2001 Meeting of the SSC, Burnaby, B.C.

Activities Sponsored by the Survey Methods Section

Workshop on Survey Methods, June 10, 2001

The Analysis of Sample Survey Data

Speaker: John Eltinge, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Texas A&M

Data on important social, economic or epidemiological phenomena frequently are collected through complex sample designs that involve stratification, clustering or unequal selection probabilities. This workshop provides an introduction to methods for analysis of the resulting data. Following a brief overview of randomization based and model based inference, the workshop will focus on three main topics: categorical data analysis; regression and logistic regression; and quantiles. The underlying concepts will receive principal emphasis, and will be illustrated with extensive examples from economic, health and social surveys.

Invited Sessions

Contrasting the US 2000 and Canada 2001 Censuses

Organizer:

  • Pat Farrell (Carleton University)

Speakers:

  • Mike Bankier (Statistics Canada)
  • Peter Dick (Statistics Canada)
  • Robert Fay (U.S. Bureau of the Census)

Small Area Estimation

Organizer:

  • John Eltinge (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Texas A&M)

Speakers:

  • David Smith, G.S. Datta and J.N.K. Rao
  • Narasimha Prasad and Sharon Lohr
  • John Eltinge

Canadian Initiative on Social Statistics

Organizer:

  • Georgia Roberts (Statistics Canada)

Speakers:

  • Doug Norris (Statistics Canada
  • Paul Bernard (Université de Montréal)
  • Mary Thompson (University of Waterloo)

Statistics in Fisheries I, Images (joint with Biostatistics)

Organizer:

  • Rick Routledge (Simon Fraser University)

Speakers:

  • Chris Wood (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
  • Ashley Steel, Blake E. Feist, George R. Pess and Robert Bilby (U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service)
  • Eric Anderson (University of Washington)

Statistics in Fisheries II, Images (joint with Biostatistics)

Organizer:

  • S. Smith (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

Speakers:

  • Zane Z. Zhang (Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Nanaimo)
  • Terry Quinn (University of Alaska, Juneau)
  • Carl Schwarz (Simon Fraser University)

Statistics in Fisheries III, Images (joint with Biostatistics)

Organizer:

  • S. Smith (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)

Speakers:

  • Sherri Dressel (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
  • Brenda Norcross (university of Alaska, Fairbanks)
  • Steven Syrjala (NMFS, Seattle)