Program (updated October 26, 2009)

Tuesday October 27, 2009

9:00-16:30 Workshops

• Workshop 1: Some Selected Topics on Analysis of Longitudinal Survey Data CANCELLED
  
• Workshop 2: Over 15 Years of Longitudinal Surveys at Statistics Canada: Lessons and Innovations FULL
  Michelle Simard and François Brisebois, Statistics Canada, Canada
• Workshop 3: Multilevel Modeling of Longitudinal Data FULL
  Sophia Rabe-Hesketh from Graduate School of Education, University of California (Berkeley), U.S.A. and
  Anders Skrondal from the Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway

Wednesday October 28, 2009

8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks

• François Maranda, Statistics Canada, Canada

9:00-10:00 Session 1 - Keynote Address

• The Methodological Research Agenda for Longitudinal Surveys
  Peter Lynn, University of Essex, UK

10:30-12:00 Session 2 - Event History Data Collection

• A Triangulated Approach to Evaluating ELSA’s Event History Calendar
  Alice McGee and Hayley Cripps, National Centre for Social Research, UK
  Joanne Pascale, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S.A.
• Tracing Life Courses with Prospective Panel Surveys – Lessons from the German Family Panel Study
  Josef Brüderl, Laura Castiglioni, Ulrich Krieger, Volker Ludwig and Klaus Pforr, University of Mannheim, Germany
• A Comparison of Survey Reports Obtained via Standard Questionnaire and Event History Calendar
  Jeffrey Moore, Jason Fields, Joanne Pascale, Gary Benedetto, Martha Stinson and Anna Chan, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S.A.

10:30-12:00 Session 3 - Attrition Bias and Nonresponse Weighting

• Evaluation and Selection of Models for Attrition Nonresponse Adjustment
  Eric Slud and Leroy Bailey, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S.A.
• Nonresponse Weight Adjustments Using Multiple Imputation for the UK Millennium Cohort Study
  John W. McDonald and Sosthenes C. Ketende, University of London, UK
• Analysis of Nonresponse in the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
  Mike Tam and Agnes Waye, Statistics Canada, Canada

13:30-15:00 Session 4 - Data Collection and Linkage

• Maintaining Contact with PSID Families between Waves: An Experimental Test of a New Strategy
  Katherine McGonagle, Mick Couper and Robert Schoeni, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
• Mixed and Multiple Collection Modes: The HILDA Survey Experience
  Mark Wooden, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Managing Complex Inexact Matching in Coding and Linkage Applications
  Michael J. Wenzowski, Statistics Canada, Canada
• Managing Respondent Relations on the National Population Health Survey
  Andrew MacKenzie and Natasha Zaletel, Statistics Canada, Canada

13:30-15:00 Session 5 - Analysis of Longitudinal Survey Data

• A Simulation Study of Calibration Methods for Estimation of Gross Flows
  Marcel de Toledo Vieira, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  Gad Nathan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Loss to Follow-up and Cox PH Modeling of Jobless Spells from SLID
  Dagmar Mariaca Hajducek and Jerry Lawless, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Issues in the Use of Structural Equation Modeling with Longitudinal Public-Release Data Files
  Laura Stapleton, University of Maryland, U.S.A.

15:30-17:00 Session 6 - Issues in Economic Surveys

• The Construction of a Prototype of the Italian LEED Based on Administrative Data: Main Methodological Aspects
  Carla Congia and Roberta Rizzi, ISTAT, Italy
• Are prices surveys sample designs robust to aging weights?: A Simulation Study
  Zdenek Patak, Statistics Canada, Canada
  Daniele Toninelli, University of Bergamo, Italy
• Adding a longitudinal Component to the Statistics Canada Agriculture Tax Data Program
  Terri Blanchard and Peter Xiao, Statistics Canada, Canada
• Longitudinal Surveys on Hard-to-Trace Populations
  E.J. Reedy, Kauffman Foundation, U.S.A.

15:30-17:00 Session 7 - Synthetic Data Approaches to Confidentiality

• Analytical Validity and Confidentiality Protection in Longitudinally Integrated Statistical Data Systems
  John M. Abowd, Cornell University, U.S.A.
• Summary of Methods and Preliminary Assessment of the SIPP Synthetic Beta, version 5.0
  Gary Benedetto and Martha Stinson, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S.A.
  Melissa Bjelland, Cornell University, U.S.A.
• Synthetic Data Creation for the Cross National Equivalent File
  Jean-François Beaumont and Cynthia Bocci, Statistics Canada, Canada

Thursday October 29, 2009

9:00-10:00 Session 8 - Waksberg Award Winner Address

• Methods for Oversampling Rare Subpopulations in Social Surveys
  Graham Kalton, Westat, U.S.A.

