European Conference on Quality in Survey Statistics

24 - 26 April 2006

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  • Agenda

    Monday 24 April 2006

    09:30-17:30

    Training Sessions (Presentations unavailable)

    Tuesday 25 April 2006

    09:00-10:30

    Welcome Session
    Chair: Frank Nolan, Office for National Statistics & Peter Hackl, Statistik Austria

    Welcome Address
    Karen Dunnell, Office for National Statistics, UK & Marie Bohatá, Eurostat
    Presentation Unavailable                           Paper Unavailable

    Keynote Address

    Quality in Official Statistics: Some Recent and Not so Recent Developments
    Lars Lyberg, Statistics Sweden
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    Session 1: Modernisation in Statistical Organisations (Invited Session)
    Chair: Jan Fischer, Czech Statistical Office

    The Office for National Statistics’ Statistical Modernisation Programme (SMP)
    Peter Fullerton, Office for National Statistics, UK
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    Reorganisation of Statistics Sweden
    Anders Ljungberg, Mats Bergdahl, Christina Ekblom, Elisabeth Sennvall, Cecilia Wass, & Nina Palm, Statistics Sweden
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    Customer Oriented Statistics
    Mária Dologová, Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic & Ján Dolog, EOQ Senior Consultant for Quality Management Systems
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    Session 2: Metadata (1)
    Chair: Max Booleman, Statistics Netherlands

    Enhancing Quality of Statistics by Developing and Implementing Robust Standards for Data and Metadata Exchange and Contents
    Enrico Giovannini & Lars Thygesen, OECD
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    Comparison of Two Statistical Metadata Models: SDMX and CoSSI. How Well Do They Guide the User to Proper Interpretation of Statistical Information?
    Jaakko Ranta, Statistics Finland
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    Advances in Survey Lifecycle Documentation: Towards a Survey Information System
    Beth-Ellen Pennell, Karl Dinkelmann, ISR, Ann Arbor & Peter Ph. Mohler, ZUMA, Mannheim
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    Methodologically Oriented Metadata: Framework for Enhanced Quality Information of Statistics
    Heikki Rouhuvirta, Statistics Finland
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    Session 3: Improving Survey Data
    Chair: Carmen Arribas, National Statistical Institute, Spain

    The Bank of Japan’s Basic Principles Toward Further Improvement of Financial and Economic Statistics
    Sayako Konno, Bank of Japan
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    Tool for Managing High Data Quality in Development and Production of Services Producer Price Indices (SPPI) in Sweden
    Vera Norrman, Statistics Sweden
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    Paradata and Bayesian Networks: A Tool for Monitoring and Troubleshooting the Data Production Process
    Marco Ballin & Mauro Scanu, ISTAT and Paola Vicard, University of Rome
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    Data Driven Identification of Sources of Errors for Improving Survey Quality
    Christin Schäfer, Fraunhofer Institute & Hartmut Bömermann, Statistisches Landesamt
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    Associated Paper & Poster 1: 2006 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Survey in Wales - The Importance of the Data Collection Process in AchievingQuality Data
    Angela Clements, Launa Harris & Chris Roberts, Public Health Improvement Division, Welsh Assembly Government
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    Associated Paper: Main Changes in the Labour Force Survey of the Basque Country 2005
    Jesús R Marcos, Basque Statistical Office (EUSTAT)
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    Session 4: Improving Questionnaires and Data Analysis
    Chair: Gustav Haraldsen, Statistics Norway

    Improving Questionnaire Translations and Translation Processes
    Barbara H. Forsyth, Kerry Levin, Martha Stapleton Kudela & Alicia Norberg, Westat, USA
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    Do Questionnaire Recommendations Lead to Measurable Improvements? Some Experiments with Alternative Versions of Complex Survey Questions
    Paul Beatty, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, & Jack Fowler & Carol Cosenza, Center for Survey Research, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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    Large-scale Household Budget Data and Multivariate Cohort Analysis of Consumption Patterns: Potential and Restrictions
    Thomas Grund, Cambridge University, UK & Georgios Papastefanou, ZUMA, Germany
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    An Experimental Hedonic Regression Approach to Estimate Quality Adjusted Price Changes in Italian Consumer Price Survey
    Alessandro Brunetti, Federico Polidoro & Anna Volpe Rinonapoli, ISTAT, Italy
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    Associated Paper & Poster 8: On Potential Use of Matrix Procedure in Business Survey Design and Maintenance
    Maria Huhtaniska, Bank of Finland
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    Associated Paper & Poster 9: A Logistic Regression Model for the Identification of Factors Associated with Poverty in Tharparkar District of Sindh-Pakistan
    Velo Suthar & G R Pasha, Meritorious Prof. & Chairman, Department of Statistics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan
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    Session 5: Data Collection (1)
    Chair: Eva Elvers, Statistics Sweden

