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Apologies for any cross-posting Dear colleagues, please find attached a CFP for the 1st European User Conference: "European Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) and European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)" in Mannheim next year March 5-6, 2009. The European User Conference for EU-LFS and EU-SILC, which is organized by the German Microdata Lab, GESIS, in cooperation with Eurostat, will provide researchers who use these data with the opportunity to present and discuss their work and share their experience. In addition to fostering the discussion within the research community on both substantive and methodological issues, the conference offers researchers the opportunity to give feedback to the European Statistical System. It is important that the potential and limitations of EU-LFS and EU-SILC are understood by researchers and, at the same time, that the needs of researchers become clear. Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political science, public health and sociology) who use either EU-LFS or EU-SILC micro data are encouraged to participate and to submit an abstract. Substantive topics may include, among others, all aspects of the European labour market, living conditions, and static or dynamic aspects of income poverty and social exclusion. Methodological topics may include e.g. questions of data quality, cross-national and inter-temporal comparability, and statistical modeling. All presentations must be comparative and include data from at least three countries. Deadline for submissions of abstracts is October 31, 2008. Please send your submission to the local organizers of the conference: Christof Wolf ([log in to unmask]) & Heike Wirth ([log in to unmask]). Abstracts should not be longer than 350 words; the abstract should also indicate the dataset(s) used and the countries analyzed. For any further questions please contact the local organizers and visit the conference webpage at http://www.gesis.org/EU-User-Conference/. Thanks Heike Wirth -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Heike Wirth GESIS-ZUMA German Microdata Lab Postfach 12 21 55 D-68072 Mannheim Tel.: +49 621 1246 269 Fax : +49 621 1246 100 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.gesis.org/Dauerbeobachtung/GML/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++