| Wednesday, November 3, 2004 | |
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| 9:00 to 17:00 | Workshop: Data Mining and Text Mining Jean-Hugues Chauchat, Université de Lyon and Annie Morin, Université de Rennes, France (French presentation with English and French materials) Workshop: Indirect Sampling - A Practical Solution for "Hard-to-reach Populations" Workshop: The Use of Probabilistic Networks for Imputation |
| Thursday, November 4, 2004 | |
| 8:45 to 9:00 | Opening remarks |
| 9:00 to 10:00 | Keynote Address Monroe Sirken, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, USA |
| 10:30 to 12:00 |
Data Collection: 1 Survey of Daycare in Quebec Data Collection Challenges in Community Based Research: Recruitment and Tracking of Driving Under the Influence Offenders in an Alternative Sentencing Program A Tailored Approach Strategy for Young Moroccans and Turks for the Dutch Family and Fertility Survey Surveys on Aboriginal Peoples: 1 A Journey into Theoretical Waste Land Aboriginal Data Initiative ? Survey Component Recent Australian Initiatives in Engaging with and Surveying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples |
| 13:30 to 15:00 |
Estimation: 1 Extensions of the Indirect Sampling Method and its Application for the Tourism Surveys Active Set Adaptive Sampling Estimation With Link-tracing Sampling Design: A Bayesian Approach Social Surveys: 1 Experiments with Sensitive Surveys in France Challenges for a Survey on Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in the Canadian Population Disability Survey Research ? Building Evidenced-based Disability Policy on a Slippery Foundation |
| 15:30 to 16:30 |
Data Collection: 2 Using Hand-Held Technologies to Gather Data from Difficult Populations: Lessons from Research with Sex-Trade Workers and Men Who Buy Sex A Menu-Driven System Used to Collect, Track, Monitor and Summarize Youth Smoking Cessation Programs across the United States Research and Development in the Service Areas that are Looking for Measurements Social Surveys: 2 Creating Common Ground to Participate in Surveys Innovative Approaches to Interviewing People with Disabilities A Survey among Homeless who Never or Seldom use the Services Provided by Assistance Programs |
| 16:30 to 17:30 |
Estimation: 2 Hard-to-count Populations in the 2001 and 2011 UK Censuses Multiple Response Adaptive Estimators Optimal Adaptive Selection of Sampling Units and Estimation of the Injecting Drug User Population Social Surveys: 3 An Innovative Approach to Listing, Screening and Finding Eligible Participants in Sparsely Populated Target Communities Center Sampling: a Strategy for Surveying Difficult-to-sample Populations A Multivariate Analysis of Nonresponse among Ethnic Minorities |
| 18:00 to 20:00 | Evening reception |
| Friday, November 5, 2004 | |
| 9:00 to 10:00 |
Waksberg Address Understanding the Question-Answer Process |
| 10:30 to 12:00 |
Questionnaire Design Experiences in Testing Questionnaires with Specialized Populations Assessing Comprehension of Translated Questionnaires with Qualitative Methods Developing Questionnaire Formatting Guidelines for Complex Establishment Surveys Surveys on Aboriginal Peoples: 2 Surveys on Canadian Aboriginal Peoples Strategies for Surveying Indigenous Populations The Challenge of Collecting Information on the Involvement of Aboriginal People in the Canadian Criminal Justice System |
| 13:30 to 15:30 |
Frame and Sampling Issues Improvement of the Quality of Estimates for a Population with Low Income: Use of a Dual-frame in the Survey on Household Spending Applications of Adaptive Sampling Procedures to Problems in Public Health Link-tracing Sampling with an Initial Sample of Sites Selected Sequentially An Access Panel as a Sampling Frame for Difficult-to-reach Populations? Business Surveys Challenges Related to the Electronic Commerce and Technology Survey Influential Observations from Rare Subpopulations in Establishment Surveys Construction Frames to Target Difficult-to-reach Business Survey Populations A Review of Strategies for Surveying Rare and Difficult-to-reach Populations in ONS's Establishment Surveys |
| 15:30 to 15:45 | Closing remarks Don Royce, Statistics Canada |