    Changing from PAPI to CAPI: A Longitudinal Study of Mode Effects Based on an Experimental Design
    Jörg-Peter Schräpler, Ruhr-University Bochum, Jürgen Schupp & Gert G. Wagner, DIW Berlin, IZA Bonn
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    Estimation of Interviewer Effects by Generalized Interpenetrating Sampling
    Matteo Mazziotta & Fabrizio Solari, ISTAT, Italy
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    Monitoring Fieldwork Performance in Estonian Household Surveys
    Maiki Ilves, Statistical Office of Estonia
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    The Relationship Between Data Quality and Quality Profile of the Process of Territorial Data Collection in Italian Consumer Price Survey
    Federico Polidoro, Rosabel Ricci, & Anna Maria Sgamba, ISTAT, Italy
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    Associated Paper & Poster 3: Qualitative and Quantitative - Combining both Approaches for a Research on Homelessness
    Martine Quaglia, National Institute for Demographic Studies, France
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    Associated Paper & Poster 4: EUSTAT Information Collection Models
    Mariano Gonzalez Izquierdo & Javier Vicente Alfambra, EUSTAT, Spain
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    Session 6: Confidentiality (1)
    Chair: Lawrence Cox, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, USA

    Confidentiality and Disclosure Control: The Restricted Data Access at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
    Zélia Magalhăes Bianchini & Sonia Albieri, IBGE, Brazil
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    Microaggregation: Achieving K-Anonymity with Quasi-Optimal Data Quality
    Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Univeristy of Tarragona, Catalonia
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    Quality Issues of Minimum Distance Controlled Tabular Adjustment
    Jordi Castro & Sarah Giessing, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
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    Considerations in Grouping Multivariate Data
    Myron J. Katzoff, Jay J. Kim & Joe Fred Gonzales Jnr, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, USA
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    Associated Paper: Project to Set Up Service for Secure Remote Access to Files from Data File linkages
    Louise Bourque & Annie Gigučre, Institut de la Statistique du Québec, Canada
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    Session 7: Estimation Variance
    Chair: Beat Hulliger, Swiss Federal Statistical Office

    Variance Estimation for EU-SILC Complex Poverty Indicators using Linearization Techniques
    Guillaume Osier & Jean-Marc Museux, Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), Luxembourg
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    Estimation of Standard Error of Indices in the Sampling Business Surveys
    Rudi Seljak, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia
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    Computation of the Variance of Longitudinal Estimations for the Swiss Survey on Added Value
    Lionel Qualité & Yves Tillé, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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    Estimation of Order Statistics and Income Inequality Measures from Survey Data: Development and Testing of New Estimation Tools for a Large Scale Production Environment
    Claes Andersson & Anders Holmberg, Statistics Sweden
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    Associated Paper: Experimental Indicators of the Impact of the Price Dynamics on Specific Sub-populations: Some Quality Issues and Results
    Alessandra Nuccitelli, ISTAT, Italy
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    Session 8: Quality Management in Official Statistics (1)
    Chair: Gunilla Lundholm, Statistics Sweden

    Quality Audits at the U.S. Census Bureau
    John M. Bushery, Pamela D. McGovern, Paul S. Marck & Howard R. Hogan, U.S. Census Bureau
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    The Experience of Quality Assurance Review in the Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong, China
    Hing-wang Fung, Census & Statistics Department, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
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    Quality Management Assessment at Statistics Canada
    Claude Julien & Alice Born, Statistics Canada
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    Systematic Quality Work in Official Statistics: Theory and Practice
    Hans Viggo Sćbř, Statistics Norway
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    Associated Paper & Poster 5: Continuous People Value Survey at EUSTAT
    Josu Iradi Arrieta & Haritz Olaeta Goiriena, EUSTAT, Spain
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    Associated Paper & Poster 6: The Comparative Study on the Selected Quality Issues - Content, Purpose, Usage and Main Problems. The Case Study of CZSO
    Michal Cigas, Czech Statistical Office
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    Associated Paper & Poster 7: Quality Assessment of the Statistical System in Serbia
    Pedrag Jovanovic, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia
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    Session 9: Data Supplier Relationships
    Chair: Algirades Semeta, Statistics Lithuania

    The Response Process in Recurring Business Surveys
    Mojca Bavdaz, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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    Quantifying the Response Burden of Enterprises in Germany Caused by Official Statistics
    Birgit Korth, Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden, Ingo Pfeiffer, German Institute for Economic Research, Roland Sturm, Federal Statistical Office & Reiner Stäglin, German Institute for Economic Research
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    Issues When Conducting Staff Surveys in the UK’s Ministry of Defence
    Aaron Beck & Ian Gouldbourne, DASA, UK
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    Using a TQM Approach to get High Quality Incoming Data in the Spanish Industrial Surveys
    Ignacio Arbues, Manuel Gonzalez, Margarita Gonzalez, José Quesada & Pedro Revilla, National Statistical Institute, Spain
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    Session 10: Sampling
    Chair: Zoltán Csereháti, Hungarian Central Statistical Office

