XXIII International Methodology Symposium

Methodological Issues in Measuring Population Health

November 1 to 3, 2006
Château Cartier Resort
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

Statistics Canada's 23^rd International Methodology Symposium, "Methodological Issues In Measuring Population Health", will take place at the Château Cartier Resort in Gatineau (10 minutes from downtown Ottawa) from November 1 to November 3, 2006.

This international event addresses statistical methodology issues relevant to the work of a government statistical agency, as well as to a broader statistical community in the health care industry, government, universities and other research organizations.

This symposium will focus on methodological issues related to producing reliable information on population health . Each day will start with a plenary session that will be followed by two streams of parallel sessions. The first stream will be concerned with data development, while the second will concentrate on methods for inference and analysis. Topics will include:

• Design of cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys
• Combining data from different sources
• Use of administrative data
• Use of physical measures
• Confidentiality and disclosure control
• Estimation and variance estimation
• Editing and imputation of data
• Methods for international comparisons
• Quality of life assessments
• Small-area information
• Mapping and geographical information systems
• Methods for analysis
• New survey collection methods
• Questionnaire development and testing
• Treatment of non-sampling errors
• Data quality assurance

We are soliciting papers related to health with an emphasis on the above topics. Proposals should be in the form of a 250-word abstract (French or English) submitted by March 31, 2006. The papers will be presented and discussed during the two days of the conference, preceded by a day of workshops. Proceedings from the conference will be published and disseminated to participants.

Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail to: symposium2006@statcan.ca or by regular mail to

Symposium 2006
Attn: Dr. Milorad Kovacevic
Statistics Canada
17th Floor, R.H.Coats Building, Tunney's Pasture
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1A 0T6