CCSR Seminars
Throughout the term, CCSR has a regular seminar series. Seminars are held from 4pm - 5.30pm in the CCSR Training Suite, 2nd floor, Crawford House, accessed through the central entrance on Booth Street East, off Oxford Road.
All are welcome and no booking is necessary. Queries to 0161-275-4721.
A poster showing all the seminars in this series is available as a Word file and PDF.
Tuesday 5 October
Schedules of work and family life in Britain - towards a typology using qualitative data
Colette Fagan, Sociology
We undertook semi-structured interviews in 139 households with parents (in practice mainly mothers) of young children in London and Manchester. We asked parents about their households' schedules of working-time, childcare and 'daily life', their housing and local neighbourhood facilities. I draw on this material to discuss the dimensions that should be considered as a basis for a typology of household schedules in the context of theoretical debates about changes in family life and recent government policy initiatives designed to promote 'work-life balance'.
Tuesday 12 October
South Asian voting patterns
David Cutts and Ed Fieldhouse, CCSR
It has been assumed that ethnic minority electors are less likely to vote in general elections than white electors. By using marked rolls from a random sample of 100 wards at the 2001 General Election, analysed using Nam Pehchan, we report the actual level of turnout amongst South Asian communities.
Tuesday 19 October
Once an ethnic group, always an ethnic group?
Malcolm Macourt, CCSR
How far can we use census data to explore the changing nature of group identity: two examples from Ireland - one Northern and urban, one southern and rural.
Tuesday 2 November
Evaluating the potential for an administrative records census
Dean Judson, US Bureau of the Census
This seminar documents the use of administrative records at the Census Bureau both historically and currently, documents the Statistical Administrative Records System (StARS), and identifies successes and current challenges. StARS has been associated with a census simulated by administrative records, non-response imputation, triple system estimation, linking to survey programs, and population estimation. Dean Judson is visiting ONS and CCSR during October-December. This seminar will launch a separate series of discussions on these topics as applied in the USA and Britain.
Tuesday 9 November
Modelling the Gender Pay Gap in Britain
Wendy Olsen, CCSR
The gender gap in wages for those employed full-time in Britain is 18 per cent, while that between women working part-time and men working full-time was 40 per cent. This huge gap is being researched for the period 1991-2002 (funded by the Equal Opportunities Commission). Regressions, decomposition, and simulation techniques were used.
Tuesday 16 November
Are religious people authoritarians in socio- political attitudes?
Reza Afkhami, CCSR
A sample survey of Iranian students describes the range of socio-political beliefs held by a significant group in modern Iranian society and tests several explanations about why peoples’ socio-political beliefs vary. Structural equation models will be introduced to explain variation in opinion.
Tuesday 23 November
Religion in Europe: One theme, many variations?
David Voas, CCSR
Europe is highly diverse, and yet the disparate nations of the continent seem to be following a common trajectory of religious decline. Is there a common cross-national theme or are the differences more important than any similarities? Answers will be sought in the European Social Survey.
Tuesday 30 November
How stable is your ethnic identity?
Ludi Simpson, CCSR
Misunderstanding the question, response and coding errors, changes in the question, and changes in an individuals' own relationship to official categories, all create instability in ethnic group measured by the Census. The Longitudinal Study measures this instability, quantifies its sources, and advises the best match between 1991 and 2001 categories.
Thursday 2 December
An Experimental Bayesian Approach to Record Linkage Abstract
Dean Judson, CCSR
This talk will provide a brief overview of some record linkage projects we have performed at the U.S. Census Bureau, and then will plunge into an experimental approach based on latent class logistic regression, using Bayesian ideas and software for estimating Bayesian models developed in the U.K. The latent class logistic regression model will be developed, parameters of the model interpreted, and estimates results presented. The results of this experimental test are very encouraging, but more needs to be done; the talk will outline future steps under consideration.
Tuesday 7 December
Models for integrating information
Dean Judson, US Bureau of the Census
Integrating information from administrative, census and survey sources poses many challenges of compatible purpose, definition and analysis. Work in the USA and in Britain points to solutions involving Bayesian hierarchical models with embedded latent variables. Dean will discuss the tentative conclusions from his fellowship in Britain this autumn.
Details, slides and papers from the Spring 2004 series are still available.