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JRSS/ESRC announce a one-day conference on
Statistical methods for attrition and non-response in social surveys
| Venue: | RSS, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX |
| Date: | Friday 28 May 2004, 9:30am - 5:00pm |
| Organising Committee: | Professor Peter Dolton, University of Newcastle and LSE Professor Angela Dale, University of Manchester Professor Peter Lynn,
University of Essex |
The Topic
Papers will be presented in both plenary and parallel sessions on aspects of non-response and attrition in social surveys, including the following topics:
- statistical techniques to alleviate the problems of bias caused by attrition in panel surveys (weighting techniques, imputation, refreshment sampling, matching, structural attrition modelling etc.);
- the consequences and bias which result from different modelling approaches to attrition problems;
- practical problems of how non-response and attrition are dealt with in the main social surveys used in the UK and other countries and suggested approaches to reduce non-response and bias in major social surveys.
Aims and Audience
The aims of this one day conference are:
- to update the statistics profession on the latest research in this important field;
- to provide a forum for young social science quantitative researchers to understand the problems of attrition and non-response;
- to result in the publication (after the normal review process) in JRSS(A) of a collection of papers on the topic of attrition and non-response and possibly an edited book;
- to provide survey practitioners, survey commissioners, survey customers and others with an insight into the latest research in this field;
- to provide survey analysts with a guide to best practice in their research.
Deadlines
- Some papers from the conference may be published in a forthcoming
book. The deadline for papers to be considered for the JRSS(A) conference
issue or the book is Friday 25 June 2004. The editors are prepared
to consider papers for the book which have not been presented at this
conference.
- There is no charge for attendance but spaces are limited.
Administrative enquiries should be directed to Ruth Durrell at r.durrell@man.ac.uk. Enquiries about the scientific programme should be directed to Peter Dolton at peter.Dolton@ncl.ac.uk.
This
meeting is organised jointly by the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
and the ESRC Research Methods Programme