10:30-12:00 Session 9 - Longitudinal Health Data: Issues and Challenges

• Establishing a Longitudinal Community Health Research Methodology: Issues and Challenges
  David Marshall, University of Queensland, Australia
• Analysis of the Longitudinal Health Approach Implemented in Belgium
  Ann Ingenbleek, Yves Coppieters and Alain Levêque, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  Lies Lammens and Patrick Deboosere, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  Florence Cols and William D’hoore, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Ethical Implications of Longitudinal Data Collection on Both the Individual and the Societal Level
  Lies Lammens and Patrick Deboosere, Vrij Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  Florence Cols and William D’hoore, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  Ann Ingenbleek, Yves Coppieters and Alain Levêque, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Contribution of administrative and medical administrative databases to the Constances cohort
  A. Gueguen, R. Sitta, JL. Lanoe, M. Goldberg and M. Zins, INSERM, France
  L. Bénézet and G. Santin, Institut de veille sanitaire, France

10:30-12:00 Session 10 - Data Collections Issues in Longitudinal Survey

• Keeping in Touch with Mobile Families in the UK Millennium Cohort Study
  Lisa Calderwood, University of London, UK
• Organization and monitoring of the survey area: Impact on estimator quality for a rotating household panel
  Thomas Christin, Stéphane Fleury and Johan Pea, Federal Statistical Office, Switzerland
• Responsive Design for the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
  Owen Phillips and Tracy Tabuchi, Statistics Canada, Canada

10:30-12:00 Session 11 - Weighting and Estimation

• Propensity Score Weight Adjustment for Dual Sampling Frame
  C. Boudreau, M.E. Thompson and M. Iraniparast, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Longitudinal Estimation in the European Survey of Income and Living Conditions
  Ralf Münnich and Stefan Zins, University of Trier, Germany
• Weighting and Variance Estimation for the German Dual Frame Household Panel Survey “PASS”
  Hans Kiesl, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany

13:30-15:00 Session 12 - Accommodating Missing Data in Longitudinal Survey Data Analysis

• Modelling and Analysis of Durations Based on Longitudinal Survey Data
  Jerry Lawless and Dagmar Mariaca Hajducek, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys with Missing Responses
  Changbao Wu, University of Waterloo, Canada
  Ivan Carrillo Garcia, Statistics Canada, Canada
• Longitudinal Studies with Missing Response and Missing Covariate: An Application to the ITC4 Survey Study
  Baojiang Chen, University of Washington, U.S.A.
  Mary Thompson, University of Waterloo, Canada

13:30-15:00 Session 13 - Factors and Impacts of Non-Response

• Factors Associated with Different Patterns of Non-Response in English Longitudinal Study Of Ageing (ELSA)
  Hayley Cheshire and David Hussey, National Centre for Social Research, UK
• Empirical Investigation of Nonresponse Bias Due to Attrition in National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG)
  Donsig Jang, Mathematica Policy Research, U.S.A.
  John Finamore and David Hall, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S.A.
  Steve Cohen, Flora Lan and Fan Zhang, National Science Foundation, U.S.A.
• Factors associated with participation in the GAZEL cohort
  Marie Zins, Jean François Chastang, Mireille Coeuret-Pellicer, Annette Leclerc, Sébastien Bonenfant, Alice Guéguen, Anna Ozguler and Marcel Goldberg, INSERM, France
• Strategies for studying non-response bias in the Coset (Cohorte santé et travail) and Constances (Cohorte des consultants des centres d’examens de santé) cohort
  Laetitia Bénézet, Gaëlle Santin, Stéphanie Gauvin, Hélène Sarter and Béatrice Geoffroy-Perez, Institut de veille sanitaire, France
  Alice Guéguen, Rémi Sitta, Marie Zins and Marcel Goldberg, INSERM, France
  Nicolas Razafindratsima, Institut National d’études démographiques, France

15:30-17:00 Session 14 - General Methodological Issues

• Sample Allocation for the 2010 Decade of the National Survey of College Graduates
  John Finamore and David Hall, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S.A.
  Donsig Jang, Mathematica Policy Research, U.S.A.
  Stephen Cohen, Flora Lan and Fan Zhang, National Science Foundation, U.S.A.
• The Life Pathways Project: Design and Methodological Issues
  Trivina Kang, Melvin Chan, Tan Teck Kiang and David Hogan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Using tax and social insurance data to measure living conditions in Switzerland
  Philippe Wanner, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Experiences with the Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Data at Statistics New Zealand
  Deborah Brunning, Statistics New Zealand, New Zealand

15:30-17:00 Session 15 - Redesign of Large-scale Longitudinal Surveys

• Continuity and Innovation in the Design of Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study
  Heather Laurie, University of Essex, UK
• Survival and Revival of the Survey of Income and Program Participation
  S. Johnson, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S.A.
• Results from the Canadian Household Panel Survey Pilot
  Andrew Heisz, Statistics Canada, Canada

