Abstracts and proceedings

Symposium 2006 : Methodological Issues in Measuring Population Health

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• Opening remarks
• Session 1 - Keynote Address
• Session 2
• Session 3
• Session 4
• Session 5
• Session 6
• Session 7
• Session 8
• Session 9
• Session 10
• Session 11
• Session 12
• Session 13
• Session 14
• Closing remarks
• Poster Session

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Opening remarks

• François Maranda, Statistics Canada

Session 1 - Keynote address

• Measuring health in population surveys
  Graham Kalton

Session 2

• Using the t-distribution to deal with outliers in small area estimation
  William R. Bell and Elizabeth T. Huang
• Robust mean squared prediction error estimators of EBLUP of a small area total under the Fay-Herriot model
  Shijie Chen, P. Lahiri, J.N.K. Rao
• Robust Bayesian predictive inference for the finite population quantile of a small area
  Balgobin Nandram, and Jai Won Choi
• Mixed linear nonlinear aggregate level models for small area estimation from surveys of binary counts
  A.C. Singh and F. Verret

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Session 3

• Studying scenarios of nutrition intervention: the example of soft drinks
  Didier Garriguet
• Obesity rate differences between U.S. and Canadian women and between U.S. and Canadian men: Findings from the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health
  Jane F. Gentleman, PhD, Debra L. Blackwell, PhD, and Michael E. Martinez, MPH, MHSA
• Estimating child BMI growth curves for Canada
  Stéphane Tremblay, Rebecca Morrison, and Mark Tremblay
• Methodologicalchallenges in analyzing nutrition data from the Canadian Community Health Survey - Nutrition
  François Verret

Session 4

• Flexible models for analyzing longitudinal data in population health
  Joel A. Dubin
• Estimation of attributable number of deaths and standard errors from simple and complex sampled cohorts
  Barry I. Graubard, Mitchell H. Gail, Katherine M. Flegal, David F. Williamson
• Complex sampling design based familial longitudinal health data analysis: an overview
  Brajendra Sutradhar
• Measurement error in life history data
  Grace Y. Yi and Wenqing He

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Session 5

• Methodology of evaluating the quality of probabilistic linking
  Glenys Bishop and Jonathon Khoo
• A case study in using model-assisted estimation to integrate survey and administrative data
  Robert E. Fay
• Merging area-level census data with survey and administrative data
  Denis Gonthier, Tina Hotton, Cynthia Cook, and Russell Wilkins
• Deterministic and probabilistic record linkage
  Claude Nadeau, Marie P. Beaudet and Jocelyne Marion

Session 6

• Variable selection models for weight trimming
  Michael Elliott
• Evaluation of methods for outlier detection and treatment in the U.S. Survey of Occupational Illnesses and Injuries
  John L. Eltinge
• Combining information from two surveys to improve on analyses of self-reported data in estimating measures of health
  Nathaniel Schenker, Trivellore E. Raghunathan, and Irina Bondarenko
• Combining cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey
  Steven Thomas

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Session 7

• Direct health measures surveys in Finland
  Arpo Aromaa
• The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: what forty years of experience has taught us
  Clifford L. Johnson
• Learning the unique and peculiar challenges of direct health measures surveys: the Canadian experience
  Mark S. Tremblay

Session 8 - Waksberg Address

• The analysis of population-based case control studies
  Alastair Scott

Session 9

• Data sparseness in contextual population health research: effects of small group size and cluster analysis on linear and non-linear multilevel models
  Philippa Clarke, Patricia O’Campo, and Blair Wheaton
• Estimation of regression parameters with survey data
  Wayne A. Fuller and Yu Y. Wu
• Bootstrap methods for analyzing complex sample survey data
  J. N. K. Rao
• Causal inference in observational studies using health administrative data
  Therese A Stukel

