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Symposium 2008: Data Collection: Challenges, Achievements and New Directions

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• Opening Remarks
• Session 1 - Waksberg Award Address
• Session 2
• Session 3
• Session 4
• Session 5
• Session 6
• Session 7
• Session 8
• Session 9
• Session 10 - Keynote Address
• Session 11
• Session 12
• Session 13
• Session 14
• Session 15
• Session 16
• Session 17
• Session 18
• Session 19
• Session 20
• Session 21
• Session 22
• Closing Remarks
• Poster Session

Opening Remarks

• Opening Remarks
  François Maranda

Session 1 - Waksberg Award Address

• International Surveys: Motives and Methodologies
  Mary E. Thompson

Session 2

• Statistics Canada Collection Business Architecture: Overview of the Approach, Lessons Learned and Future Plans
  Mourad Faid
• Organisation of Data Collection Methodology Services in the Australian Bureau of Statistics
  Kettie Hewett and Emma Farrell
• The Organisation of Collection Functions at Statistics New Zealand
  Sarah Williams and Lyn Kaye
• 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

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Session 3

• Searching for the Silver Bullet: Are EIA’s Current Tools Adequate for Designing and Testing EIA Business Surveys?
  Stanley R. Freedman
• “Don’t touch that ..., you don’t know where it has been!”: Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing and Question Recycling
  N. Graham Hughes, Martin Bulmer and Julie Gibbs
• Development and Implementation Issues for a Survey Question on Sexual Identity
  Joseph Traynor
• Testing for the 2011 Census of Canada
  Marie-Noëlle Parent and Heather Lathe

Session 4

• Selection Models for Evaluating Assumptions of Methods that Compensate for Missing Values in Sample Surveys
  Philip J. Smith
• The Effect of Non-response Follow-up in a Survey on Living Conditions among Immigrants in Norway
  Johan Fosen, Gustav Haraldsen and Øyvin Kleven
• Nonresponse Bias Analysis Using Reluctant Respondents Who Responded After Receiving Monetary Incentives
  Donsig Jang, Xiaojing Lin and Kelly H. Kang

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Session 5

• Statistics Canada’s Computer-Assisted Personal Interview Monitoring Program
  Caroline Pelletier and Edward Joseph
• Computer Audio-Recorded Interviewing (CARI): A Tool for Monitoring Field Interviewers and Improving Field Data Collection
  M. Rita Thissen, Carl Fisher, Lillie Barber and Sridevi Sattaluri
• CARI: A Tool for Improving Data Quality Now and the Next Time
  Wendy Hicks, Brad Edwards, Karen Tourangeau, Lauren Harris-Kojetin, Abigail Moss and Brett McBride

Session 6

• Methods for Avoiding Non-Response Bias in Academic Business Surveys
  Ezgi Akpinar and Tony Hak
• Telephone Data Entry as the Primary Mode of Response to Short Term Surveys at the Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom
  Elspeth Maclean, Mark Peck, Gemma Hamilton and Daniel Lewis
• Comparisons of Collection Follow-Up Score Functions
  Hansheng Xie

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Session 7

• Evaluation and Treatment of Non-response in the ELFE Cohort: Results of the Pilot Studies
  Hélène Sarter, Nicolas Razafindratsima and the ELFE team
• The Reliability of Children’s Survey Responses: The Impact of Cognitive Functioning on Respondent Behavior
  Marek Fuchs
• Data Collection for the Health Component (2008-2009) of the Longitudinal Study of Child Development in Quebec (ÉLDEQ)
  Nancy Illick and Bertrand Perron
• 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

Session 8

• Off-line Questionnaires at Statistics Netherlands – The Annual Structural Business Survey Example
  Lon Hofman
• Experiences with Multimode Surveys
  Mark Pierzchala
• New Usage of Blaise: Biometrics Inputs
  Luc Tremblay

Session 9

• The Dutch Taxonomy Project in a Statistical Context
  Marko Roos
• Generalized Quality Control for Optical Data Capture at Statistics Canada
  Lampson Nguyen, Keith Davis, Cameron Oddy, Hélène St-Jean and Lillian Melki
• iCADE the Data Capture System of the U.S. Census Bureau
  Stephanie Studds
• A Web Based High School Transcript and Course Catalog Keying and Coding System
  Donghui Wang, Tiffany Mattox, Brian Evans, Daniel Pratt and Chinh Nguyen

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Session 10 - Keynote Address

• Dynamic Survey Design Managed by Modeled Paradata
  Robert Groves

Session 11

• Writing and Revising Questionnaire Design Guidelines
  Rebecca L. Morrison
• Multi-mode Data Collection: What Can Still Be Expected?
  Marina Signore, Giovanna Brancato and Giorgia Simeoni
• Indicators for the Representativeness of Survey Response
  Jelke Bethlehem, Fannie Cobben and Barry Schouten