    A Model for Statistical Inference Based on Mixed-mode Interviewing
    Jelke Bethlehem, Fannie Cobben & Barry Schouten, Statistics Netherlands
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    How to Counteract Problems of Quality in Household Surveys Caused by Intensive Migration Flows
    Jorge Saralegui-Gil, National Statistics Institute, Spain
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    Accuracy of Regional Estimators
    Sylvie Rousseau, INSEE, France
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    The R ‘Sampling’ Package
    Yves Tillé & Alina Matei, University of Neuchâtel
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    Associated Paper: The Methodological Approaches to Definition of the Quality of External Information at Formation of Sample
    Natalia Vashchaeva, National Academy of Science, Ukraine
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    Session 11: Data Collection (Non-response)
    Chair: Andrew Stephens, Data Unit Wales, UK

    The Impact of Contact Times on the Measurement of Employment and Unemployment by use of a Telephone Survey
    Thomas Riede & Dominik Asef, Federal Statistical Office, Germany
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    An Examination of “Non-Contact” as a Component of Non-response in a Business Survey
    Diane K. Willimack & Jeffrey Dalzell, U.S. Census Bureau
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    How Does Extending Data Collection for Children Impact on a Continuous Health Survey’s Quality?
    Nia Jones & Cath Roberts, Welsh Assembly Government
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    Supplementing CAPI with CATI in a Representative Danish Health Survey - Effect on Non-response
    Michael Davidsen & Ola Ekholm, National Institute of Public Health, Denmark
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    Session 12: Edit and Imputation
    Chair: Tim Holt, University of Southampton, UK

    Data Quality: Automated Edit/Imputation and Record Linkage
    William E. Winkler, US Census Bureau
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    Use of Finite Mixture Models in Editing and Imputation of Survey Data
    Marco Di Zio, Ugo Guarnera & Orietta Luzi, ISTAT, Italy
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    Detection of Inconsistencies and Outliers, Multivariate Imputation in the French 2004 Wealth Survey
    Eric Gautier, INSEE, France
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    Retaining Output Quality Whilst Reducing Validation Costs in the ONS
    Gary Brown, Office for National Statistics, UK
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    Associated Paper: The Validation of the Census Micro-data on the Oldest Old Living in Italy
    Alessandra Nuccitelli, ISTAT, Italy
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    Associated Paper: A Proposal to Improve the Quality of Italian National Accounts Estimations by Business Census-like Data
    Augusto Puggioni, ISTAT, Italy
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    Session 13: Combined with Session 4

    Session 14: Small Area Estimation
    Chair: Marta Haworth, Office for National Statistics, UK

    An Empirical Comparison of EBLUP Estimation and Model Based Direct Estimation for Small areas
    Hukum Chandra & Ray Chambers, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, UK
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    General Restriction Estimator in Small Area Estimation
    Kaja Söstra, Statistical Office of Estonia
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    The Use of Small Area Methodology in Micro-enterprise Revenue Estimation
    Tomasz Piasecki, Statistics Office in Lodz
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    Smoothing Data for Small Areas: An Evaluation of Some Simple Techniques
    Martin Ralphs & Anca Carrington, Office for National Statistics, UK
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    Associated Paper: Estimating Real Income at Regional Level Using a CPI Bias Correction
    Rosa Bernardini Papalia, Department of Statistics, University of Bologna, Italy
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    Session 15: Knowledge Economy Indicators (Invited Session)
    Chair: Ralf Münnich, University of Trier, Germany

    Introduction - Knowledge Economy Indicators
    Ralf Münnich, University of Trier, Germany
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    The R&D Indicators in the Knowledge Based Economy (KBE)
    Asterios Chatziparadeisis, Greek Ministry of Development, Athens
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    Quality of Knowledge Economy Indicators
    Ralf Münnich, Nicole Thees, University of Trier and Rolf Wiegert, Univeristy of Tübingen
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    Weighting and Aggregation for Composite Indictors: A Non-compensatory Approach
    Giuseppe Munda, DG JRC, Ispra, & Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona
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    An Introduction to ‘Benefit of the Doubt’ Composite Indicators
    Laurens Cherchye & Willem Moesen, Centre for Economic Studies & Catholic University of Leuven, & Tom Van Puyenbroeck & Nicky Rogge, European University College Brussels & Center for Economic Studies
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    Session 16: Quality Reporting (1)
    Chair: Maria Joăo Zilhăo, National Statistical Institute, Portugal