15:30-17:00 Session 16 - Latent Models and Bayesian Estimation

• Latent Growth Curve Modelling of Life Satisfaction Trajectories in the British Household Panel Survey
  Maria de Fátima Salgueiro, ISCTE Business School, Portugal
  Marcel de Toledo Vieira, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  Peter W. F. Smith, University of Southampton, UK
  
• A Latent Transition Analysis Approach to Modeling Unobserved Population Heterogeneity over Time
  Andy Ross, National Centre for Social Research, UK
• Longitudinal Mixed-Membership Models for Survey Data on Disability
  Daniel Manrique-Vallier and Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
• Analyzing Longitudinal Mixed Categorical Outcomes with Potential Missing Data Using a Bayesian Approach
  Z. Rezaei Ghahroodi and S. Eftekhari, Statistical Research and Training Center, Iran
  M. Ganjali, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

Friday October 30, 2009

9:00-10:15 Session 17 - Measurement Errors

• Nonresponse and Measurement Error in Employment Research
  Frauke Kreuter, JPSM University of Maryland, U.S.A.
  Gerrit Mueller and Mark Trappmann, IAB Institute for Employment Research, Germany
• Inconsistencies in Reported Job Characteristics among Employed Stayers: Evidence from a Series of Two-Wave Panels from the Italian Labour Force Survey, 1993-2003
  Francesca Bassi and Ugo Trivellato, University of Padova, Italy
  Alessandra Padoan, ISTAT, Italy
• Challenges and Insights from Overlapping Seams in the HILDA Survey
  Nicole Watson, University of Melbourne, Australia

9:00-10:15 Session 18 - Imputation

• Usefulness of Imputation in Longitudinal Surveys
  Roberto Gismondi, ISTAT, Italy
• On Balanced Random Imputation in Surveys
  David Haziza, Université de Montréal, Canada
  Guillaume Chauvet and Jean-Claude Deville, Laboratoire de Statistique d’Enquête (CREST/ENSAI), France
• Testing New Imputation Methods for Earnings in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
  Martha Stinson and Gary Benedetto, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S.A.

10:45-12:15 Session 19 - Edit and Imputation

• EU-SILC in Slovenia – Experiences so far
  Rudi Seljak, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia
• Longitudinal Data Editing for the Italian LFS
  Simona Rosati and Barbara Boschetto, Istat, Italy
• Imputation of Longitudinal Registers: The Households Case
  D.J. (Jan) van der Laan and Léander Kuijvenhoven, Statistics Netherlands, The Netherlands

10:45-12:15 Session 20 - Application: Longitudinal Analysis of Health and Business data

• The Children of Older First-time Mothers in Canada: a Longitudinal Analysis of their Health and Development
  Tracey Bushnik and Rochelle Garner, Statistics Canada, Canada
• Life Course BMI and Height Trajectories: A Comparison of Two British Birth Cohorts
  Leah Li, Rebecca Hardy, Diana Kuh and Chris Power, University College London, UK
• Impact of training on the productivity of Canadian businesses in a longitudinal context: Comparison of an additive model and an interactive model
  Amélie Bernier and Jean-Michel Cousineau, Université de Montréal, Canada
• Workers’ mobility: A Review and Some New Results from the Workplace and Employee Survey
  Yves Decady, Statistics Canada, Canada

13:45-15:00 Session 21 - Longitudinal Data Analysis Techniques

• On the Use of Exploratory and Confirmatory Longitudinal Data Analysis Techniques
  Marcel de Toledo Vieira, Ronaldo Rocha Bastos and Henrique Steinherz Hippert, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  Augusto Carvalho Souza, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Goodness-of-Fit Measures for Models Based on Generalized Estimating Equations Approach
  Punam Pahwa, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Fitting general linear model for longitudinal survey data under informative sampling
  Abdulhakeem A.H. Eideh, Al-Quds University, Palestine

13:45-15:00 Session 22 - Adjusting for Non-Response and Attrition

• Sample Loss from Cohort Studies: Patterns, Characteristics and Adjustments
  Ian Plewis, University of Manchester, UK
  Lisa Calderwood, Sosthenes Ketende and Rebecca Taylor, Institute of Education, UK
• Analysis of attrition in the Longitudinal Study of Child Development in Quebec (ÉLDEQ) from 1998 to 2008
  Catherine Fontaine and Robert Courtemanche, Institut de la statistique du Québec, Canada
• Modelling non-response for a longitudinal survey using paradata: Application to the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
  Beatrice Baribeau and Wisner Jocelyn, Statistics Canada, Canada

15:15-15:30 Closing Remarks

• John Kovar, Statistics Canada, Canada