Abstracts and proceedings

Opening remarks
Keynote Address
Session 1: Technical Session on Confidentiality
Session 2: Metadata Development in Support of Data Dissemination
Session 3: Respondent Relations
Session 4: Panel Discussion on Ethical Issues for Statistical Agencies
Waksberg Address
Session 5: Identifying and Understanding Bias
Session 6: Estimation and Analysis Issues
Session 7: Business Register Redesign
Session 8: Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) – Current Initiatives, Future Directions
Session 9: Charts of accounts and tax data
Session 10: Explaining or Conveying Variance/Sampling Errors to Users
Session 11: Data Integration
Session 12: Challenges in Using Data from Longitudinal Surveys
Session 13: Collection Challenges, Problems and Strategies
Session 14: Challenges and Accomplishments in Analysis of Data from Complex Surveys
Session 15: Combining Data from Different Sources
Session 16: Disclosure Control and Confidentiality
Session 17: Panel Discussion on Access to Data for Academic and Policy Research
Session 18: Data Quality Indicators
Closing remarks
Poster Session

Opening Remarks:

Keynote Address:

The Role of Paradata at all Stages of Survey-Going from Concept to Completion
Fritz Scheuren, NORC University of Chicago, USA

Session 1: Technical Session on Confidentiality

Organizer and Chair: Jean-Louis Tambay, Statistics Canada

Providing Spatial Data for Secondary Analysis: Issues and Current Practices Relating to Confidentiality
Myron Gutmann, Kristine Witkowski, Corey Colyer, JoAnne McFarland O’Rourke, and James McNally, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA

Quality-Preserving Controlled Tabular Adjustment: A Method for Resolving Confidentiality and Data Quality Issues for Tabular Data
Lawrence H. Cox, National Center for Health Statistics, USA

Data Swapping is not the Panacea
Jean-René Boudreau, Statistics Canada

Session 2: Metadata Development in Support of Data Dissemination

Organizer: Paul Johanis, Statistics Canada
Chair: Alice Born, Statistics Canada

Common Metadata Constructs for Statistical Data
Dan Gillman, Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA

Documenting Statistical Data Using ISO/IEC 11179 – Experience in Statistics Canada
Paul Johanis, Statistics Canada
Alice Born, Statistics Canada

Discovering Microdata Variables Comparing DDI compliant documentation to an ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry
Tim Dunstan, Statistics Canada
Chuck Humphrey, University of Alberta, Canada

Session 3: Respondent Relations

Organizer and Chair: Claude Poirier, Statistics Canada

Respondent Relations Challenges for Obtaining Agricultural Data
Ken Korporal, Statistics Canada

Response Management of Business Surveys
Monique Gaudreau and Wayne Baxter, Statistics Canada

Challenges Linked to the Quality of the Data Obtained for the Survey of Principals
Martin Renaud, Statistics Canada

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Recent Innovation in Collecting Business Statistics
Peter Damcevski, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia

Session 4: Panel Discussion on Ethical Issues for Statistical Agencies

Organizers: M.P. Singh and Philip Giles, Statistics Canada
Moderator: Lawrence H. Cox, National Center for Health Statistics, USA

Panelists:
Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University, Canada
Pamela White, Statistics Canada
Gerald Gates, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Waksberg Address

Organizer: M.P. Singh, Statistics Canada
Chair: Gordon Brackstone, Ottawa

Interplay Between Sample Survey Theory and Practice: an Appraisal
J.N.K. Rao, Carleton University, Canada

Session 5: Identifying and Understanding Bias

Chair: John Kovar, Statistics Canada

Indirect Two Phase Sampling: An Application to Questionnaire Field-testing
Mike Hidiroglou, Office for National Statistics, U.K.
Pierre Lavallée, Statistics Canada

Interviewer Falsification Detection using Data Mining
Joe Eyerman, Joe Murphy, Colleen McCue and Christy Hottinger, RTI International, USA
Joel Kennet , Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, USA

