CCSR Seminars

Throughout the term, CCSR has a regular seminar series. Seminars are held from 4pm - 5.30pm in the CCSR Seminar Room, 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 1 February
Effects of Exposure Misspecification in Log-linear Models for Rates
Mac McDonald, University of Southampton
Log-linear models are used in demography and epidemiology to model rates classified by explanatory factors. A rate is defined as the ratio of the number of events of interest to the exposure. For example, for mortality rates, the exposure is total person-years at risk. Often an estimate of exposure is used, affecting inferences drawn from a log-linear model for rates. Paper.

Tuesday 8 February
Ethnicity and the local labour market
Ludi Simpson, Kingsley Purdham and Abdelouahid Tajar
What does the 2001 Census say about the position and success of different ethnic groups in the labour market? In particular we identify local deviations from the national story. We seek comment on our methodology and results, as part of a project funded by the Department of Work and Pensions.

Tuesday 15 February
No seminar

Tuesday 22 February
Confidentiality, Privacy and the Grid
Mark Elliot, CCSR
A discussion of: the confidentiality issues raised by the emerging Grid technology; the potential of the Grid to provide new routes for protecting confidentiality as well as new threats; a model for data access; the impact of the Grid and other technological changes on our individual identities.

Tuesday 1 March
Mapping Muslims in Britain
Serena Hussain, University of Bristol
A social and geographical portrayal of the diversity of Muslims in Britain, using the census and the Citizenship Survey of England and Wales.

Tuesday 8 March
Census-taking 2011: local authority view
Sheila Ritchie, Manchester City Council
Local Authorities are expected to take a much larger role in the planning and execution of the 2012 census. Manchester City Council’s proposals are based on its experience of 2001 and will require early action and a more central and responsible role for local intelligence.
Slides.

Tuesday 15 March
The need for timely, complex health intelligence
Iain Buchan, Director of Population Health Unit, University of Manchester
How can the health of local populations be monitored in a timely way? Examples from life expectancy and obesity

- Easter Break -

Tuesday 12 April
'Lebenslagen' and social change: a multidimensional and micro perspective in social reporting
Christian Brand
Based on pioneering analyses of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), cluster analysis is employed to use several waves of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) as an instrument of systematic social reporting.

Tuesday 19 April
Realizing the benefits of statistical research
George Duncan, Carnegie Mellon University
This seminar is being held in the Conference Suite, 10th Floor Harold Hankins Building

Abstract and further information

Tuesday 26 April
What’s the latest research idea at CCSR? A lightning seminar
More than a dozen short and succinct presentations of ongoing work at CCSR. Slides.

Tuesday 3 May
Measuring preference
Bethan Davies
How should we design and analyse a conjoint analysis questionnaire, where people rank short scenarios in order of preference? A discussion of the research methods being used to answer this question and findings to-date, arising from a PhD project funded by Galen Research and the ESRC.

Tuesday 10 May
Two talks on Ethnicity and Population Change using the 2001 Census

The role of migration in the segregation of ethnic minorities –The case of Oldham and Rochdale

Vasilis Gavalas

By using two districts of greater Manchester as a case study it is shown that there is a movement of these populations from the initial settlement areas in town centre to the suburbs. The initial settlement areas continue to grow, but only due to natural increase. Given the declining fertility rates of South-Asian populations, it is expected that population mobility will lead to a dispersal of these populations in the future and to their gradual integration into British society.

Household Formation and Ethnicity: National and Local Dimensions

Abdelouahid Tajar

This paper studies the household structure in England and Wales using The CAMS (The Controlled Access Microdata Sample). This is a 3% sample from the UK 2001 census data. The examined issues are household formation among ethnic groups by age and sex. Two Local Authority Districts (Oldham and Rochdale) and one Unitary Authority (Stoke-on
-Trent) are examined as case studies.

Tuesday 17 May

'Who we are and what we do'

Michael Carlson

Department of Statistics, Stockholm Univeristy

A presentation of the Department of Statistics, Stockholm University and an overview of the departments three main areas of research: Official Statistics including survey sampling, Bayesian statistics with applications, and Optimum design of experiments.

Details, slides and papers from the previous series are still available Autumn 2004, Spring 2004, Autumn 2003.