Call for Papers
European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics - Q2012,
Megaron Athens International Conference Centre, Athens, Greece,
30 May - 1 June 2012
This is a call for statisticians to participate in the upcoming European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics - Q2012, in Athens, Greece, on 30 May - 1 June 2012, organized by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) and Eurostat.
The Q2012 Conference will offer participants a unique platform for high-level discussions on various types of quality issues and methodological aspects of statistical production. Q2012 will in particular focus on improving quality by the re-engineering of statistical systems and the innovations in the area of quality.
The Conference will be preceded by five one-day training courses on 29 May 2011.
The Q-Conferences started in 2001 and so far, five Conferences have taken place:
Q2001 Stockholm, Q2004 Mainz, Q2006 Cardiff, Q2008 Rome and Q2010 Helsinki.
Statisticians of all disciplines are encouraged to take a look at the list of topics and submit an abstract for evaluation. The Programme Committee of the Q2012 Conference will select the papers that will be presented at the Conference on the basis of these abstracts.
Papers and Abstracts
The deadline for submitting the abstracts is 15 November 2011. Please send your abstract to the Conference e-mail address [log in to unmask]
Abstracts must be written in English and should not be longer than 200 words in either MS-Word (.doc) or pdf-format. They should include the title, names of all authors, and full postal and e-mail address of the corresponding authors. Authors will be notified by the end of January 2012 regarding the acceptance status of their paper. Instructions regarding the submission of final papers will be provided at the same time. Final papers will have to be submitted by 15 May 2012 at the latest.
Topics
The Conference encompasses relevant topics for improving quality. Areas covered by the Conference are as follows:
I. QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Presentations of developments and good practices on quality management related to the following topics:
- Models for quality management and their implementation, quality certification
- The European Statistics Code of Practice: implementation aspects, quality assurance frameworks, compliance websites, labelling, initiatives in the framework of Commission Communication 211, coordination activities of NSIs
- Measuring quality: quality reporting, measuring accuracy in complex surveys, non response, control surveys, error reporting
- Process quality: process variables, process indicators, process documentation and process metadata, quality tools, monitoring systems
- Quality assessment: self-assessments, internal and external auditing, peer reviews
- Standardisation tools: current best methods, guidelines, standards, recommended practices
- Communicating quality to users: users' quality reports, quality declarations and documentation, new ICT
- Satisfying user needs: collecting user needs, measuring user satisfaction
- Human resources: education in statistics, networks of education facilities, training
II. IMPROVING QUALITY BY THE RE-ENGINEERING OF STATISTICAL SYSTEMS
The re-engineering of statistical systems aims at producing more statistics in a more efficient way and brings a wide range of new challenges in improving quality. The elements below encompass broad areas in which process and output quality could be improved:
- Enterprise architecture
- Process integration and standardisation
- Metadata systems and other infrastructure elements
- The role of administrative data and administrative registers in re-engineering statistical systems
- Quality assessment in integrated production models
- New, experimental and model based statistics and quality standards
- The role of self-regulation and legislative frameworks
III. INNOVATIONS IN THE AREA OF QUALITY
New methodological developments leading to quality improvements, as well as quality assessments of non-traditional data sources used for the statistical production are targeted below:
- Total survey design, responsive design
- Mode and non response effects and their treatment
- Total survey errors and bias correction
- Combining data sources and integrating data
- Quality assessment of new data sources (internet, use of private data)
- Measuring cost efficiency and response burden in statistical surveys
- Small area estimation techniques
Website
The Conference website will officially open on 22 August 2011. Information will be given on the Conference venue, accommodation, short training courses, leisure-time activities and deadlines for submission of papers. The website address is www.Q2012.gr .
Questions
If you have any questions, please contact the Organizing Committee of the Conference by e-mail at [log in to unmask] For the questions concerning the content of your paper/abstract, you will be put in contact with the Programme Committee.
Denise Lievesley
King's College London,
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