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

Programme

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Thursday, June 22nd

Time Stream 1, Dalton Lecture Room Stream 2, Gallery Room
9.30 Coffee and registration Library
10.00 Democracy and social statistics, John Pullinger, Director of Social Statistics, ONS

Dalton Lecture Room

11.00 Coffee Library
11.30 – 1pm Developments in census –taking

Chair: Phil Rees, University of Leeds

The UK One Number Census and implications for analysis

Ian Diamond, Southampton University and Emma Wright, ONS

An Alternative to Traditional Census Taking: plans for France

Michel Isnard, INSEE, France

 

Measuring ethnicity and ethnic differences

Chair: Malcolm Macourt, Univ of Northumbria

Ethnic differences in mortality, Seeromanie Harding, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Mapping ethnic and religious differences, Mark Brown, CCSR 

Measuring ethnicity and ancestry in Canada

Michel Côté, Statistics Canada

Discussant: Danny Dorling, Univ of Leeds

1-2pm Lunch - Pagoda dining room
2-3.30 Methodological advances with census microdata

Chair: David Martin, Univ Southampton

Synthetic estimation of small area microdata, David Voas, University of Liverpool

Small area microdata, Mark Brown, Ed Fieldhouse, Angela Dale, CCSR, Manchester University

Discussant: Phil Rees, Univ of Leeds

Migration analysis – comparative perspectives

Chair: Danny Dorling, University of Leeds

A comparison of net migration and migration effectiveness in Australia and Britain

John Stillwell and Phil Rees, Leeds University

The effect of family migration on women’s employment

Paul Boyle, University of St Andrews,

Tom Cooke, University of Connecticut

Discussant: Bob Barr, University of Manchester

3.30- 4.0 Tea Library
4pm –5.45 Inter-census small area estimates and their use in the community

Chair: Ludi Simpson, CCSR

The US Census Bureau’s Small Area Estimates Program: Current Approaches and Future Prospects

Bill Schooling, US Bureau of the Census

Small area inter-censal estimates for England and Wales - the way forward

Roma Chappell, ONS

Small area statistics on-line 

Erik Thomasson, Bradford City Council

Discussant: Ian Diamond, University of Southampton

Comparisons over time and space

Chair: Mark Brown, CCSR

IPUMS International: A web-based system to integrate the world’s census microdata

Bob McCaa, University of Minnesota

Inequality and Teenage Motherhood Over Time in Britain and France: A Census Approach, 

Michael Rendall, Institute of Education

The changing geography of the UK - what only the census can tell us

Danny Dorling, University of Leeds

Discussant: Kevin Schürer, The Data Archive

6pm Reception, hosted by Edward Arnold to celebrate the publication of Analyzing Census Microdata, by Angela Dale, Ed Fieldhouse and Clare Holdsworth. Ellis Room, adjacent to Pagoda dining room
7pm

8.30 pm

Dinner followed by:

Kevin Schürer, 1801 and all that: turning points in the history of the census Pagoda dining room


 
  Friday June 23rd 

Time Stream 1, Dalton Lecture Room Stream 2, Gallery Room
9.00- 11.00 The scope for conducting a census based on administrative records

Chair: Angela Dale, CCSR

Uses of Administrative Records for the United States Decennial Census

Ruth Ann Killion, Chief of Planning, Research and Evaluation, US Bureau of the Census

The 2001 Population and Housing Census in the Netherlands: integration of registers and surveys

Paul van der Laan, Statistics Netherlands

Testing a register-based census

Dieter Bierau, Head of Population Censuses, Federal Statistics Bureau of Germany

Discussant: Ludi Simpson, CCSR

Measuring deprivation in the census

Chair: David Voas, Univ of Liverpool

Use of area-level classifications in the SARs

Ed Fieldhouse and Mark Tranmer, CCSR, 

A multilevel analysis of long-term limiting illness amongst women in the 1971-1991 ONS LS of England & Wales

Dick Wiggins, City University, Heather Joshi, Institute of Education, Simon Gleave and Mel Bartley, UCL

MOSAIC – from an area classification to a household classification

Marc Farr and Richard Webber, Experian

Discussant: Andrew Pickles, CCSR

11.00 Coffee
11.30 – 1pm Defining purpose-specific geographies

Chair: Keith Cole, Manchester Computing

Census 2001: Making the best of zonal geographies

David Martin, University of Southampton

Nordic approaches to defining purpose-specific geographies

Per Schøning and Coen Hendriks, Statistics Norway 

Discussant: Frank Thomas, GRO(S), Scotland

Imputing income for small areas

Chair: Ed Fieldhouse, CCSR

Small area estimates of income and other things 

Patrick Heady, ONS

The spatial clustering of income

David Voas, University of Liverpool 

Discussant: Keith Dugmore, Demographic Decisions

1-2pm Lunch Pagoda dining room
2-3.30 Innovations with census outputs

Chair: Bob Barr, University of Manchester

CASWeb, Keith Cole, MIMAS, James Harris, Business Geographics, Lou Daly, MIMAS

Innovations in census dissemination, Chris Denham, ONS

A Pilot Flexible Output Statistics System, 

Ian Turton, University of Leeds

Methodological developments in census taking

Chair: Tony Fielding, Univ of Sussex

The Canadian Census: 

One-year and five-year migration data

Asking questions on unpaid work

Michel Côté, Statistics Canada

The Japanese population census of 2000 and a 1995 survey of census enumerators

Keiro Hamasuna, Fukuoka Univ, Japan

Discussant: Tony Champion, University of Newcastle

3.30 - 4.00 Tea Library
4pm –5pm This space will be used flexibly in response to requests from participants.

Dalton Lecture Room

Household Classifications, Needs for the 2001 UK Census, Clare Holdsworth (University of Liverpool), Rachel Leeser (Greater London Authority) and Jo Wathan (CCSR)

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