Symposium 2001 - Achieving data quality in a statistical agency: a methodological perspective

The Unified Enterprise Annual Survey - its Approach to Quality
Stuart Pursey, Jocelyn Tourigny and Patricia Whitridge, Statistics Canada

The European Union Labour Force Survey on the Way to Convergence and Quality
Hubert Charlier and Ana Franco, Eurostat

Ensuring the Quality of the Labor Force Estimates from the Current Population Survey: A Total Survey Perspective
Lawrence Cahoon, Patrick Flanagan and Karen Deaver, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Discussant: Philip Smith, Statistics Canada

Impact of the Collection Mode on the Results of a Québec Health Survey
France Lapointe , Robert Courtemanche, Yann Latulippe and Lucille Pica, Institut de la statistique du Québec, Canada

Data Accuracy: How good are our Usual Indicators?
Peter Mariolis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Testing the Mode Effects in the Finnish Consumer Survey
Pertti Kangassalo and Markku Heiskanen, Statistics Finland

Data Collection Methods for the 2001 Census of Agriculture
Claire Bradshaw, Joseph Duggan, Claude Julien and Rosemary Villani, Statistics Canada

Improving Measures of Crime: Sample Adjustments to Police Crime Data
James J. Nolan, III, West Virginia University, USA, Yoshio Akiyama and James A. Woods, Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA

Evaluating the Reasonableness of Data: Using Cross Ratios and Chi-Square Measures
Yoshio Akiyama and Samuel Berhanu, Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA

Data Detectives: Uncovering Systematic Errors in Administrative Databases
Sten Ardal and Sherri Ennis, Central East Health Information Partnership, Canada

An Information-Rich Environment: Linked-Record Systems and Data Quality in Canada
Leslie L. Roos, Laurel Jebamani and Ruth-Ann Soodeen, Manitoba Center for Health Policy and Research, Canada

Leslie Kish's Impact on Survey Statistics
Graham Kalton, WESTAT, USA

Still Rolling: Leslie Kish's “Rolling Samples” and the American Community Survey
Charles H. Alexander, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Leslie Kish: Development of Statistics Internationally
Vijay Verma, Opinion Research Corporation International, UK

Respondent Perspectives on Census Data Collection via the Internet
Ed Chartrand, Statistics Canada

Recent Developments in Electronic Data Collection at the U.S. Census Bureau
Barbara Sedivi Gaul, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Statistics New Zealand: Recent Developments in Electronic Data Collection
Nancy McBeth, Stuart Pitts and Steven Johnston, Statistics New Zealand

Electronic Data Reporting: Recent Developments at the Australian Bureau of Statistics
Rob Burnside and Emma Farrell, Australian Bureau of Statistics

On Measuring the Quality of Indirect Small Area Estimates
Jon N. K. Rao, Carleton University, Canada

Evaluation of Error Components in Small Domain Estimators
John L. Eltinge, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Evaluation of Small Area Estimation Methods - An Application to Unemployment Estimates from the UK LFS
Gary Brown, Patrick Heady and Dick Heasman, Office for National Statistics, UK and Ray Chambers, University of Southampton, UK

Discussant: Bill Bell, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Evaluating Frame Coverage and Activity of Micro-businesses in Sawmilling in the UK
Paul Smith, Forestry Commission, UK

Quality Assurance Challenges in the United States' Census 2000
David Whitford and Jennifer Reichert, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Korea's Experiences in Statistical Quality Assessment
Dongmyeong Lee and Aelee Shon, Korean National Statistical Office

Benchmarking the Performance of Statistical Agencies
Valena White Plisko, Mariann Lemke and Marilyn Seastrom, National Center for Education Statistics, USA, Daniel Kasprzyk, Mathematica Policy Research, USA

Coordinating Samples Using the Microstrata Methodology
Pascal Rivière, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, France and University of Southampton, UK

Editing and Imputation in a Standard Economic Processing System
Richard Sigman, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Aligning Estimates by Repeated Weighting
Bert Kroese, Robert H. Renssen and Ad J. Willeboordse, Statistics Netherlands