    Standard Quality Reports and their Application for the National Accounts at the Office for National Statistics
    Graham Jenkinson, Office for National Statistics, UK
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    Assessing Quality Through the Collection and Analysis of Standard Quality Indicators: the ISTAT Experience
    Giovanna Brancato, Riccardo Carbini, Concetta Pellegrini, Marina Signore, & Giorgia Simeoni, ISTAT, Italy
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    Outline of a Quality Report for German Balance of Payments Statistics
    Sabine Guschwa, Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany
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    Introduction of Eurostat Standard Quality Indicators in the Hungarian Central Statistical Office – Dilemma
    Erika Földesi, Hungarian Central Statistical Office
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    Associated Paper & Poster 10: Process Approach of the Eurostat Standard Quality Indicators
    Kornélia Mag, Statistical Research & Training Department, Hungarian Central Statistical Office
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    Session 17: Combining Administrative and Survey Data
    Chair: Maria Joăo Santos, Eurostat

    Developing and Implementing a New SBS at Statistics Sweden
    Stefan Berg & Marcus Johansson, Statistics Sweden
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    Exploring the Statistical Utilisation of Balance Sheets Digital Database to Estimate Regional Economic Variables
    P. Calia & C. Filippucci, University of Bologna, Italy
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    Redesigning French Structural Business Statistics using Administrative Data: Principles and First Results of Methodological Studies
    Philippe Brion, INSEE, France
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    Using Administrative Data for a Business Survey – The Case of the German Labour Cost Survey
    Roland Guenther, Federal Statistical Office, Germany
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    Associated Paper: Frame Error Impact on Structural Business Statistics Surveys
    Salvatore Filiberti & Caterina Viviano, ISTAT, Italy
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    Associated Paper: Improving the Quality of Unit Values Indexes as Estimates of Export Prices - An Experiment on Italian Data
    Paola Anitori, Directorate of Prices & External Trade, ISTAT, Italy
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    Session 18: International Surveys
    Chair: Hans Viggo Sćbř, Statistics Norway

    Improving Data Quality in International Survey Research – A Case Study using the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study
    Chris Roberts, Welsh Assembly Government, Oddrun Samdal, University of Bergen & Candace Currie, University of Edinburgh, UK
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    Harmonization by Design
    Beth-Ellen Pennell, University of Michigan, USA
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    How to Measure Education in Cross-national Comparison: A Matrix of Education as a New Instrument
    Juergen H.P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, ZUMA, Germany & Uwe Warner, CEPS/INSTEAD, Differdange, Luxembourg
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    Scientific Analyses using the Continuing Vocational Training Survey 2000 (CVTS 2) – A Scientific-Use-File of the German Data
    Rainer Lenz, Federal Statistical Office, Germany & Hans-Peter Hafner, Statistical Office of Hessen
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    Session 19: Non-response
    Chair: Bob Groves, University of Michigan, USA

    Analysis of Household Survey Non-response using A Multilevel Modelling Approach
    Gabriele B. Durrant, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, UK
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    Family Matters: Individual and Household Factors in Survey Participation
    Ineke Stoop, Social & Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands
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    Data Quality Assessment of Low Response Rate Situations
    Anja Nimmergut, Federal Statistical Office, Germany
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    Session 20: Sampling (Rotation)
    Chair: Philippe Eichenberger, Swiss Federal Statistical Office

    Evaluation of Coordination Methods for Simple and Stratified Samples
    Johan Pea & Yves Tillé, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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    Application of Cut-off Sampling in Enterprise Surveys for Financial Statistics – The Case of Foreign Direct Investments
    Jorma Hilpinen, Bank of Finland
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    Sample Rotation Patterns for the European Union Labour Force Sample Survey
    Marinela Kustura, Central Bureau of Statistics of Croatia & Katja Rutar, Statistical Office Slovenia
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    The Samples of the Household Surveys Based on the New French Census
    Nathalie Caron & Marc Christine, INSEE, France
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    Associated Paper: Proportionate vs Disproportionate Sampling in Labour Force Survey (LFS)
    Muthetho Solomon Nkwinika, Social Statistics, Statistics South Africa
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    Session 21: Data Collection Tools
    Chair: Cheryl Landman, U.S. Census Bureau

    Q-Bank: Development of a Tested-Question Database
    Kristen Miller, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, USA
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    The Use of Pre-existing Survey Questions: Implications for Data Quality
    Laura Hyman, Julie Lamb & Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey, UK
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    The Impact of a CATI Survey Design on the Editing and Imputation Phase
    Stefania Macchia, Manuela Murgia & F.M. Rottino, ISTAT, Italy
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    Towards One Statistical Office – A Single Production System. Now we have Central Dissemination and Central Collection
    Tuulikki Sillajőe, Statistical Office of Estonia
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    Invited Plenary Session (IASS)

    The Role of Survey Statisticians in Managing Data Quality
    Chair: Gordon Brackstone, President, IASS