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Session 10

• Wireless substitution in the U.S. and Canada: prevalence and impact on random-digit-dialed health surveys
  Stephen J. Blumberg and Julian V. Luke
• Accounting for a significant methodological change in analyzing Canadian Community Health Survey data
  Luc Côté and Robert Courtemanche
• Impact of telephone versus face to face repeat 24-hour recall interviews on food and nutrition surveys
  Stephen Hayward
• Exploring the impact of participant reluctance on data quality in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
  Catherine M. Simile, Barbara Stussman and James M. Dahlhamer

Session 11

• Sample design of the Canadian Health Measures Survey
  Suzelle Giroux
• On reuse of clusters in repeated studies
  Stanislav Kolenikov and Gustavo Angeles
• Challenges in the design of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
  Leyla Mohadjer, and Lester R. Curtin
• Simulation-based randomized systematic PPS sampling under substitution of units
  Mary E. Thompson and Changbao Wu

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Session 12

• International comparisons in measuring health states: experiences from the world health surveys
  Somnath Chatterji
• Measuring the health of populations: the conceptual and analytic approach of the Global Burden of Disease Study
  Colin D. Mathers
• A research agenda for developing comparable measures of functional health status for use in population surveys
  Chris Murray

Session 13

• Application of statistical disclosure methods to the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program Database
  Ann Brown and Margaret Herbert
• Masking for discrete variables
  Myron J. Katzoff and Jay J. Kim
• Disclosure risk and variance estimation
  W. Wilson Lu and Randy R. Sitter
• Creation of public use micro-data files for the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
  Feng Yu, Lanting Dai, Moshe Feder, and James R. Chromy

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Session 14

• Sampling the Maori population in the 2006/2007 New Zealand Health Survey
  Robert G. Clark and Sarah Gerritsen
• Developmentand testing of a caregiver-proxy child health questionnaire for the New Zealand Health Survey
  Sarah Gerritsen
• Discussion and presentation of the disability test results from the Current Population Survey
  Terence M. McMenamin, Stephen M. Miller and Anne E. Polivka
• Methodological issues in measuring the mental health of children and young people in Great Britain
  Meltzer, H., Wilmot, A. and Dewar, A.

Closing remarks

• Don Royce

Poster Session

• Development and design of the Ontario Tobacco Survey
  Bondy S, Brown KS, Cohen J, Ferrence R, Garcia J, McDonald P, Selby P, Stephens T, Diemert LM, Victor JC
• Validation of qualitative methodology applied to a multidimensional instrument with an open question
  José Eduardo Corrente, Cinthia Esbrile Moraes, Tania Ruiz
• Exploring the impact of participant reluctance on data quality in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
  James M. Dahlhamer, Catherine M. Simile, Beth Taylor
• The impact of unconditional incentives upon a multi-stage survey: the Health Survey for England
  Heather Wardle, Claire Deverill
• Modelling life expectancy at birth in small cities in Canada
  Philippe Finès, PhD.
  Acknowledgements: Jean-Marie Berthelot, Russell Wilkins
• The effect of model specification on multiply imputed data: lessons learned from Project DC-HOPE
  Marie G. Gantz and M. Nabil El-Khorazaty for the NIH-DC Initiative
• Hospital separations: identification of records for use in tabulating national injury data
  Susan G. Mackenzie
• Immigrant populations and myocardial infarctions
  Maria Gabriela Orzanco, Alain Vanasse, Josiane Courteau
• A comparison of self-reported primary mental health care utilization in the Canadian Community Health Survey with respondents' provincial health insurance records
  JoAnne Palin
• Geovisualization of health and social capital data derived from Statistics Canada surveys
  Daniel Rainham, Daniel Krewski, Ian McDowell and Mike Sawada
• Health studies using administrative hospital data
  Christie Sambell, Hude Quan, Helen Johansen
• Estimating sample size for complex surveys: building consensus in an environment of multiple hypotheses, multiple stakeholders and limited budgets
  Victor JC, O’Connor S, Diemert LM, Bondy S, Brown KS, Cohen J, Ferrence R, Garcia J, McDonald P, Selby P, Stephens T
• Impact number of repeat 24 hour recall interviews on estimation of usual intakes from food and nutrition surveys
  M. Vigneault, E. Junkins, S. Hayward