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Activity Number:
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81
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Type:
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Roundtables
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 3, 2009 : 7:00 AM to 8:15 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Government Statistics
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| Abstract - #303429 |
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Title:
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Managing Surveys in a Disrupted Environment
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Author(s):
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Carol House*+
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Companies:
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National Agricultural Statistics Service
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Address:
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1400 Independence Ave, SW , Washington, DC, 20250-2010,
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Keywords:
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survey management ; disruption
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Abstract:
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The environment in which a survey is conducted can be disrupted through weather, social, economic or security events. This Roundtable will focus on the decision process that a statistical organization must undertake when faced with a disruption to an ongoing survey when they have only a short time frame in which to react. The roundtable continues a discussion started in a 2008 statistical policy seminar. One example will be the 2008 flood in the U.S. Midwest which disrupted ongoing agricultural surveys.
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