Designing a Questionnaire on the Confidentiality Perceptions of Business Respondents
Kristin Stettler and Diane K. Willimack, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Strategies to Implement Electronic Collection of Multiple Worksite Report Data
Michael Searson, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Report of Tests of Strategies to Increase Response Rates from Physicians
Patricia M. Gallagher and Alison Hauser, University of Massachusetts, USA, Edward Guadagnoli and Nancy Keating, Harvard Medical School, USA

Preventing Nonresponse in the Canadian Community Health Survey
Yves Béland, Johane Dufour and Marc Hamel, Statistics Canada

Cut-off Sampling and Estimation
Hanna Elisson and Eva Elvers, Statistics Sweden

Collecting Vehicle Use Data: The Canadian Vehicle Survey Experience
Adam Wronski, Statistics Canada

Procedures to Account for Entries in Business Surveys
Carol S. King and Robert E. Struble, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Measuring the Electronic Economy at the U.S. Census Bureau
Barabra Kathryn Atrostic, John Gates and Ron Jarmin, U.S. Bureau of the Census

The Development of the UK Annual Business Inquiry (ABI)
Gareth Jones, Office for National Statistics, UK

Redesign of the French Census of Population
Jean-Michel Durr and Jean Dumais, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, France

Building Quality in Census 2000
Howard Hogan, Janet Cummings, David Whitford, James Treat and Jennifer Reichert, U.S. Bureau of the Census

The Census Coverage Survey - the Key Element of a One Number Census
Richard Pereira, Office for National Statistics, UK

Correcting for Non-Response in Indirect Sampling
Pierre Lavallée, Statistics Canada

Using National Registrations to Correct for Selective Non-Response. Political Preference of Ethnic Groups
Jacques P.G. Janssen and Hans Schmeets, Statistics Netherlands

Nonresponse Bias Analyses at the National Center for Education Statistics
Jonaki Bose, National Center for Education Statistics, USA

Using Matched Census-Survey Records to Evaluate the Quality of Survey Data
Amanda White, Stephanie Freeth and Jean Martin, Office for National Statistics, UK

A Method for Short Term Estimation of Labour Input Using Current Preliminary Data from Administrative Sources Having Coverage Errors
Ciro Baldi, Piero Demetrio Falorsi, Alessandro Pallara and Raffaella Succi, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Italy and Aldo Russo, Università di Roma, Italy

The French Survey of Homeless People Using Shelter and Soup Kitchens
Cécile Brousse, Bernadette Guiot de la Rochère and Emmanuel Massé, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, France

The Confidence of an Optimal Sampling Size Based on Previous Data
Charles M. Fleming and Richard McGuinness, National Agriculture Statistics Service, Department of Agriculture, USA

A Comparison of a Modified Tillé's Sampling Procedure to Poisson Sampling
John G. Slanta and Gary L. Kusch, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Hot Deck Imputation for the Response Model
Wayne Fuller, Iowa State University, USA and Jae Kwang Kim, WESTAT, USA

Estimating Interviewer Effects for Binary Responses
Alastair Scott, University of Auckland, New Zealand

The Effect of Record Linkage Errors on Statistical Inference in Cohort Mortality Studies
Daniel Krewski, University of Ottawa, Canada, Y. Wang, S. Bartlett, J.M. Zielinski, Health Canada and R. Mallick, Carleton University, Canada

Quality Measurement - Eurostat Experiences
Werner Grünwald and Håken Linden, Eurostat

Developing New Quality Indicators in Social Surveys
Lucy Haselden and Amanda White, Office for National Statistics, UK

Response Rates as an Effective Tool in Managing Data Quality
Marilyn Seastrom, National Center for Education Statistics, USA

Estimating Sampling Errors for Movements in the UK Index of Production
Susan Full and Daniel Lewis, Office for National Statistics, UK

SESSION 16 - QUALITY OF HOSPITAL MORBIDITY DATA

The Data Quality Study of the Canadian Discharge Abstract Database
Ann Brown, Statistics Canada, Craig Homan and Julie Richards, Canadian Institute for Health Information

