Professor Peter Dolton, University of Newcastle and LSE

Professor Angela Dale, University of Manchester

Professor Peter Lynn, University of Essex

RSS Lecture Theatre (RSS)

RSS Council Chamber (CC)

RSS New Meeting Room (NM)

RSS Old Meeting Room (OM)

RSS Basement (B)

Attrition Methods I (RSS)
Each of the three papers will have 30 minutes, to include discussion.

Reducing Attrition Bias using Targeted Refreshment Sampling and Matching

Peter Dolton, University of Newcastle and CEP, LSE

The long-term effectiveness of procedures for minimising attrition on longitudinal surveys

Jon Burton, Heather Laurie and Peter Lynn, UK Longitudinal Studies Centre, ISER, University of Essex

Using Data Augmentation to Correct for Nonignorable Nonresponse when Surrogate Data are Available: An Application to the Distribution of Hourly Pay

Gabriele Beissel-Durrant and Chris Skinner, Statistical Social Sciences Research Centre, University of Southampton

Two parallel sessions with three papers in each.

Attrition Methods II (RSS)

A comparison of multiple imputation and efficient weighted estimating equations for coping with missing data in a longitudinal study of educational achievement

James R. Carpenter and M. G. Kenward, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

H. G. Goldstein, Institute of Education

G. Molenberghs, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Modelling Attrition in the National Child Development Study

Denise Hawkes and Ian Plewis, Bedford Group for Lifecourse and Statistical Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

Evaluating a sequential tree based procedure for multivariate imputation of complex missing data structures

Riccardo Borgoni and Ann Berrington, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton

Labour Market Applications I (CC)

Survey non-response and unemployment duration

Peter Dolton, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Maarten Lindeboom and Gerard J. Van den Berg, Free University Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute

Using matched substitutes to adjust for nonignorable response: an empirical investigation using labour market data

Richard Dorsett, Policy Studies Institute

Modelling low pay transitions: the role of employment dynamics and panel attrition

Lorenzo Cappellari, Università del Piemonte Orientale

Stephen P. Jenkins, University of Essex

Two parallel sessions with two papers in each.

Applications in Health I (CC)

Adjusting for non-ignorable non-response: Application to Gulf War Study

A. M. Wood and I. R. White, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge

M. Hotopf, GKT School of Medicine & Institute of Psychiatry, London

Emigration Bias in Identifying Reproducers in an Intergenerational Study: an example of simple sensitivity analyses

S. M. B. Morton, B. L. De Stavola, D. Nitsch and D. A. Leon, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Labour Market and Related Applications II (RSS)

Do Interviewer Characteristics Influence Respondent's Participation in Panel Surveys?: an analysis on a Belgian study of school-to-work transitions

Tom Schatteman, Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp

Evaluating the impact of missing data in social research

Rob Crouchley and Steve Bradley, Lancaster University

Reza Oskrochi, Oxford Brookes University

Three parallel sessions with two papers in each.

Weighting (B)

Weighting used on the Labour Force Survey longitudinal data sets

Charles Lound, Methodology Group, Office for National Statistics

Using Census-linked survey data to weight the Expenditure and Food Survey

Jeremy Barton and Juwaria Rahman, Methodology Group, Office for National Statistics

Applications in Health II (CC)

Analysis of a long-term trial of neurotic disorder, with insights into the process of non-response

N.T. Longford, SNTL, Leicester
P. Tyrer and U. Nur, Imperial College, London

Health-related attrition in the BHPS: using inverse probability weighted estimators in nonlinear models

Andrew M. Jones and Nigel Rice, University of York

ECHP (RSS)

The effects of income imputation on micro analyses: evidence from the ECHP

Cheti Nicoletti, ISER, University of Essex

Franco Peracchi, University of Rome

Does panel attrition disturb comparative analysis with the European Community Household Panel (ECHP)?

Ulrich Rendtel, Free University Berlin

Andreas Behr, University of Münster

Johanna Sisto, Statistics Finland

Invited Guest Lecture (RSS)

Responsive Design for Household Surveys

Steven G. Heeringa and Robert M. Groves, University of Michigan

The interaction between unit and item nonresponse in view of the cooperation continuum

Oliver Serfling, University of Basel, Switzerland

An alternative approach to correcting response and nonresponse bias in election research

Robert J. J. Voogt, University of Amsterdam

Item nonresponse modelling

Andrej Kveder, Scientific Research Center at the Slovenian Academy