    Panel: Jelke Bethlehem, Statistics Netherlands, Cynthia Clark, Office for National Statistics, UK, Tim Holt University of Southampton, UK, & Beat Hulliger Swiss Federal Statistical Office

    Cynthia Clark
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    Wednesday 26 April 2006

    Session 1: Quality in Statistical Systems (Invited Session)
    Chair: Michael Colledge, Statistical Consulting Pty Ltd, Australia

    The European Statistics Code of Practice for a high quality European Statistical System
    Martina Hahn & Hĺkan Lindén, European Commission, Luxembourg
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    From Business Models to Statistical Code of Practice
    Daniel Defays, European Commission, Luxembourg
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    Soft Coordination, Broad-based Cooperation and a Strong Infrastructure are the Tools for Improving the System of Official Statistics
    Gunilla Lundholm & Elisabet Andersson, Statistics Sweden
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    The Role of Statistical Standards for Statistics Quality Improvements
    Jan Fischer & Hana Šlégrová, Czech Statistical Office
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    Session 2: Metadata (2)
    Chair: Bo Sundgren, Statistics Sweden

    Optimising Data Accessibility via Reference Metadata Management Principles
    Russell Penlington, OECD Statistics Directorate
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    Developing a System for Description of Microdata at Statistics Sweden
    Klas Blomqvist & K.E. Kristiansson, Statistics Sweden
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    Documenting Variables
    Isabel Morgado & Mónica Isfan, National Statistical Institute, Portugal
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    Improving the Transparency of the Statistical Output of NSI’s
    Max Booleman, Statistics Netherlands
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    Session 3: Data Linking & Data Warehouses
    Chair: Manfred Ehling, Statistics Germany

    Quality in Data Fusion
    Susanne Rässler & Hans Kiesl, Institute for Employment Research of the Federal Employment Agency, Germany
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    The Use of Central Population Register for Filling in the Austrian House and Dwelling Register
    Thomas Burg, Statistics Austria
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    Datawarehousing Population Census Data: Reporting on Data During the Processing and Macrodata Validation Phase
    Angela Chieppa, Antonio Laureti Palma, Donatella Zindato, ISTAT, Italy
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    Easy Does It!
    Sónia Patricia F.C.B. Quaresma Gonçalves, National Statistical Institute, Portugal
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    Associated Paper: Census Data Capture by Optical Reading - Some Quality Evaluations Based on the Linkage Between Census and Post-enumeration Survey Records
    Gianpiero Bianchi, Antonia Manzari, Alessandra Nuccitelli & Alessandra Reale, ISTAT, Italy
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    Session 4: Data Collection (2)
    Chair: Kate Chamberlain, Welsh Assembly Government, UK

    A Socially Distributed Cognition Analysis of Establishment Responding
    Boris Lorenc, Department of Statistics, Stockholm University, Sweden
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    Methodological Advantages of Large Pretest Samples in CATI-Surveys
    Frank Faulbaum, Empirical Social Research and Methodology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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    Recording the Administration of Questionnaires: An Efficient Method to Improve the Quality of Data
    Géraldine Vivier, National Institute for Demographic Studies, France
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    Session 5: Data Collection (3)
    Chair: Metka Zaletel, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

    A Pilot Project for Testing a Mixed Methodology for Data Collection on Vegetables
    Laura Martino & Roberto Moro, ISTAT, Italy
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    Using Qualitative Methods in Feasibility Studies: Investigating the Availability of Data for Business Surveys
    Kim Ursachi & Katherine Mills, Office for National Statistics, UK
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    Conducting Surveys Among Difficult to Reach Populations: From Theory to Practice and Reality
    Martine Quaglia & Géraldine Vivier, National Institute for Demographic Studies, France
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    Session 6: Imputation
    Chair: Mark Pont, Office for National Statistics, UK

    Random Imputation Using Balanced Sampling
    Jean-Claude Deville, ENSAI/CREST Laboratoire of Statistics of Investigation, France
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    Imputation of Numerical Data Under Linear Edit Restrictions
    Ton de Waal, Statistics Netherlands
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    Can a Tree-Based Procedure for Imputation Improve the Quality of a Survey?
    Claudio Quintano, Rosalia Castellano & Andrea Regoli, Department of Statistics & Mathematics for Economic Research, University of Naples, Italy
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    Associated Paper & Poster 11: Multiple Donor Imputation Techniques in the Survey of Internet Providers in Hungary
    Zoltán Csereháti, Hungarian Central Statistical Office
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    Session 7: Estimation - Calibration
    Chair: Jelke Bethlehem, Statistics Netherlands

    Reducing or Eliminating the Effects of Extreme Calibration Weights in Social Surveys
    Pete Brodie & Bryan Cotterell, Office for National Statistics, UK
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    Calibration Estimators in the Presence of Non-response
    Monica Pratesi, University of Pisa, Italy & Emilia Rocco, University of Florence, Italy
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    Modelling Preliminary Data in Repeated Business Survey: The Italian Industrial Turnover
    Alessia Naccarato, Universitŕ di Roma Tre & Fabrizio Solari, ISTAT, Italy
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    Associated Paper & Poster 12: The Concept of Reliability Protection of Population Sample Surveys Results
    Volodymyr Sarioglo, Institute for Demography and Social Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
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    Associated Paper & Poster 13: Shrinkage Estimation to Improve Accuracy using Preliminary Data
    Fabio Bacchini, ISTAT, Italy
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    Associated Paper & Poster 14: Estimation of Numbers of Persons in Population Surveys in the Presence of Non-response - Results from a Simulation Study of Various Methods under Differing Conditions
    Andrea Quatember, Johannes Kepler, University Linz, Austria
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    Associated Paper & Poster 15: Web Surveys - Inference using Propensity Score Weighting in the Survey on Graduates
    Silvia Biffignandi & Enrico Fabrizi, University of Bergamo, & Monica Pratesi & Nicola Salvati, University of Pisa, Italy
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    Session 8: European Leadership in Quality (LEG)
    Chair: Thomas Körner, Federal Statistical Office, Germany

    Implementation of LEG Recommendations on Quality Including National Phare Programme Promotion
    Natalia Kiosseva, National Statistical Institute, Bulgaria
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    Recommended Practices for Questionnaire Development and Testing in the ESS
    Giovanna Brancato, ISTAT, Italy
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    An Experiment on Perceived Response Burden among Businesses
    Dan Hedlin, Helen Wahlström, Helena Bäckström & Johan Erikson, Statistics Sweden
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    Results From the EU Phare 2002 Project on Improving Quality Assessment of Statistics in Ten Beneficiary Countries
    Michael Colledge, Statistical Consulting Pty Ltd, Jörgen Dalén, Statistical Consulting, Jules Georges & Hĺkan Lindén European Commission, Luxembourg
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    Session 9: Quality Management in Official Statistics (2)
    Chair: Walter Radermacher, Federal Statistical Office, Germany

    Sufficient Quality for Swedish Official Statistics
    Mats Bergdahl, Eva Elvers & Ingegerd Jansson, Statistics Sweden & Jens Olofsson, Örebro University
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    Managing Quality during Statistical Processes
    Ron McKenzie, Statistics New Zealand
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    Improving Quality by Process Analysis – Statistics Lithuania’s Experience
    Daiva Jurelevičienë, Statistics Lithuania
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    A Mentoring Approach to Quality
    Jo Edwards, Australian Bureau of Statistics
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    Session 10: User/Producer dialogues
    Chair: Lucie Laliberté, IMF

    Use of Information Within the Eustat Marketing System
    Jose Jabier Zurikarai, Basque Statistics Office, Spain
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    Reality as a Statistical Construction – Helping Users Find Statistics Relevant for Them
    Bo Sundgren, Statistics Sweden
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    Communication and Perception. Which world do Official Statistics live in?
    Sibylle von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Federal Statistical Office, Germany
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    Session 11: Quality and Administrative Data
    Chair: Paul Smith, Office for National Statistics, UK

    Danish Statistics of Education – On the Road to Nirvana
    Kim Dehn & Thomas Michael Nielsen, Statistics Denmark
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    Administrative Sources and Population Statistics
    Dr Briony Eckstein, Office for National Statistics, UK
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    Quality Evaluation Analysis of the Italian Business Register on Enterprise Groups
    Fulvia Cerroni & Enrica Morganti, ISTAT, Italy
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    Session 12: Data Collection (Measurement error)
    Chair: Cynthia Clark, Office for National Statistics, UK

    Response Scale Format and Measurement Quality
    Dagmar Krebs & Bettina Langfeldt, Institute of Sociology, University of Giessen
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    A Comparison of Two Ways of Measuring Level of Education in Norway: Questions in Survey Interviews versus Register Data
    Řyvin Kleven, Statistics Norway & Kristen Ringdal, Norwegian University of Science & Technology
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    Accuracy of Qualifications Data: A Comparison of the Labour Force Survey and the 2001 UK Census
    Siân Bourne, Office for National Statistics, UK, Jill Bodey & Anthony Clarke, Department for Education and Skills, UK
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    A Test for Data Collection Monthly Wages and Salary in Labour Force Survey
    Maria Gabriella Grassia, Federica Pintaldi & Luciana Quattrociocchi, ISTAT, Italy
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    Associated Paper: Testing Measures of Social Inequality within the Context of an International Survey of Young People's Health Behaviour
    Nina Parry-Langdon, Angela Clements, Chris Roberts & Launa Harris, Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Welsh Assembly Government; Carol Desousa, Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics/Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Welsh Assembly Government; & Candice Currie, Child & Adolescent Health Research Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK
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    Associated Paper & Poster 16: Psychological Bias in Job Analysis Responding
    Barbara Lorč, ISTAT, Italy
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    Associated Paper & Poster 17: The Proxy Responses - An Analysis of the Problem in the Italian Labour Force Survey
    Nicolette Ferrante & Rita Ranaldi, ISTAT, Italy
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    Session 13: Data Collection (Web/electronic)
    Chair: Pam Davies, Office for National Statistics, UK

    Taking the Audio out of Audio-CASI?
    Mick P. Couper & Roger Tourangeau, University of Michigan & Joint Program in Survey Methodology
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    The Quality of Production Processes and the Electronic Survey System: The Experiences of ISTAT’s Structural Business Statistics
    Rossana Balestrino & Luciano Fanfoni, ISTAT, Italy
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    It Takes More than a Computer to Respond to Electronic Questionnaires: A Case Study
    Trine Dale, Bente Hole, Anne Sundvoll & Henning Hřie, Statistics Norway
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    Paradata Indications of Problems in Web Surveys
    Gustav Haraldsen & Řyvin Kleven, Statistics Norway
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    Associated Paper: Internet Data Collection and the Quality of Consumer Price Surveys - A Market Specific Approach
    Carlo De Gregorio, Stefania Fatello, Stefano Mosca, Carmina Munzi & Paola Zavagnini, ISTAT Italy
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    Associated Paper & Poster 18: Using Basic Technology to Survey the UK's Ministry of Defence
    Aaron Beck, DASA, UK
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    Associated Paper & Poster 19: Mean of Episode Lengths as a Quality Indicator of Time Use Diaries
    Paavo Väisänen, Statistics Finland
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    Session 14: Estimation - Outliers
    Rudi Seljak, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

    On Two Aspects of Outlier Treatment: Univariate vs. Multivariate Approach and Transformation of Data
    Beat Hulliger, Swiss Federal Statistical Office
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    Panorama of Methods for Detecting Outliers in Structural Business Surveys: Implementation on French and Ukrainian data
    Olga A. Vasechko, Research Institute of Statistics, Ukraine, Michel Grun-Réhomme & Noureddine Benlagha, University of Paris, France
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    Alternative Link Functions in Survey Estimation Under Missingness
    Seppo Laaksonen, Statistics Finland & University of Helsinki
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    How to Improve the Quality of Data for Non-planned Domains in National Accounts Estimations Based on Business Sample Surveys
    Alessando Faramondi, F. Foschi, C. Pascarella & Augusto Puggioni, ISTAT, Italy
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    Invited Lunchtime Session
    Chair: Jacqui Jones, Office for National Statistics, UK

    The Impact of Non-response Rates on Non-response Error: A Meta-Analysis
    Robert M. Groves, University of Michigan & Joint Program in Survey Methodology & Emilia Peytcheva, University of Michigan
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    A Latent Class Call-back Model for Non-response
    Paul P. Biemer, RTI International & University of North Carolina, & Michael W. Link, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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    Session 15: Quality Management
    Chair: Mária Dologová, Statistical Offcie of the Slovak Republic

    Statistical Quality in the European Central Bank: Experience so Far and Way Forward
    Caroline Willeke, Gérard Salou, Catherine Ahsbahs & Violetta Damia, European Central Bank
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    Using Quality Measures to Manage Statistical Risks in Business Surveys
    Paul Schubert, Tenniel Guiver & Frank Yu, Australian Bureau of Statistics
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    Data Quality: A Comparison of IMF’s & European Statistical System’s Quality Approaches
    Lucie Laliberté, IMF, & Daniel Defays, European Commission
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    Independent, Transparent, Externally Audited: The ISO Approach to Survey Process Quality Control
    Bill Blyth, TNS plc, London
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    Session 16: Quality Reporting (2)
    Chair: Garnet Compton, Office for National Statistics, UK

    Dissemination of Complex Survey Sampling Errors
    M. Ayestaran, Elena Goni, M. Mas & Christina Prado, Basque Statistical Office, Spain
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    Quality in the Process of Presenting Data
    Per Andreasson, Henrik Engström & Rikard Persson, Statistics Sweden
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    Comparability of Business Statistics
    Peter Struijs, Statistics Netherlands
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    Spanish Experience on the Application of DESAP Check-list to Evaluate SQl
    Carmen Arribas & Ma Dolores Lorca, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Spain
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    Session 17: Survey Quality
    Chair: Marina Signore, ISTAT, Italy

    Quality Procedures for Survey Transitions – Experiments and Discontinuities
    Paul Smith, Office for National Statistics, UK, Jan van den Brakel, Statistics Netherlands & Simon Compton, Office for National Statistics, UK
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    Data Quality in Nation-wide Social Surveys
    Michael Blohm, ZUMA, Germany
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    Data Documentation Guidelines
    Ole Olsen & Helene Feveile, National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark
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    Associated Paper & Poster 20: Interviewer and Interprets Training for a Biographical Survey in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Martine Quaglia, INED, National Institute for Demographic Studies, France
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    Session 18: Sampling (Business surveys)
    Chair: Kaja Söstra, Statitsical Office of Estonia

    A Proposal for Improving the Accuracy of the Italian Consumer Price Index Estimates Using Probability Sampling Strategy
    Piero Demetrio Falorsi, Nicoletta Cibella, Claudia De Vitiis, Paolo Righi, & Tiziana Tuoto, ISTAT, Italy
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    Measuring and Controlling Accuracy in a Complex Survey: Design of the 2006 French Structure of Earnings Survey
    Romain Aeberhardt, INSEE, France, Malik Koubi, DARES, France, Vincent Marcus, INSEE, France, & Emanuela Scavalli, ISTAT (co-author)
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    Assessment of Frame Quality in Agricultural Surveys in the Republic of Serbia
    N. Cvetkovic, O. Melovski Trpinac & D. Markovic, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia
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    Associated Paper: A Probalistic Approach in Estimating Seasonal Products' Consumer Price Indices - Some Case Studies Referred to the Italian Tourism Sector
    Carlo De Gregorio, Stefania Fatello, Stefano Mosca, Carmina Munzi & Paola Zavagnini, ISTAT, Italy
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    Session 19: Data Collection (Mixed mode)
    Chair: Jacqui Jones, Office for National Statistics, UK

    Web Data Collection in a Mixed Mode Approach: An Experiment
    Björn Janssen, Statistics Netherlands
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    Complementarity Between Different Data Collection Methods: Interviewing both Employees and Employers
    Cécile Lefevre, Ariane Pailhe, Anne Solaz, Ana Maria Noel, Martine Quaglia & Tatiana Vichneskaďa, National Institute for Demographic Studies, France
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    A Comparison of Different Approaches to Measure Alcohol Consumption
    Ola Ekholm, Karina Christensen, Katrine Strandberg Larsen & Morten Grřnbćk, National Institute of Public Health, Denmark
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    Associated Paper & Poster 21: Mixed Mode Interviewing using Short Questionnaires with Basic Questions
    Barry Schouten, Statistics Netherlands
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    Associated Paper & Poster 22: Mixing Web and Paper Based Data Collection Modes in a Survey on Manufacturing Firms
    Silvia Biffignandi & Enrico Fabrizi, DMSIA, University of Bergamo, Italy
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    Associated Paper & Poster 23: Comparisons of Responses to Mailed Questionnaires and Telephone Interviews - Results from a National Survey
    Helen Feveile, Ole Olsen and Annie Hřgh, National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark
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    Session 20: Errors
    Chair: Margaret Cole, Central Statistical Office, Ireland

    Data Collection under Pressure: Towards a Strategy of Mixed Data Sources
    Thomas Körner & Walter Radermacher, Federal Statistical Office, Germany
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    Longitudinal Decomposition of Sampling Frames and Estimators as a Tool for Improving Data Quality
    Paul-André Salamin, Swiss Federal Statistical Office
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    Measurement Bias Adjustment in the Swedish Farm Accidents Survey
    Jörgen Svensson, Statistics Sweden
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    The Quality Declaration in the Use of Administrative Sources for Statistical Purposes
    Giuseppe Garofalo, ISTAT, Italy
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    Associated Paper & Poster 24: To Prevent Non-sampling Error in Professional Survey
    Francesca della Ratta & Alessandro La Rocca, ISTAT, Italy
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    Session 21: Confidentiality (Tabular methods)
    Chair: Pedro Díaz Muńoz, European Commission, Luxembourg

    Confidentiality Practice and Introducing New Standards
    Marta Haworth & Jane Longhurst, Office for National Statistics, UK
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    An Examination of the Effects of Rounding on the Quality and Confidentiality of Tabular Data
    Lawrence, H. Cox & Jay J. Kim, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, USA
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    Experimental R-Packages for Data Disclosure
    Matthias Templ, Statistik Austria
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    Quality Measures for Disclosure Controlled Statistical Data
    Natalie Shlomo, University of Southampton, UK, Hebrew University, Israel & Office for National Statistics, UK & Caroline Young, University of Southampton, Office for National Statistics, UK
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    Closing Plenary Session
    Chair: Daniel Defays, Eurostat

    Why Statistical Legislation and Codes make a Difference to Trust in the Quality of Statistics by Users
    Len Cook, New Zealand
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    Improving Timeliness for Short-term Economic Statistics
    Richard McKenzie, OECD
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    Closing Remarks
    Karen Dunnell, Office for National Statistics, UK & Pedro Díaz Muńoz, European Commission, Luxembourg
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