Evaluating High Effort Measures for Studying Nonresponse Bias
Catherine M. Simile, James M. Dahlhamer and Beth Taylor, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Attrition and Non-response in the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
Brahim Boudarbat, Université de Montréal, Canada
Lee Grenon, Statistics Canada

Session 6: Estimation and Analysis Issues

Chair: Jack Gambino, Statistics Canada

Estimating Mediated Effects in Health and Epidemiological Research
Cameron N. McIntosh, Statistics Canada

Single Frame Estimation in Multiple Frame Survey
Fulvia Mecatti, Department of Statistics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

Linearization Variance Estimators for Model Parameters from Complex Survey Data
Abdellatif Demnati, Statistics Canada
J. N.K. Rao, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Canada

Responding to New Data Demands for Comparative Research and Multilevel Analysis: The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Program
Martin Spielauer, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany

Session 7: Business Register Redesign

Organizer: Stuart Pursey, Statistics Canada
Chair: Mario Ménard, Statistics Canada

The Redesign of the Dutch Business Register
Kees Vennix, Statistics Netherlands

Redesigning the UK's Business Register and Business Surveys to Enable Production of Better Economic Statistics
Mark Pont, Mike Hidiroglou, John Perry, Paul Smith and Pam Tate, Office for National Statistics, U.K.

The Redesign of Statistics Canada’s Business Register
Yanick Beaucage, Paul Hunsberger, and Stuart Pursey, Statistics Canada

Session 8: Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) – Current Initiatives, Future Directions

Organizer: Jeffrey Smith, Statistics Canada
Chair/Facilitator: Ernie Boyko, Nesstar Americas

Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) in the Real World
Michelle Edwards, University of Guelph, Canada
Marie-Josée Bourgeois, Statistics Canada

Delivering the Metadata: An RDC Experience
Irene Wong, Statistics Canada

Session 9: Charts of accounts and tax data

Organizer and Chair: Guylaine Dubreuil, Statistics Canada

Progress in business data collection
Lucie Vinette, Statistics Canada

Imputation of distributions in administrative tax data
Rong Haung, Statistics Canada
Dominique Ladiray, Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques, France

Use of Administrative Data for Structural Business Statistics
Koert van Bemmel, Statistics Netherlands

Session 10: Explaining or Conveying Variance/Sampling Errors to Users

Organizer and Chair: Paul Smith, Office for National Statistics, U.K.
Discussant: Ed Swires-Hennessy

Communicating Variances for Interpretation of Changes and Turning Points in Repeated Surveys
David Steel, University of Wollongong, Australia
Paul Smith, Office for National Statistics, U.K.

Discrimination Coefficient of Variation: An Improved Measure of Quality of Estimates
Avi Singh, Statistics Canada
Matt Westlake and Moshe Feder, RTI International, USA

Variance Information for Data Users
John Wood, Office for National Statistics, U.K.

Explaining or Conveying Variance/Sampling Errors to Users - Discussant
Ed Swires-Hennessy, Data Unit Wales, U.K.

Session 11: Data Integration

Organizer and Chair: Wesley Yung, Statistics Canada

Quarterly Services Survey Analysis of Response
David M. Lassman and Kristy Mills, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Combining Administrative and Respondent Data by the Monthly Survey of Manufacturing
Steven Thomas and Krista Cook, Statistics Canada

Model Assisted Approaches to Complex Survey Sampling from Finite Populations Using Bayesian Networks: a Tool for Integration of Different Sources
Marco Ballin and Mauro Scanu, Istat, Italy
Paola Vicard, Università di Roma, Italy

Session 12: Challenges in Using Data from Longitudinal Surveys

Organizer and Chair: Normand Laniel, Statistics Canada

Dealing with Missing Survey Data in Longitudinal Analysis
Robert Baskin, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, USA

Incorporating Time-in-sample in Longitudinal Survey Models
Mary Thompson, Christian Boudreau and Pete Driezen, University of Waterloo, Canada

Taking Stock: The Future of Longitudinal Surveys
Garnett Picot and Maryanne Webber, Statistics Canada

Session 13: Collection Challenges, Problems and Strategies

Organizer and Chair: Jackey Mayda, Statistics Canada

New Data Collection Challenges at Statistics Netherlands
Jelke Bethlehem, Statistics Netherlands

