Chairs and Discussants for ICES-II Contributed Paper Sessions
To presenters of contributed papers:
Listed below are the contributed paper sessions with the number, title, chair, and discussant (if applicable), as well as the e-mail addresses of the chair and discussant. Please send an electronic version of your paper (preferably in Word or WordPerfect) (1) to the organizing committee at ices@ccmail.census.gov, (2) to the chair of your session, and (3) to your discussant (if there is one). If you have already sent your paper to the organizing committee, there is no need to send it again. Send your biographical information directly to the chair of the session.
Note that after the conference, you will send a final version of your paper (electronic only, no paper) for the proceedings to John Kovar at kovar@statcan.ca, not to your session chair or the e-mail address listed above.
Please check the website under Program Information for the appropriate deadlines, addresses, and the style guide for the proceedings. You might also check this and other sections on the website occasionally, as we will post any corrections without general notice.
5. Evolving Frames and Registers
Chair: Christopher L. Moriarity, National Center for Health Statistics
cdm7@cdc.gov
Disc: Carl A. Konschnik, U.S. Bureau of the Census
carl.a.konschnik@ccmail.census.gov
6. Data Analysis and Kind of Business Activity
Chair:Paul B. McMahon, Internal Revenue Service
"Paul_McMahon/SOI"@soi.irs.gov
Disc: None
10. Some Lessons Learned from Conducting a National Health Insurance Survey: a U.S. Establishment Survey
Chair: D.E.B. Potter, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
dpotter@ahcpr.gov
Disc: Brenda Cox, Mathematica Policy Research
BCox@Mathematica-Mpr.com
11. Issues in Government Surveys 1
Chair: Wendy Scholetzky, U.S. National Agricultural Statistics Service
wscholetzky@nass.usda.gov
Disc: None
12. Response in Government Surveys
Chair: Renee Miller, U.S. Energy Information Administration
renee.miller@hq.doe.gov
Disc: Martin H. David, University of Wisconsin (send to both addresses)
david@ssc.wisc.edu
Mdavid@survey.umd.edu
16. Issues and Concepts in Facility Surveys
Chair: (Please check back in a week or two: Will be available shortly.)
Disc: Clyde Tucker, Bureau of Labor Statistics
tucker_c@bls.gov
17. Strategies in Data Collection
Chair: François Gagnon, Statistics Canada
francois.gagnon@statcan.ca
Disc: None
18. Edit and Imputation
Chair: Seppo Laaksonen, Statistics Finland
Seppo.Laaksonen@stat.fi
Disc: Dale Atkinson, U.S. National Agricultural Statistics Service
datkinson@nass.usda.gov
22. The Transition to the North American Industry Classification System
Chair: Wanda Dougherty, U.S. Census Bureau
wanda.k.dougherty@ccmail.census.gov
Disc: Leonard Gaines, State Government of New York
lgaines@empire.state.ny.us
23. Survey Design 1: Trade and Financial Surveys
Chair: Rachel Harter, National Opinion Research Center
harter@norcmail.uchicago.edu
Disc: None
24. Sampling 1
Chair: Teresa M. Neeman, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Teresa.Neeman@abare.gov.au
Disc: None
29. Confidentiality and Data Access Issues
Chair: Virginia de Wolf, Office of Management and Budget
Virginia_A._deWolf@omb.eop.gov
Disc: None
30. Variance Estimation
Chair: Zdenek Patak, Statistics Canada
zdenek.patak@statcan.ca
Disc: Phillip Kott, U.S. National Agricultural Statistics Service
pkott@nass.usda.gov
35. Data Collection Systems
Chair: Shail Butani, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
butani_s@bls.gov
Disc: None
36. Improving Response
Chair: Giovanna Brancato, Italian National Statistical Institute
brancato@istat.it
Disc: Vicki Huggins, Abt Associates
vicki.huggins@abtassoc.com
40. Survey Design 2: Other Government Surveys
Chair: R. Paul Moore, Research Triangle Institute
rpm@rti.org
Disc: None
41. Statistical Methods to Address Nonresponse
Chair: Carl Ramirez, U.S. General Accounting Office
ramirezc.ggd@gao.gov
Disc: None
42. Time Series / Seasonal Adjustment
Chair: Stuart Scott, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Scott_S@bls.gov
Disc: None
46. Sampling 2
Chair: David Kinyon, U.S. Census Bureau
david.l.kinyon@ccmail.census.gov
Disc: None
47. Estimation with Administrative Data
Chair:Albert Hendrik Kroese, Statistics Netherlands
AKSE@CBS.nl
Disc: None
48. Managing and Linking Data
Chair: Ron Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
rjarmin@ces.census.gov
Disc: Sameena Salvucci, Synectics for Management Decisions
SamS@smdi.com
52. Alternate Response Modes
Chair:Iris Shimizu, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics
ims1@cdc.gov
Disc: Michael Cohen, Nation Center for Education Statistics
michael_cohen@ed.gov
53. Editing
Chair:Orietta Luzi, Italian National Statistical Institute
luzi@istat.it
Disc: Carol S. King, U.S. Bureau of the Census
carol.s.king@ccmail.census.gov
54. Issues in Estimation
Chair:Per Gösta Andersson, Linköpings University, Sweden
pgand@mai.liu.se
Disc: None
58. Issues in Government Surveys 2
Chair: Kennon R. Copeland, IMS Health
kcopeland@us.imshealth.com
Disc: None
59. Programs to Classify Enterprises and Increase Survey Cooperation
Chair: Diane K. Willimack, U.S. Bureau of the Census
diane.k.willimack@ccmail.census.gov
Disc: None