Family Resources Survey user meeting
Friday 25 April 2008
Royal
Statistical Society, Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX
This meeting, organised
by the Economic and Social Data Service, will provide a forum
for data users and producers to meet and discuss new developments
and exchange information about the Family Resources Survey (FRS).
Programme
| 9.45 |
Coffee and registration |
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Morning chair: Maxine Willitts, DWP |
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| 10.15 |
Introduction:
FRS Data Collection
Jo Maher, NatCen and Fiona Dawe, ONS |
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| 10.35 |
Validation,
editing and imputation of the Family Resources Survey
John Snow, DWP |
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| 10.55 |
How Reliable are Income Data collected with a Single Question?
Sylke Schnepf and John Micklewright, University of Southampton |
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| 11.25 |
Coffee
and pastries |
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| 11.40 |
A
look forward to the 2006/07 Households Below Average Income
publication: new analyses and improvements
Peter Matejic, DWP |
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| 12.10 |
Data
on Disabled Children in the UK: strengths and limitations
of the FRS
Clare Blackburn, Nick Spencer and Janet Read, Warwick
University |
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| 12.40 |
ONS
Approved Researcher Presentation |
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| 13.00 |
Lunch and display by ONS |
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Afternoon chair: Anthony Rafferty, ESDS Government |
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| 13.45 |
Tax
reform and retirement saving incentives: evidence from the
introduction of stakeholder pensions in the UK
Matthew Wakefield and Carl Emmerson, Institute for Fiscal
Studies |
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| 14.15 |
Severe
child poverty in the UK: Evidence from the FRS
Monica Magadi, City University, London |
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| 14.45 |
Child poverty
and ethnicity
Lucinda Platt, University of Essex |
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| 15.15 |
Tea |
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| 15.30 |
Disability, benefits and care
Richard Berthoud,
University of Essex |
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| 16.00 |
Differences in poverty rates among ethnic groups in Britain:
how much can we account for?
Peter Kenway, Director,
New Policy Institute |
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| 16.30 |
End |
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