The Quality of Indigenous Identification and Other Demographic Data in Australian Hospital Morbidity Records
Jenny Hargreaves, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data Quality in the National Hospital Discharge Survey
Tommy McLemore and Robert Pokras, National Center for Health Statistics, USA

Discussant: Craig Seko, Statistics Canada

Protecting Confidentiality while Preserving Quality of Public Use Micro Data
Avinash. C. Singh, Moshe Feder, George Dunteman and Feng Yu, Research Triangle Institute, USA

Disclosure Auditing in Rounded Tables
Nancy Kirkendall, Ruey-Pyng Lu, and Mark A. Schipper, Energy Information Administration, USA and Stephen F. Roehrig, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

On Disclosure Protection for Non-traditional Statistical Outputs: Kernell Density Estimators
David R. Merrell, University of California at Los Angeles, USA and Arnold P. Reznek, Bureau of Commerce, USA

2002 Economic Census electronic style guide
Mary Diane Harley, Kimberly Pressley and Elizabeth Murphy, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Usability Testing and Cognitive Interviewing to Support Economic Forms Development for the 2002 U.S. Economic Census
Amy E. Anderson, Elizabeth Nichols and Kimberly Pressley, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Data Collection Initiatives and the Collection of Business Data in the Office for National Statistics
Peter Thomas and David Baird, Office for National Statistics, UK

Are Representative Internet Surveys Possible?
Tom W. Smith, University of Chicago, USA

The Challenge of Improving the Quality of Internationally Comparable Data
Denise Lievesley, UNESCO Institute for Statistics

Developing Comparative Benchmarks on the Performance of Education Systems in a Changing World - the OECD Education Indicators
Andreas Scheicher, OECD

Summit of the Americas Regional Education Indicators Program: Data Quality Challenges
Vivian Heyl and Paula Darville, Ministerio de Educación, Chile

Commercial Telephone Samples and Component Outcome Rates
Claude Comeau, Comeau Associates, USA and Peter Mariolis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Data Estimation in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program
Yoshio Akiyama and Samuel Berhanu, Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA

Coverage Issues in the Canadian Labour Force Survey
Sander Post and Charlene Walker, Statistics Canada

A Statistical Analysis of Response Rates
Hans Bay, National Institute of Social Research, Denmark

Quality Measurement and Reporting in the UK Office for National Statistics
Susan Full, Marta Haworth and Andrew Stephens, Office for National Statistics, UK

Qualifying Quality: Issues of Presentation and Education
Bill Allen, Australian Bureau of Statistics

Role of the Integrated Metadatabase at Statistics Canada
Paul Johanis, Statistics Canada

Discussant: Daniel Kasprzyk, Mathematica Policy Research, USA

Construction of Imputation Cells for the Canadian Labour Force Survey
David Haziza, Ophelia Chow, Cédric Charbonnier, Jean-François Beaumont, Statistics Canada

Evaluating the Impact of Alternative Edit Parameters on Data Quality
Katherine Jenny Thompson, Samson Adeshiyan and Michael Walkup, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Challenges in Developing and Implementing New Data Editing Methods for Business Surveys
Pam Tate, Ceri Underwood, Pat Thomas and Cheryl Small, Office for National Statistics, UK

Optimization Techniques for Edit Validation and Data Imputation
Renato Bruni, Università di Roma, Alessandra Reale and Renato Torelli, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Italy

Methodological problems raised by an international survey - The International Adult Literacy Survey
Alain Blum and France Guérin-Pace, Institut National d’Études Démographiques, France

Response Error Reinterview of the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey
Sharon R. Ennis and David E. Miller, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Estimation of Simple and Correlated Measurement Variance when First and Second Interviews Use Different Survey Modes
Piero Falorsi, Marco Fortini and Asessandro Pallara, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Italy

Interview Cooperation and Procedural Response Quality
Su-hao Tu, Office of Survey Research, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

“How important is Accuracy?”

Gordon Brackstone, Statistics Canada

Graham Kalton, Westat, USA

Fritz Scheuren, Urban Institute, USA