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Session 12

• Building a Business Case for Census Internet Data Collection
  Tracy Moore, Lorna Bailie and Graeme Gilmour
• Mailing Census Questionnaires: Results from 2006 and Plans for 2011
  Sander Post
• Changes in the Management of Data Collection Operations for the Canadian Census in 2011
  Marc Hamel, Garry Hamilton and Graeme Gilmour
• A Census of Population Based on an Administrative Register
  Carlos Ballano

Session 13

• Company-Centric Communication Approaches for Business Survey Response Management
  Robert Marske and Deborah M. Stempowski
• Prioritizing Business Respondents to Target Important Non-Response
  Janet Hughes
• Achieving Data Coherence for Complex Enterprises
  Lucie Vinette

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Session 14

• The Internet: A New Collection Method for the Census
  Anne-Marie Côté and Danielle Laroche
• Going Web-only in a Complex Enterprise Survey – Experiences and Lessons Learned
  Johan Erikson
• Accuracy of Travel Data Samples: Utilizing Online vs. Mail Methodologies
  Nandini Nadkarni, Ph.D. and George Harmon
• Can We Make Official Statistics with Self-Selection Web Surveys?
  Jelke Bethlehem

Session 15

• Interaction Between Data Collection and Sample Design: A Plus in a Complex Selection Process?
  Marie-Eve Tremblay and Karine Moisan
• 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
• New Initiatives in Data Collection for the Canadian Community Health Survey
  Marie-Claude Duval

Session 16

• 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
• 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
• An Update on ‘A Time to Interview’
  Ed Swires-Hennessy, Huw Jones and Robert Trubey
• Using Paradata to Manage Nonresponse in the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
  Wisner Jocelyn, Owen Phillips, Beatrice Baribeau and Amélie Lévesque
  

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Session 17

• Data Collection Research using Paradata at Statistics Canada
  François Laflamme
• Identification of Optimal Call Patterns for Intensive Follow-up in Business Surveys using Paradata
  Louise Gates
• Effects of Number of Call Attempts on Nonresponse Rates and Nonresponse Bias – Result from Some Case Studies at Statistics Sweden
  Jan Hörngren, Peter Lundquist and Sara Westling

Session 18

• Keeping in Touch with Project Participants between Surveys: A Mailing Experiment
  Anne Motte and Marie-Christine Brault
• Is There Really Any Benefit in Sending Out Introductory Letters in Random Digit Dialling (RDD) Surveys?
  Jimmy Baulne and Robert Courtemanche
• Methodological Issues in Anthropometry: Self-reported versus Measured Height and Weight
  Margot Shields, Sarah Connor Gorber and Mark S. Tremblay
• Correcting Self-Reported Estimates of Obesity: Can We More Closely Approximate Measured Values?
  Sarah Connor Gorber, Margot Shields, Mark S. Tremblay and Ian McDowell

Session 19

• Measurement and Follow-up of the Response Burden from Enterprises by the Register of Data Providers Concerning Enterprises and Organizations at Statistics Sweden
  Niklas Notstrand and Elisabeth Bolin
• Developing Statistics New Zealand’s Respondent Load Strategy
  Stuart Pitts
• Measuring Respondent Burden in the UK Office for National Statistics
  Denise Williams, Sarah Green and Jacqui Jones

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Session 20

• Reducing the Number of Cognitive Interviews by Adding Other Cognitive Methods of Testing
  Patricia Houle
• How to Develop Business Surveys Continuously in a Cyclic Model
  Helena Bäckström and Pia Hartwig

Session 21

• The National Routing System: Administrative Data Collection in Real-time
  John Menic
• The Challenges of the Use of Administrative Data in the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours
  Anthony Yeung, Anne-Marie Houle and Sharon Wirth
• Use It or Lose It: Mining Municipal Administrative Data
  Joshua Bates, Pat Steenberg, Jacob Ritchie and Sarah Cannon
• Collecting Crime Data in Canada
  Brad Fetter

Session 22

• Incorporating Audio File Information in Survey Data Collection
  Charles Loftis and Shane Trahan
• Coherence Analysis - Improved Quality of National Accounts
  Anna-Greta Erikson
• Enhancements to Data Collection: The Real Time Data Management System (RTMS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
  Dion Pieterson
  

Closing Remarks

• Closing Remarks
  Don Royce

Poster Session

• Evaluation of the Coverage of Linked Canadian Community Health Survey and Hospital Inpatient Records
  Michelle Rotermann
• Profiling Physical Activity Patterns among Women in Manitoba: What does “Moderate” Mean?
  Caitlin Forsey and Margaret Haworth-Brockman