The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (JRSS)
and the Research Methods Programme of the UK Economic and
Social Research Council (ESRC) Announce a One Day
Conference on:
Statistical methods for attrition and non-response in social surveys.
Venue: RSS at 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX, UK.
Date: 28th May 2004 from 0930-1700.
Organising Committee: Professor Peter Dolton
(University of Newcastle and London School of Economics),
Professor Angela Dale (University of Manchester), Professor
Peter Lynn (University of Essex)
The Call:
This conference welcomes submissions on any aspect of
non-response or attrition in social surveys. This includes
submissions relating to:
* Statistical techniques to alleviate the problems of bias
caused by attrition in panel surveys (weighting techniques,
imputation, refreshment sampling, matching, structural
attrition modelling, etc);
* The consequences and bias which result from different
modelling approaches to attrition problems.
* Practical problems of how non-response and attrition are
dealt with in major social surveys and suggested approaches
to reduce non-response and bias.
Aims and Audience:
The aims of this one day conference are:
1. To update the statistics profession on the latest
research in this important field.
2. To provide a forum for young social science quantitative
researchers to understand the problems of attrition and
non-response.
3. To result in the publication (after the normal review
process) in JRSS(A) of a collection of papers on the topic
of attrition and non-response.
4. To provide survey practitioners, survey commissioners,
survey customers and others with an insight into the latest
research in this field.
5. To provide survey analysts with a guide to best practice
in their research
Deadlines:
* Deadline for the submission of 1 page abstracts (or
complete papers) is the Friday 30th of January, 2004 at
1700. Electronic .pdf files should be sent to
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final programme by Friday 27th of February, 2004. The
deadline for papers to be considered for the JRSS (A)
conference issue is Friday 25th June 2004.
* Those wishing to attend the conference should book a
place through the ESRC Research Methods Programme web-site
at www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/events.
* The ESRC Research Methods Programme has some limited
financial support with travel for PhD students whose costs
cannot be met by their own departments. Applications for
this support should be sent by email to Ruth Durrell,
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Feb.2004.
This meeting is organised jointly by the RSS and the ESRC
Research Methods Programme.
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Peter Lynn ([log in to unmask])
Professor of Survey Methodology
ESRC UK Longitudinal Studies Centre
Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
University of Essex, Colchester, UK CO4 3SQ
tel: +44 (0)1206 874809; fax: +44 (0)1206 873151
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/
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