An active management approach to survey collection
Lecily Hunter and Jean-Francois Carbonneau, Statistics Canada

Solutions for Data Collection Challenges: Using Process Data for Responsive Design
Sue Ellen Hansen and Patricia Maher, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA

Session 14: Challenges and Accomplishments in Analysis of Data from Complex Surveys

Organizer and Chair: Georgia Roberts, Statistics Canada

Regression with Latent Variables
Roland Thomas, Carleton University, Canada
Irene Lu, York University, Canada

Methods for Longitudinal Binary Data With Missing Observations
Grace Yi, University of Waterloo, Canada

Impact of Informativeness of the Sample Design on Statistical Inference
David Binder, Milorad Kovacevic and Georgia Roberts, Statistics Canada

Session 15: Combining Data from Different Sources

Chair: Julie Trépanier, Statistics Canada

National databases, student outcomes and school performance: Hybridization of census data and student outcomes files – a springboard to a proxy index of school performance
Soundiata Diene Mansa and Jean-Guy Blais, Université de Montréal, Canada

Estimating Undercounting of Vehicle-related Injury Cases in New Zealand: A Probabilistic Data Integration and Capture-recapture Approach
Ricardo Namay, Statistics New Zealand

Getting Around a Conceptual Difference Between Two Data Sources when Producing Estimates
Serge Godbout and Chantal Grondin, Statistics Canada

Health Studies Using Linked Administrative Hospital Data
Helen Johansen, Senior Analyst, Health Division, Statistics Canada

Session 16: Disclosure Control and Confidentiality

Chair: David Dolson, Statistics Canada

Statistical Disclosure Control: Legal Framework and Methodological Aspects
M.J. Santos and S. Ribaille, Eurostat

Anonymisation and Release of the EU-SILC Database: Confidentiality Issues in an International Environment
Jean-Marc Museux, Eurostat

ISQ’s approach for statistical control of disclosure of tables prepared from demographic events
L. Des Groseilliers, P. Berthiaume, J. Baulne and É. Gagnon, Institut de la statistique du Québec, Canada

Statistical Disclosure Control of Sensitive Tabular Data By Complementary Cell Suppression – Myth & Reality
Ramesh A. Dandekar, U. S. Department of Energy

Session 17: Panel Discussion on Access to Data for Academic and Policy Research

Organizer: Michelle Simard, Statistics Canada
Facilitator: Doug Norris, Statistics Canada

Panelists:
John Anderson, Canada
Lorna Bailie, Statistics Canada
Cliff Halliwell, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
Dan Hiebert, University of British Columbia, Canada

Session 18: Data Quality Indicators

Organizer: Pierre Lavallée, Statistics Canada
Chair: Claude Julien, Statistics Canada

Quality measures related to the Telephone First Contact Collection Process in the Labour Force Survey
Danielle Lebrasseur, Statistics Canada

Quality Measures for Enhanced Quality of Statistics in the European Statistical System
Martina Hahn and Håkan Linden, Eurostat

Measuring Quality in a National Statistical Organization
Eugene M. Burns, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, USA

Quality Indicators when Combining Survey Data and Administrative Data
Pierre Lavallée, Statistics Canada

Closing remarks:

Jack Gambino, Statistics Canada

Poster Session:

Modeling Survey Contact in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
James M. Dahlhamer, Barbara J. Stussman, Catherine M. Simile and Beth Taylor, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Growth models: an interesting approach to study the evolution of the health status of the elderly
Marie-France Dubois, Réjean Hébert and Michel Raîche, Université de Sherbrooke and Centre de recherche sur le vieillissement de l’IUGS, Canada

Longitudinal Surveys, Retrospective Information and Population Health Measures
Michael T. Molla and James Lubitz, National Center for Health Statistics, USA

An Overview of Socio-economic Surveys in Vietnam: Methods, Achievements and Challenges
Nguyen Phong, General Statistics Office, Hanoi, Vietnam
Dominique Haughton, Bentley College, USA

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