bertholet Edit Used to Flag Administrative Receipts

Melvin McCullough, U.S. Census Bureau
Michael E. Kornbau, U.S. Census Bureau

Current Themes in Record Linkage Research

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 396

3:25 p.m. Discussant: William Winkler, U.S. Census Bureau

Data Editing: How Much Is Too Much?

Sunday, July 30, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 26

Panelist: Justin Nguyen, U.S. Census Bureau

Estimation with Statistical Models

Thursday, August 3, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 668

10:50 a.m. Seasonal Adjustment of the QTAX

Erick Valentine, U.S. Census Bureau
Kathleen McDonald, U.S. Census Bureau
Demetra Lytras, U.S. Census Bureau
Katherine Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau

11:20 a.m. Model-Calibration Estimator Using Time-To-Event Models

Benjamin Reist, U.S. Census Bureau

Impact of Data Collection Modes and Data Sources

Monday, July 31, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 128

8:35 a.m. Comparability in Quarterly Sales Tax Collection Vs Annual Collection

Dedrick Owens, U.S. Census Bureau

Instrumentation and Data Quality

Monday, July 31, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 238

2:20 p.m. INTEGRATING EARLY STAGE SCOPING TECHNIQUES into TRADITIONAL PRETESTING METHODS: Inside the Development of a Survey on Small Business Lending

Kenneth Herrell, U.S. Census Bureau
Michael Purcell, U.S. Census Bureau
Mary Bucci, U.S. Census Bureau

3:20 p.m. Resolving Balance Complex Discrepancies in the Presence of Negative Data

Laura Bechtel, U.S. Census Bureau
Nicole Czaplicki, U.S. Census Bureau
Maria Garcia, U.S. Census Bureau
Jeremy Knuston, U.S. Census Bureau

Methods for Imputing Missing Survey Data

Monday, July 31, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 112

8:55 a.m. Methods for Imputing Missing Survey Data

Katherine Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau
Rebecca Andridge, Ohio State University
Laura Bechtel, U.S. Census Bureau
Natasha McCarthy, U.S. Census Bureau

9:55 a.m. Discussant: John Eltinge

New Developments in Small Area Estimation Research at the U.S. Census Bureau

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 282

Organizer: Robert Ashmead, U.S. Census Bureau

8:35 a.m. Small Area Model Diagnostics and Validation with Applications to the Voting Rights Act Section 203

Robert Ashmead, U.S. Census Bureau
Eric Slud, U.S. Census Bureau & University of Maryland College Park

8:55 a.m. Small Area Models for Over-Dispersed Poisson Counts

Jerry Maples, U.S. Census Bureau
Adam Maidman, University of Minnesota

9:15 a.m. Hybrid BRR and Parametric-Bootstrap Variance Estimates for Small Domains in Large Surveys

Eric Slud, U.S. Census Bureau & University of Maryland College Park
Robert Ashmead, U.S. Census Bureau

9:35 a.m. Multilevel Regression and Poststratification (MRP) for Small Area Estimation: An Application to Estimate Health Insurance Coverage Using Geocoded American Community Survey

Xingyou Zhang, U.S. Census Bureau
Samuel Szelepka, U.S. Census Bureau
Blandine Bawawana, U.S. Census Bureau
Alfred Gottschalck, U.S. Census Bureau

Practical Applications of Small Area Estimation

Thursday, August 3, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 613

8:55 a.m. Measurement Error in Small Area Estimation: Functional vs. Structural vs. Naive Models

William Bell, U.S. Census Bureau
Gauri Datta, University of Georgia and U.S. Census Bureau
Carolina Franco, U.S. Census Bureau
Hee Cheol Chung, University of Georgia

Predicting Attrition and Adaptive Strategies

Monday, July 31, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 171

11:05 a.m. Refining an External-Factor Model of Government Survey Refusal Rates

Luke Larsen, U.S. Census Bureau
Joanna Lineback, U.S. Census Bureau
Benjamin Reist, U.S. Census Bureau

11:50 a.m. An Embedded Experiment for Targeted Nonresponse Follow-Up in Establishment Surveys

Stephen Kaputa, U.S. Census Bureau
Katherine Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau
Jennifer Beck, National Science Foundation

Recent Advancements and Remaining Challenges of Adaptive Design in Sample Surveys and Censuses

Monday, July 31, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 105

Panelist: Asaph Young Chun, U.S. Census Bureau

Small Estimation and Use of Unit-Level Models

Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 2:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Session ID: 409

2:50 p.m. Unit-Level Logistic Mixed Effects Model for Small Area Estimation of Poverty Estimates

Blandine Bawawana, U.S. Census Bureau
Xingyou Zhang, U.S. Census Bureau
Samuel Szelepka, U.S. Census Bureau
John Posey, U.S. Census Bureau

3:35 p.m. Small Area Estimation in Government Surveys (U.S. Census Bureau)

Bac Tran, U.S. Census Bureau

Imputation and Nonresponse Bias

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. - Session ID: 472

8:35 a.m. Assessing the Impact of the Final Housing Unity Followup on the 2010 Census Coverage Measurement Housing Unit Estimates

Michael Beaghen, U.S. Census Bureau
Anne Wakim, U.S. Census Bureau

Using Big Data to Improve Official Economic Statistics

Thursday, August 3, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 632

Chair and Organizer: Carma Hogue, U.S. Census Bureau

10:35 a.m. Using Passive Data Collection, System-To-System Data Collection, and Machine Learning to Improve Economic Surveys

Brian Dumbacher, U.S. Census Bureaus
Demetria Hanna, U.S. Census Bureau

10:55 a.m. Using Big Data to Enhance US Census Bureau Economic Data Products

Rebecca Hutchinson, U.S. Census Bureau
Scott Scheleur, U.S. Census Bureau

Issues in LGBT Discrimination

Monday, July 31, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 163

10:50 a.m. Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by Survey Household Proxy

Nancy Bates, U.S. Census Bureau
Jennifer M. Ortman, U.S. Census Bureau

New Developments in Time Series Analysis and Change Point Detection

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. - Session ID: 510

10:35 a.m. Implicit Multi-Layer Network for Time Series Data

Brandon Park
Anand N. Vidyashankar, George Mason University
Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau