CALL FOR ICES-III SESSIONS CHAIRS

In order to encourage global participation in the conference, the program committee requests volunteers to serve as session chairs.

A session chair is responsible for running a contributed paper session, introducing presenters, and ensuring that the session stays on schedule by monitoring the timing of each presentation. In addition, the session chair serves as the moderator for the question and answer period of each session, engaging participation and encouraging discussion. The session chair also may assist with coordinating presentation slides and materials, if needed.

Volunteer by sending an email to the program committee at ICES3@census.gov by December 20, 2006. Preference in assignments will be given to volunteers not participating elsewhere on the program

Keynote Speaker

Robert W. Edwards Director, Statistics Department, International Monetary Fund As director of the Statistics Department at the International Monetary Fund, Edwards plays a key role in fostering the highest quality standards for consistency, coverage, and transparency in economic and financial statistics. Working with countries around the world, he promotes the implementation of best practices in statistics in order to enhance the quality of national statistical systems and the data they provide to users. Edwards leads the Statistics Department’s mission to provide outstanding statistical services within the IMF and to serve the needs of the international statistical community at the national and international levels. Prior to joining the IMF in 2004, Edwards was deputy Australian statistician, economic statistics, at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. His focus throughout his career has been on statistical and user services, corporate services, population and social statistics, and economic statistics. ICES-III conferees will learn insights from Edward’s global experience and understanding of the requirements of both producers and users of official statistics.

CLOSING SESSION AND DINNER
Thursday, June 21, 2007, 5:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m.

The Future of Using Administrative Data Sources for Statistical Purpose Moderator: Fritz Scheuren, vice president, statistics at NORC, University of Chicago Panelists: Heli Jeskanen-Sundström, director general, Statistics Finland Stephen Penneck, executive director for surveys and administrative sources, Office for National Statistics Don Royce, director general, Methodology Branch, Statistics Canada
Background: Statistical offices are under budgetary pressure to do more with fewer resources. As technology for handling large volumes of data becomes more efficient, information from administrative sources is increasingly being considered to improve efficiency of survey designs—and even to replace direct data collection. Statistics based on administrative sources are relatively inexpensive, and they impose no additional burden on providers. However, several issues need to be considered and may cause frustration: conceptual differences, timeliness, and nonsampling errors.
Content: Panelists will debate future strategies for ensuring that statistics on businesses and establishments are fit for their purposes, as greater use is being made of data from administrative sources. How should a policy jointly emphasize quality, burden, and cost? How are the users affected, and how do they react? How could administrative sources be used to improve surveys? What are the challenges faced in integrating data from different sources? How can quality be assessed and influenced? Are current methods adequate, or do we need a new theory ?
Bios of Panelists
	Fritz J. Scheuren Vice President, Statistics at NORC, University of Chicago
	Scheuren works on mainly sampling issues in applied settings. In recent years, these applications have largely involved human rights matters, both overseas and in the United States. Among other practitioner honors, he has received the Harry Roberts Statistical Advocate Award (from the American Statistical Association’s Chicago Chapter) and the Shiskin Award for Contributions to Economic Statistics (from the National Association of Business Economists and the Washington Statistical Society).
	Heli Jeskanen-Sundström Director General, Statistics Finland
	Jeskanen-Sundström joined Statistics Finland in 1968 and has since worked in a variety of statistical areas, including national accounts, business statistics, and coordination of official statistics in Finland. She served as director of business statistics from 1992–1996. Prior to her appointment as director general, she served as deputy director general and a permanent adviser of the Board of Statistics Finland from 1996–2001. Currently, she is a member of the National Information Society Council and deputy member of the Senate of the University of Helsinki. Jeskanen-Sundström also has participated actively in international statistical cooperation and acted as speaker or chair at several international meetings and conferences. She was president of the International Association for Official Statistics from 2003–2005, having served as president-elect from 2001–2003 and vice president from 1997–1999. She is a member of the Bureau of the Conference of European Statisticians (UNECE/CES) and a vice chair of the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute of Statistics. She served as vice chair of the UN Statistical Commission in 2006. Jeskanen-Sundström holds a master’s degree in economics from the Helsinki University, Finland.
	Stephen Penneck Executive Director for Surveys and Administrative Sources, Office for National Statistics
	Penneck joined the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 1997 and has worked in his current job since September 2005. He has much experience as a government statistician, primarily in economic statistics. Prior to his current job, he was head of the Statistical Outputs Group at ONS. Penneck currently has responsibility for all aspects of ONS surveys and administrative sources, including the continuous household surveys, business surveys (e.g., Annual Business Inquiry, Prodcom, and the consumer and producer price indices), and financial surveys. He also has responsibility for the Statistical Modernization Program. Penneck also has provided policy advice to former National (UK) Statistician Len Cook, taken responsibility for liaison with ministers and international relations, and taken forward the development of national statistics. He completed a five-month secondment to the Australian Bureau of Statistics in early 2002. Earlier jobs include heading the national accounts division in the ONS, with responsibility for producing regular estimates of major time series—including GDP—and acting as chief adviser on statistics at the DTI. Stephen also has worked on statistical research at the Office of Fair Trading. Penneck studied for his BSc (Soc Sc) in economics and statistics at Southampton University and holds an M SocSc in econometrics from Birmingham University. He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a chartered statistician, a member of the International Statistical Institute, and an author to articles in Economic Trends and Statistical News.
	Don Royce Director General, Methodology Branch, Statistics Canada
	Royce earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics (statistics) from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 1973 and 1974, respectively. Since that time, he has worked as a mathematical statistician in the Methodology Branch of Statistics Canada. He spent the first nine years of his career working on a variety of special surveys, conducted primarily for external clients. This was followed by 11 years of working on the Census of Population, where he led the Research and Testing Project for the 1991 Census and was subsequently responsible for the measurement of data quality for that census. In 1994, he moved to Business Survey Methods Division, where he was involved in a variety of business surveys, including a comprehensive redesign of Statistics Canada’s program of annual business surveys. He became director of that division in 1999, and, in 2004, was named director general of the Methodology Branch. In his current position, he is responsible for all statistical methods used in Statistics Canada’s programs and for the program of small-area and administrative data based on tax returns. He is a member of the American Statistical Association’s Census Bureau Advisory Committee, an elected member of the ISI, and an author to articles published in Survey Methodology and the Journal of Official Statistics.

Invited Sessions

There will be 23 invited sessions spread throughout the conference, each consisting of three papers with a discussant. The sessions have been chosen by the Program Committee through a competition and should provide a range of topics at the cutting edge of methods for establishment surveys. The sessions (with provisional titles) are:

Steps To Provide Quality Industrial Coding for a Business Register
Organizer: Yanick Beaucage, Statistics Canada

• Making Quality Improvements to an Automated Industry Coding Application for U.S. Business Establishments - Michael Kornbau, Jeffrey Pearson; Michelle Vile, U.S. Census Bureau
  
• Implementing Coding Tools for a New Classification - John Perry, Office for National Statistics
  
• The Many Ways of Improving the Industrial Coding for Statistics Canada’s Business Register - Yanick Beaucage, Statistics Canada

Surveys of Environmental Protection: Experiences and Challenges
Organizer: Randy Becker, U.S. Census Bureau

• Environmental Surveys of Establishments: the Canadian Experience - Jeff Fritzsche, Statistics Canada
  
• Experiences in Collecting Data on Environmental Protection Expenditures in Sweden - Annika Mårtensson, Statistics Sweden
  
• Issues and Challenges in Estimating Environmental Expenditures by U.S. Manufacturing: the PACE Survey - Randy A. Becker, U.S. Census Bureau; Ronald Shadbegian, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Efficient Use of Administrative Data in Business Surveys
Organizer: Hélène Bérard, Statistics Canada

• The Use of Administrative Data in French Business Surveys: Present System, Future Developments - Philippe Brion, INSEE
  
• The Increased Use of Fiscal Data in the Statistics Canada Annual Business Survey - Claude Turmelle, Statistics Canada
  
• Using Tax Data for Substitution and Auxiliary Variables in the Australian Economic Activity Survey - Robert Clark, University of Wollongong; Frank Yu, Australian Bureau of Statistics

Commodity Flow Surveys
Organizer: Jock Black, U.S. Census Bureau

• Swedish Commodity Flow Surveys Evaluated – Statistics Sweden’s Experiences and Survey Adjustments Since 2001 - Lars Werke, Statistics Sweden
  
• Collecting Electronic Data from the Carriers: the Key to Success in the Canadian Trucking Commodity Origin and Destination Survey - François Gagnon, Statistics Canada
  
• Designing the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey - Jock Black, U.S. Census Bureau

Editing & Imputation Strategies to Improve Statistics Using Tax Data
Organizer: François Brisebois, Statistics Canada

• Methodology of Allocating Generic Field to Its Details - Jessica Andrews, Nathalie Hamel; François Brisebois, Statistics Canada
  
• Improving the Quality of U.S. Tax Statistics: Recent Innovations in Editing and Imputation Techniques at the Statistics of Income Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service - Barry Johnson, U.S. Internal Revenue Service; David Paris, U.S. Internal Revenue Service; Martha Harris, U.S. Internal Revenue Service
  
• Editing in an Integrated Data System Containing Tax Data and Enterprise Data - J.J. Hoogland, Statistics Netherlands

The New Direction of Business Surveys: the Integrated Approach
Organizer: Marie Brodeur, Statistics Canada

• Unified Enterprise Survey – New Horizons - Daniela Ravindra, Statistics Canada; Marie Brodeur, Statistics Canada
  
• Integration of Annual Economic Collections in the Australian Bureau of Statistics - Eden Brinkley, Australian Bureau of Statistics
  
• A Statistical Architecture for Economic Statistics - Ron McKenzie, Statistics New Zealand

Advances in Disclosure Protection – Releasing More Business and Farm Data to the Public
Organizer: Steve Cohen, Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Lesson Learned from Internet Dissemination of Confidential Farm Survey Results: USDA’s Agriculture Resource Management Survey - Mitchell Morehart, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  
• Protecting the Confidentiality of Tables by Adding Noise to the Underlying Microdata - Paul Massell, U.S. Census Bureau; J. Neil Russell, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  
• Quality-Preserving Controlled Tabular Adjustment: an Alternative to Complementary Cell Suppression for Disclosure Limitation of Tabular Magnitude Data - Lawrence H. Cox, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics/CDC

Outliers and Influential Observations in Establishment Surveys
Organizer: John L. Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US; Howard R. Hogan, U.S. Census Bureau

• Multivariate Outlier Detection and Treatment in Business Surveys - Beat Hulliger, Swiss Federal Statistics Office
  
• Influential Observations and Collinearity in Regression Models - Ted Chang, University of Virginia
  
• Optimization of Drill-Down Methods for Outlier Detection and Treatment in Establishment Surveys - John L. Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Patrick Cantwell, U.S. Census Bureau; Howard R. Hogan, U.S. Census Bureau

Use of Metadata for Establishment Surveys
Organizer: Daniel W. Gillman, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US

• Modeling the Contents and Structure of Official Statistics - Bo Sundgren, Statistics Sweden
  
• Experiences with Developing and Using Metadata-Driven Processing Systems for the Economic Census - Sheila M. Proudfoot and Donna Lee Hambric, U.S. Census Bureau
  
• Metadata Management Framework for Establishment Surveys - Michael Colledge, Statistical Consulting Pty Ltd.

Targeting Intensive Follow-up of Nonrespondents in Establishment Surveys
Organizer: Greg Griffiths, Australian Bureau of Statistics

• A Strategy for Prioritizing Nonresident Follow-up–to Reduce Costs without Reducing Output Quality - Gary Brown, Office for National Statistics; Alaa Al-Hamad, Office for National Statistics; Mike Hidiroglou, Office for National Statistics; Mark Pont, Office for National Statistics
  
• Implementing a Score Function for the Follow-up Process of the Quarterly Survey of Financial Statistics for Enterprises - Pierre Daoust and Wesley Yung, Statistics Canada
  
• Targeting Intensive Follow-up for ABS Business Surveys - Greg Griffiths, Australian Bureau of Statistics; Justin Farrow, Australian Bureau of Statistics

Building and Updating Establishment Registries in Developing Countries
Organizer: Alex Korns, Independent Consultant

• Updating the Sri Lankan Registry of Industry and the Role of It - Alex Korns, Independent Consultant
  
• Register Building and Updating in Developing Countries - William Weeks, UNIDO
  
• To be announced

The Influences of K.R.W. Brewer on Establishment Surveys
Organizer: Phillip S. Kott, U.S. Department of Agriculture/National Agricultural Statistics Service

• Research and Development in the Estimation Programs of the National Agricultural Statistics Service - Phillip S. Kott, U.S. Department of Agriculture/National Agricultural Statistics Service
  
• Using Unequal Probability Sampling in Business Surveys to Limit Anticipated Variances of Regression Estimators - Anders Holmberg, Statistics Sweden
  
• Resampling and High Entropy Variance Approximations - Greg Griffiths, Australian Bureau of Statistics; John Preston, Australian Bureau of Statistics; Tamie Henderson, Australian Bureau of Statistics

Collecting Data Electronically from Businesses: the Dream and the Reality
Organizer: Robert Lussier, Statistics Canada

• The Electronic Reporting Option – Does It Make Sense of Cents? - Bernard Fitzpatrick, U.S. Census Bureau
  
• Everything You Wanted to Know about EDR at Statistics Canada! - Jocelyn Burgess, Statistics Canada
  
• Evaluation and Implementation of EDR in School-Based Research - Lesli Jo Scott, University of Michigan; Sue Ellen Hansen, University of Michigan

Improving Statistics on the Subnational Public Sector
Organizer: David Marker, Westat

• Recommendations for Research and Development Priorities for the Census Bureau State and Local Government Statistics Program - John Czajka, Mathematica Policy Research; David Marker, Westat
  
• Two-Dimensional Methodological Issues In Canadian Municipal Infrastructure Time Series - Aldo Diaz and Marie-Claude Duval, Statistics Canada
  
• Better Information for Regional Government - Marie Cruddas, Office for National Statistics; Marta Haworth, Office for National Statistics

Challenges and Strategies in Implementing Quality Management Programs
Organizer: Pamela D. McGovern, U.S. Census Bureau

• Options for a Quality Management Assessment at Statistics Canada - Claude Julien, Statistics Canada
  
• Quality Improvement in the Office for National Statistics - Cynthia Z.F. Clark, Office for National Statistics; Frank Nolan, Office for National Statistics
  
• Introducing a Quality Management Program in the 2007 Economic Census - Franklin Winters, U.S. Census Bureau; David D. Chapman, U.S. Census Bureau

A Global Path to Standards in Questionnaire Design
Organizers: Rebecca L. Morrison, U.S. Census Bureau; Jacqui Jones, Office for National Statistics

• Development of Questionnaire Design Guidelines - Rebecca L. Morrison, U.S. Census Bureau
  
• Improved Questionnaire Design Yields Better Data: Experiences from the UK’s Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings - Jacqui Jones, Office for National Statistics; Pete Brodie, Office for National Statistics; Sarah Williams, Office for National Statistics; June Carter, Office for National Statistics
  
• Standards for Questionnaire Design - Rob Burnside, Australian Bureau of Statistics; Emma Farrell, Australian Bureau of Statistics

Methods Addressing Agricultural Statistics Issues
Organizer: Claude Poirier, Statistics Canada

• Improving Response in Farm Surveys through the Use of Geo-Referenced Data - Philip Kokic, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics; Kenton Lawson, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  
• Recent Initiatives in UK Agriculture Surveys - Peter Helm, Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, UK; Racheal Walker, Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, Nick J. Olney, Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, Graham Collett, Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
  
• The Redesign of Statistics Canada Agriculture Surveys - Claude Poirier, Statistics Canada; Laurie Reedman, Statistics Canada

Goals and Issues in the Development of the Services Producer Price Index
Organizer: Susana Rubin-Bleuer, Statistics Canada

• Methodology for the U.S. Service Product Price Index - Roslyn Swick, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Deanna Bathgate, Bureau of Labor Statistics
  
• Assessing the Quality of SPPls - Marcus Sova, Office for National Statistics; John Wood; Office for National Statistics; Tim Clode, Office for National Statistics
  
• The Unified Methodology for New Business Services Price Indices - Saad Rais, Statistics Canada; Zdenek Patak, Statistics Canada

Getting Response: the Respondent’s Perspective
Organizer: Ger Snijkers, Statistics Netherlands; Martin Luppes, Statistics Netherlands

• Paper and Web Questionnaires Seen from the Business Respondent’s Perspective - Gustav Haraldsen, Statistics Norway; Jacqui Jones, Office for National Statistics
  
• Understanding the Decision to Participate in a Business Survey - Ger Snijkers, Statistics Netherlands; Martin Luppes, Statistics Netherlands
  
• Web Data Collection for Mandatory Business Surveys–the Respondent’s Perspective - Zoë Dowling, University of Surrey, UK; Kristin Stettler, U.S. Census Bureau

Usage of Linearization Variance Estimators for Survey Estimates
Organizer: Katherine Jenny Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau

• An Overview of the Pros and Cons of Linearization Versus Replication - Richard Valliant, University of Michigan
  
• Linearization Variance Estimators for Model Parameters from Complex Survey Data - A. Demnati, Statistics Canada; J.N.K. Rao, Carleton University
  
• Investigation of Jackknife Linearization Variance Estimators for U.S. Census Bureau Business Survey Estimates - Samson A. Adeshiyan, U.S. Census Bureau; Katherine Jenny Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau

Improving the Measurement of Service Sector Statistics: Challenges and Achievements
Organizer: Mark E. Wallace, U.S. Census Bureau

• The Statistical Measurement of Services: Recent Achievements and Remaining Challenges - William Cave, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  
• Strategic Vision for the Voorburg Group on Services Statistics - Louis Marc Ducharme, Statistics Canada
  
• Implementing a Coordinated Approach to Improving Services Source Data Inputs to Gross Domestic Product Statistics - Mark Wallace, U.S. Census Bureau; John Murphy, U.S. Census Bureau

Generalized Survey Processing Systems – An Update
Organizer: Paula Weir, Energy Information Administration

• An Assessment of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Experience with Developing Generalized Economic Programs Processing Systems - Eddie Salyers, U.S. Census Bureau; Beverly Eng, U.S. Census Bureau; Donna Hambric, U.S. Census Bureau
  
• The Continuing Evolution of Generalized Systems at Statistics Canada for Business Survey Processing - Chris Mohl, Statistics Canada
  
• Generalized Processing Systems in the Australian Bureau of Statistics – Eden Brinkley, Australian Bureau of Statistics

Towards a Better Understanding of the Response Process in Surveys of Businesses and Organizations
Organizer: Diane K. Willimack, U.S. Census Bureau

• The Response Process Model as a Tool for Evaluating Business Surveys - Deirdre Giesen, Statistics Netherlands
  
• Using the Theory of Socially Distributed Cognition To Analyze the Establishment Survey Response Process - Boris Lorenc, Stockholm University
  
• The Role of Respondents as Data Collectors in Establishment Surveys - Diane K. Willmack, U.S. Census Bureau