Conference Information
- Registration
- Letter from Conference Chair
- Keynote Speaker
- Committee Members
- Passport Information
- Local Information and Travel
The ICES series of conferences serves an important role in the world of survey methodology. Few other conferences focus on methods and applications for establishment surveys.
The first three, held at seven-year intervals from 1993 to 2007, were very successful with more than 400 delegates per conference. The conferences covered a broad spectrum of survey methods for businesses, farms, and institutions. The fourth conference will continue this. Examples of potential topics include:
- Efficient Use of Administrative Data in Business Surveys
- Advances in Disclosure Protection
- Usage of Linearization Variance Estimators for Survey Estimates
- The New Direction of Business Surveys
- Collecting Data Electronically from Businesses
- Updating Business Registers
- Sample Design Challenges
- Factors that Affect Establishment Survey Participation
- Generalized Survey Processing Systems - An Update
- Measuring Nonresponse Bias
- Issues of Multi-Mode Data Collection
The Conference will include:
- Short courses
- A keynote speaker
- Poster sessions, software demonstrations, invited and contributed paper sessions
Online solicitation for invited paper session proposals will open December 1, 2010 and close March 1, 2011. Online solicitation for topic contributed session proposals and contributed papers will open June 1, 2011 and close August 31, 2011.
This Conference Sponsored By:
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American Statistical Association
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International Association of Survey Statisticians
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Statistical Society of Canada
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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ASA Section on
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The Organizing Committee would like to thank the following organizations for their generous support of the ICES-IV:
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Business and Economics Section of the ASA
DOE-Energy Information Administration
Mathematica Policy Research
National Agricultural Statistics Service
National Center for Health Care Statistics
National Science Foundation
NORC at the University of Chicago
Office for National Statistics (UK)
Statistics Canada
Statistics Sweden
U.S. Census Bureau
Westat
Key Dates
- February 22, 2012
Last day for all program participants to edit abstracts online. - March 29, 2012
Last day for all program participants to register. - March 29, 2012 (midnight EDT)
Last day for Early Bird Registration to be received at the ASA office. - March 30, 2012
Advance Registration begins (increased fees apply). - March 31, 2012
Draft invited session manuscripts due to session organizers. Draft contributed topic session manuscripts due to session organizers, if the session has a discussant. - May 7-25, 2012
Presentations can be upload onto conference system. Note that presentations can be uploaded onsite up to 24 hours prior to the scheduled presentation time. - May 18, 2012
Last day to make hotel Reservations. - May 23, 2012 (midnight EDT)
Last day for Advance Registration to be received at the ASA office. - June 1, 2012
Downloadable PDF version of the final program available on the ICES-IV web site. - June 10-14, 2012
Onsite registration (increased fees apply). - July 15 - September 15, 2012
Final paper/poster submission for conference proceedings.
