Program

Tuesday October 28, 2008

9:00-17:00 Workshops

• The Psychology of Survey Response
  Roger Tourangeau, University of Maryland, College Park, MD U.S.A.
  
• Mixed-Mode Surveys: Innovation and Challenge
  Edith D. de Leeuw, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  
• Using Paradata to Weight for Non-Response
  Jean-François Beaumont, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada

Wednesday October 29, 2008

8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks

• François Maranda, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada

9:00-10:00 - Session 1: Waksberg Award Address:

• Mary Thompson, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. Canada

10:30-12:00 Session 2: Strategies for Data Collection at National Statistical Organizations

• Statistics Canada Collection Business Architecture: Overview of the Approach, Lessons Learned and Future Plans
  Mourad Faid, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
  
• Organisation of Data Collection Methodology Services in the Australian Bureau of Statistics
  Kettie Hewett and Jill Charker, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, Australia
  
• The Organisation of Collection Functions at Statistics New Zealand
  Sarah Williams and Lyn Kaye, Statistics New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
  
• Achievements and Challenges: An Overview of Data Collection Methodology at the UK Office for National Statistics
  Jacqui Jones, Elspeth Maclean, Amanda Wilmot and Ruth Wallis, Office for National Statistics, Newport, Wales UK

10:30-12:00 Session 3: Questionnaire Design and Testing 1

• Searching for the Silver Bullet:  Are Energy Information Administration’s Current Tools Adequate for Designing and Testing EIA Business Surveys?
  Stanley R. Freedman, U.S. Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC U.S.A.
  
  
• ‘Don’t Touch That ..., You Don’t Know Where It Has Been’: Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing and Question Recycling
  Graham Hughes and Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK.
  
• Development and Implementation Issues for a Survey Question on Sexual Identity
  Joseph Traynor, Office for National Statistics, London, England, UK
  
• Looking Ahead to the 2011 Census
  Marie-Noëlle Parent, Danielle Lebrasseur, Limei Sun and Shana Wogrinetz, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada

10:30-12:00 Session 4: Bias and Estimation Issues

• Selection Models for Evaluating Assumptions of Methods that Compensate for Missing Values in Sample Surveys
  Philip J. Smith, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, GA U.S.A.
  
• The Effects of Non-Response Follow-Up in a Survey on Living Conditions among Immigrants in Norway
  Johan Fosen, Gustav Haraldsen and Øyvin Kleven, Statistics Norway, Oslo, Norway
  
• Non-Response Bias Analysis Using Abbreviated Interviews
  Donsig Jang and Xiaojing Lin, Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC U.S.A.,
  Kelly Kang, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA U.S.A.
  
• Data Collection Challenges in Dual Frame Surveys
  Sharon Lohr Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ U.S.A.,
  Burke Grandjean University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY U.S.A.

13:30-15:00 Session 5: Monitoring Collection

• Statistics Canada’s Computer-Assisted Personal Interview Monitoring Program
  Edward Joseph and Caroline Pelletier. Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• Computer Audio-Recorded Interviewing (CARI) as a Tool for Monitoring Field Interviewers and Improving Field Data Collection
  M. Rita Thissen, Carl Fisher, Lillie Barber and Sridevi Sattaluri, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC U.S.A.
• CARI: A Tool for Improving Data Quality Now and the Next Time
  Wendy Hicks, Brad Edwards, Karen Tourangeau and Brett McBride, Westat, Rockville MD, U.S.A.
  Lauren Harris-Kojetin and Abigail Moss, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville MD, U.S.A

13:30-15:00 Session 6: Collection Challenges in Business Surveys

• Methods for Avoiding Non-Response Bias in Academic Business Surveys
  Ezgi Akpinar and Tony Hak, Erasmus University. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  
• Making Telephone Data Entry (TDE) the Primary Mode of Response in Short Term Business Surveys at the U.K. Office for National Statistics
  Elspeth Maclean, Mark Peck and Ann Lewis, Office for National Statistics, Newport, Wales UK.
  
• Comparisons of Collection Follow-Up Score Functions
  Hansheng Xie, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
  
• Charting New Directions for Data Collection Processes in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Studies: An Institutional Approach
  M. Sanni, A. A. Egbetokun, A.D. Dada, O.M. Hassan, A.A. Afolabi, A.D. Adeyeye and W.O. Siyanbola, National Centre for Technology Management, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

13:30-15:00 Session7: Data Collection for Surveys on Children

• Establishing the Elfe (Etude Longitudinale Française depuis l’Enfance) Cohort: Methodological Choices and the Treatment of Non-Response
  Hélène Sarter, Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Saint-Maurice, France,
  Nicolas Razafindratsima, Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques, Paris, France
  
• The Reliability of Children’s Survey Responses: The Impact of Cognitive Functioning on Respondent Behavior and Data Quality
  Marek Fuchs, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
  
• Data Collection for the Health Module (2008) of the Longitudinal Study of Child Development in Quebec (ÉLDEQ)
  Bertrand Perron and Nancy Illick, Institut de la statistique du Québec, Montréal, Que. Canada
  
