CCSR Conference

A Conference at the Cathie Marsh Centre
Manchester, UK 22-23 June 2000

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This conference will bring together census takers and census users from around the world. There will be a maximum of 70 participants to ensure plenty of opportunity for discussion and debate. Sessions will combine methodological innovations with substantive issues.

The conference is being organised by The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Manchester which also hosts the Census Microdata Unit – an-ESRC-funded unit which disseminates and supports use of Samples of Anonymised Records from the 1991 Census. (See the 1991 SARs)

The programme will run from 10am on Thursday June 22 until 5pm on Friday June 23. Speakers come from the Office for National Statistics, GRO (Scotland), the US Bureau of the Census, the Federal Statistics Office, Germany, Statistics Netherlands and from universities in the UK and overseas.

The census of population provides a key sources of data across a wide range of topics. It plays a unique role in providing estimates for small areas, providing the basis for projections and, through its consistency over time, in assessing change in the characteristics of areas and population groups. Methodological advances now allow considerable enhancement of outputs from the census. One example is the integration of estimates of under-enumeration through imputation to ensure that all census outputs sum to the national estimate of the population on Census Day. Innovations in defining purpose-specific output areas provide much greater flexibility for users, and the increasing range of outputs together with use of the world wide web to deliver them, promise to make the 2000 round of censuses more widely available than ever before. In addition, the use of other data sources – whether from surveys or administrative records – to enhance census data or, in some countries, to replace it, opens up exciting prospects of ‘joined up statistics’. Issues of data quality and confidentiality run through all these topics and provide an important counterbalance to the advances offered by methodological and technical innovation.

The conference is organised in two parallel streams with the following themes:

One Number Census and implications for analysis	Measuring ethnicity and ethnic differences
Methodological advances with census microdata	Migration analysis
Inter-census small area estimates and their use in the community	International comparisons using census microdata
The scope for conducting a census based on administrative records	Measuring deprivation in the census
Defining purpose-specific census geography	Imputing income for small areas
Innovations with census outputs

Plenary introduction by John Pullinger, Director of Social Statistics, Office for National Statistics

Speakers include:

Professor Ian Diamond, Southampton University	Dr Patrick Heady, Office for National Statistics
Bill Schooling, US Bureau of the Census	Dr Ed Fieldhouse, CCSR, Manchester
Dr David Martin, University of Southampton	Dr Mark Tranmer, CCSR, Manchester
Professor Paul Boyle, University of St Andrews	Professor Bob McCaa, University of Minnesota
Erik Thomasson, Bradford City Council	Ruth Ann Killion, US Bureau of the Census
Dr Paul Williamson, University of Liverpool	Paul van der Laan, Statistics Netherlands
Dr Roma Chappell, Office for National Statistics	Dieter Bierau, German Statistical Office
Keith Cole, Manchester Computing	Chris Denham, Office for National Statistics
Professor John Stillwell, University of Leeds	Dr Dick Wiggins, City University
Professor Phil Rees, University of Leeds	Ian Turton, University of Leeds
Dr Mark Brown, CCSR, Manchester	Dr Seeromanie Harding, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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