List members may be interested in the followed events, organised by the UK Data Service. The events are free to attend but booking is required.

 

Census Research User Conference

 

31 October 2014, 9.15am – 4pm

Royal Statistical Society, London

 

This one-day conference, organised by UK Data Service Census Support, will be an opportunity for data producers and research users of the census to gather to discuss data developments, research undertaken and work in progress. The day will be composed of presentations from census agencies on developments in data and from users who have used the data in their research. The presentations will be based on analysis of the 2011 and earlier census products.

 

To view the programme and book a place for this event please go to http://census.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=3867

 

The conference will be followed by an event to launch the Enhancing and Enriching Historic Census Microdata (EEHCM) project:

 

Enhancing and Enriching Historic Census Microdata Event

 

31 October 2014, 4 – 7.30pm

Royal Statistical Society, London

 

This evening session follows the Census Research User Conference at the Royal Statistical Society. It marks the production of additional new microdata products from twentieth century censuses. 

 

We will be celebrating the completion of the first files from a collaboration between the UK Data Archive, University of Manchester, University of Essex and Census Offices to recover digital files containing census records and produce microdata samples from these for 1961, 66, 71 and 81.

 

Programme

 

16:00 – 16:15    Coffee

16:15 – 17:15    Presentations:

                        Introduction

                        Restoring and preserving historic data for research purposes

                        Confidentiality issues in older data

                        The research potential of the Historic Census Microdata files

17:15 – 19:30    Drinks reception

 

More information can be found at http://census.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=3890. To book a place please contact Gillian Meadows with the following details:

 

Full name

Department

Institution

Email address

Status (Student, HE staff, Non-academic)

 

If you would like to attend both events please complete the conference booking form and type EEHCM in the additional information box.

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Labour Force Survey/Annual Population Survey User Conference 2014