• Ethical and Privacy Challenges of Involving Children in Research on Sensitive Issues: The Experiences of Amajuba Child Health and Wellbeing Research Project (ACHWRP)
  Mandisa Cakwe, Amajuba Child Health and Well-being Research Project, Newcastle, South Africa

15:30-17:00 Session 8: Blaise: New Developments

• Off-line Questionnaires at Statistics Netherlands – The Annual Structural Business Survey Example
  Lon Hofman, Statistics Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands
• Experiences with Multi-mode Surveys
  Mark Pierzchala, Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC U.S.A.
• New Usage of Blaise: Biometrics Inputs
  Luc Tremblay, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada

15:30-17:00 Session 9: Data Collection, Capture and Coding Systems

• Using XBRL in a Statistical Context. The Case of the Dutch Taxonomy Project
  Marko Roos, Statistics Netherlands, Heerlen, Pays-Bas
• Generalized Quality Control for Optical Data Capture within Statistics Canada
  Lampson Nguyen, Keith Davis, Cameron Oddy, Hélène St-Jean and Lillian Desousa, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• ICADE Key from Image Data Capture and Image Retrieval Platform
  Stephanie Studds, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC U.S.A.
• A Web-based High School Transcript and Course Catalog Keying and Coding System
  Donghui Wang, Tiffany Lytle, Brian Evans, Dan Pratt, Ajay Maddi and Chinh Nguyen, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, U.S.A.

17:00-19:00 Cocktail Reception

Thursday October 30, 2008

9:00-10:00 Session 10: Keynote Address:

• Robert Groves, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI U.S.A.

10:00-10:30 Poster Session:

• Coverage Evaluation of the Linkage Between the Canadian Community Health Survey and Hospital Data
  Michelle Rotermann, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• Profiling Physical Activity Patterns Among Women in Manitoba: Challenges and New Directions
  Caitlin Forsey, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
  Margaret Haworth-Brockman, The Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence, Winnipeg, Man. Canada
• Strategies for Dealing with Non-Response Follow-Up in Tobacco Cessation Studies
  Hesam Kooshesh, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont. Canada

10:30-12:00 Session 11: Quality

• Writing and Revising Questionnaire Design Guidelines
  Rebecca L. Morrison, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC U.S.A.
• Multi-Mode Data Collection: What Can Still Be Expected?
  Marina Signore, Giovanna Brancato and Giorgia Simeoni, ISTAT, Rome, Italy
• Indicators for the Representativeness of Survey Response
  Jelke Bethlehem, Fannie Cobben and Barry Schouten, Statistics Netherlands, Voorburg, The Netherlands

10:30-12:00 Session 12: Census Data Collection

• Building a Business Case for Census Internet Data Collection
  Graeme Gilmour and Lorna Bailie Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada,
  Tracy Moore, Statistics New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
• Mailing Census Questionnaires: Results from 2006 and Plans for 2011
  Sander Post, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• Changes in the Management of Data Collection Operations for the Canadian Census in 2011
  Marc Hamel, Graeme Gilmour and Garry Hamilton, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• A Census of Population based on an Administrative Register
  Carlos Ballano Fernández, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid, Spain

13:30-15:00 Session 13: Response Management Issues in Business Surveys

• Company-Centric Communication Approaches for Business Survey Response Management
  Deborah Stempowski and Robert Marske, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC U.S.A.
• Prioritizing Business Respondents to Target Important Non-Response
  Janet Hughes, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• How to Improve the Relationship with Large Complex Respondents
  Lucie Vinette, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada

13:30-15:00 Session 14: Collection via the Internet

• The Internet: A New Data Collection Method for the Census
  Anne-Marie Côté and Danielle Laroche, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• Going Web-Only in a Complex Enterprise Survey – Experiences and Lessons Learned
  Johan Erikson, Statistics Sweden, Örebro, Sweden
• Accuracy of Travel Data Samples Utilizing Online vs. Mail Methodologies
  Nandini Nadkarni and George Harmon, D.K. Shifflet & Associates Ltd., McLean, VA U.S.A.
• Can We Make Official Statistics with Self-Selection Web Surveys?
  Jelke Bethlehem, Statistics Netherlands, Voorburg, The Netherlands

15:00-15:30 Poster Session:

• Coverage Evaluation of the Linkage Between the Canadian Community Health Survey and Hospital Data
  Michelle Rotermann, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• Profiling Physical Activity Patterns Among Women in Manitoba: Challenges and New Directions
  Caitlin Forsey, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
  Margaret Haworth-Brockman, The Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence, Winnipeg, Man. Canada
• Strategies for Dealing with Non-Response Follow-Up in Tobacco Cessation Studies
  Hesam Kooshesh, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont. Canada

15:30-17:00 Session 15: Collection Management

• The Analysis of the Non-Response and the Out-of-Scope Cases as a Quality Management Tool for Field Operations.
  Tumeka Matanzima, Statistics South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
• The Interaction between Data Collection and Sample Design: Savings in a Complex Selection Process?
  Marie-Eve Tremblay and Karine Moisan, Institut de la statistique du Québec, Québec, Que. Canada.
• Accounting for Uncertainty in the Evaluation of Data Collection Costs and Data Quality under Partitioned Designs for the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Surveys
  John L. Eltinge and Jeffrey Gonzalez, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Washington, DC U.S.A.
• New Initiatives for Data Collection in the Canadian Community Health Survey
  Marie-Claude Duval, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada

15:30-17:00 Session 16: Analysing the Collection Process  Using Paradata 1

• Using Paradata to Estimate the Average Time It Would Take Respondents to Complete a Computer Assisted Telephone Interview Questionnaire
  Charles Delorme, Andrea Ness, and Ioana Schiopu-Kratina, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• Coverage and Non-Response in a Random Digit Dialling Survey: The Experience of the General Social Survey's Cycle 21 (2007)
  Isabelle Marchand, Ryan Chepita, Patrick St-Cyr and Kuawa Williams, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• An Update on ‘A Time to Interview’
  Ed Swires-Hennessy, Huw Jones and Rob Trubey, Local Government Data Unit, Wales, United Kingdom
• Using Paradata to Manage Non-Response in the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
  Beatrice Baribeau, Wisner Jocelyn, Amélie Lévesque and Owen Phillips, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada

Friday October 31, 2008

9:00-10:30 Session 17: Analysing the Collection Process  Using Paradata 2

• Data Collection Research Using Paradata at Statistics Canada
  François Laflamme, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• Identification of Optimal Call Patterns for Intensive Follow-Up in Business Surveys Using Operations Research Methods
  Louise Gates and Jill Charker, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, Australia
• Effects of Number of Call Attempts on Non-Response Rates and Non-Response Bias – Results from Some Case Studies at Statistics Sweden
  Jan Hörngren, Peter Lundquist and Sara Westling, Statistics Sweden, Örebro, Sweden

9:00-10:30 Session 18: Respondent Contact and Measurement Error Issues

• Keeping in Touch with Project Participants Between Surveys: A Mailing Experiment
  Anne Motte, Canada Millenium Scholarship Foundation, Montreal Que. Canada
  Marie-Christine Brault, University of Montreal, Montreal Que. Canada
• Is There Really Any Benefit to Mailing Out Information Letters for Random-Digit-Dialling Surveys?
  Jimmy Baulne and Robert Courtemanche, Institut de la statistique du Québec, Québec, Que. Canada.
• Methodological Issues in Anthropometry: Self-reported versus Measured Height and Weight
  Margot Shields, Sarah Connor Gorber and Mark Tremblay, Statistics Canada Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• Correcting Self-Reported Estimates Of Obesity: Can We More Closely Approximate Measured Values?
  Sarah Connor Gorber, Margot Shields, Mark Tremblay and Ian McDowell, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada 

11:00-12:15 Session 19: Response Burden

• Measure and Follow Up of the Response Burden from Enterprises and Organizations at Statistics Sweden
  Niklas Notstrand, Statistics Sweden, Örebro, Sweden
• Developing Statistics New Zealand's Respondent Load Strategy
  Rebecca Merrington, Stuart Pitts and Sarah Williams, Statistics New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
• Measuring Respondent Burden in the U.K. Office for National Statistics
  Jacqui Jones and Denise Williams, Office for National Statistics, Newport, Wales UK

11:00-12:15 Session 20: Questionnaire Design and Testing 2

• Reducing the Number of Cognitive Interviews by Adding Other Cognitive Methods of Testing
  Patricia Houle, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• Presenting 'don’t know' in Web Surveys
  Rachel Vis-Visschers, Judit Arends-Tóth, Deirdre Giesen and Vivian Meertens, Statistics Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands
• How to Develop Business Surveys Continuously in a Cyclic Model
  Pia Hartwig and Helena Bäckström, Statistics Sweden, Örebro, Sweden

13:45-15:15 Session 21: Using Administrative Data

• Real-Time Collection of Administrative Data: The National Routing System Experience
  John Menic, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• The Challenges of the Use of Administrative Data in the Survey of Employment, Payroll and Hours
  Sharon Wirth, Anthony Yeung and Anne-Marie Houle, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
• Use it or Lose It:  Mining Municipal Administrative Data
  Joshua Bates, Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Ottawa, Ont. Canada,
  Pat Steenberg, Canadian Council on Social Development, Ottawa, Ont. Canada,
  Jacob Ritchie, Acacia Consulting and Research Ottawa, Ont. Canada,
  Sarah Cannon, Regional Municipality of Peel, Brampton, Ont. Canada
• Collecting Crime Data in Canada.
  Bradley Fetter, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada

13:45-15:15 Session 22: Technological Advances for Data Collection

• Incorporating Audio File Information in Survey Data Collection
  Charles Loftis and Shane Trahan, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC U.S.A.
• Coherence Analysis – A Structured Approach to Improved Quality in National Accounts
  Anna-Greta Erikson, Statistics Sweden, Örebro, Sweden
• Enhancements to Data Collection: The Real Time Data Management System (RTMS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
  Dion Pieterson, Statistics South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

15:15-15:30 Closing Remarks

Don Royce, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ont. Canada