GSS Methodology Conference 2005

27 June 2005

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    Presentations and available papers are published below. Further papers to be added soon.

    09:30Registration
    10:00

    Opening session
    Paul Smith, Office for National Statistics

    Welcome address
    Len Cook, National Statistician

    10:10Methodology in the Government Statistical Service (GSS)
    Cynthia Clark, Office for National Statistics
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    10:40Treasury requirements for statistics from repeating and longitudinal surveys
    Chris Kelly, HM Treasury
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    11:10Refreshments and exhibits
    11:30Session A: Design issues in repeating and longitudinal surveys
    Chair: Jacqui Jones, Office for National Statistics
    Discussion: Mark Pont, Office for National Statistics
     
    1. A longitudinal design for the General Household Survey: challenges and opportunities
      Roeland Beerten, Office for National Statistics
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    2. Optimising sample allocation and sample selection for business price indicies
      John Wood, Office for National Statistics
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    3. Surveyor variance in the English house Conditions Survey Charles Lound and Charles Elikwu, Office for National Statistics
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     Session B: Longitudinal analysis 1: the Longitudinal Study
    Chair: David Marshall, Northern Ireland Statistical Research Agency
    Discussion: Peter Goldblatt, Office for National Statistics
     
    1. The ONS Longitudinal Study after the 2001 Census link
      Louisa Blackwell and Bola Akinwale, Office for National Statistics
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    2. Welsh in the Census of population: a longitudinal analysis
      Hywel Jones, Welsh Language Board
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    3. New approaces to survival analysis and the ONS Logitudinal Study
      Andy Sloggett, Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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     Session C: Quality measurement and reporting
    Chair: Marta Haworth, Office for National Statistics
    Discussion: Prabhat Vaze, Office for National Statistics
     
    1. Quality measurement and reporting
      Jane Birch, Office for National Statistics
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    2. Estimating standard errors of movements in Producer Price Indices
      Rob Bucknall, Office for National Statistics
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    3. Reliability of two-quarter longitudinal LFS flows data
      Keith Brook and Catherine Barham, Office for National Statistics
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    13:00 Lunch and exhibits
    14:00 Session D: Longitudinal analysis
    Chair: Alison Whitworth, Office for National Statistics
    Discussion: Karl Ashworth, Office for National Statistics
     
    1. A longitudinal study of prisoners and their resettlement: developing the methodology
      Duncan Stewart and Malcolm Ramsay, Home Office
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    2. Examining pupil progress: applications of the National Pupil Database,
      Jon Andrews, Department for Education and Skills
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    3. In it for the duration: government involvment in longitudinal surveys
      Jill Barelli and Emma-Jane Cooper-Green, Office for National Statistics
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      Session E: Discontinuities
    Chair: Sandra Tudor, HM Revenue and Customs
    Discussion: Geoff Reed, Department of Trade and Industry
     
    1. Managing discontinuities: experiences of the effects of the EU enlargement on the Trade in Goods Statistics
      Speaker Tricia Williams & Andrew Kochen, HM Revenue & Customs
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    2. The Impact of the Census on the Population Estimates Back Series
      Ruth Fulton, Office for National Statistics
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    3. Methodological challenges in implementing a new industrial classification
      Mark Williams and Mark Pont, Office for National Statistics
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      Session F: Disclosure
    Chair: Christine Bycroft, Office for National Statistics
    Discussion: Chris Skinner, University of Southampton
     
    1. Standards and Guidance documentation for the disclosure control of tabular data from ONS
      Philip Lowthian, Neil Higgins and Christine Bycroft, Office for National Statistics
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    2. Esimation of disclosure risk for sample microdata using probabilistic modelling
      Natalie Shlomo, University of Southampton
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    3. The Annual Respondants Database: construction, characteristics and disclosure control problems
      Felix Ritchie, Office for National Statistics
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    15:30 Refreshments and exhibits
    15:50 Closing session
    Chair: Frank Nolan, Office for National Statistics

    Quality profiles for longitudinal surveys
    Peter Lynn, Professor of Survey Methodology, University of Essex
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    17:00 Closing reception and exhibits