Meeting of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Committee on Energy Statistics
with the
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
October 28 and 29, 2004
Washington, D.C.

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Thursday, October 28, 2004

Time	Topic	Word	PDF
8:30 a.m.	Open Meeting, Jay Breidt,
8:35 a.m.	Greetings, Presentations and Remarks, Guy Caruso Presentation Slides
8:55 a.m.	Updates for the Committee since the Spring 2004, Meeting, Nancy Kirkendall Presentation Slides
9:10 a.m.    Begin Break-Out Sessions
	Quantifying the Impact of Changes in Forms What might one do in general? Bob Rutchik, Presentation Slides
	A Customer Evaluation of the Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) How did it work? What were the results? Howard Bradsher-Fredrick, SMG Presentation Slides	yes	yes
10:15 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	Summaries of previous sessions
10:45 a.m.    Begin Break-Out Sessions
	Assessing EIA Frames: An update on EIA-wide Project: Introduction Grace Sutherland, SMG Application of Dual System Estimation Principles, Howard Bradsher-Fredrick, SMG, EIA Presentation Slides Progress on Frames Evaluations Being Conducted by the Census Bureau for EIA, Shawna Waugh, SMG, EIA Presentation Slides Lessons Learned from EIA Project on Frames Evaluation: MECS and the Refinery Surveys, Tom Lorenz EMEU, EIA Presentation Slides
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	The EIA Short-Term Regional Electricity Model: Capabilities and Data Requirements Phillip Tseng, SMG, and David Costello, EMEU, EIA Presentation Slides	yes	yes
11:55 a.m.	Summaries of previous sessions
12:10 p.m.	Invitation for Public Comments, Jay Breidt, Chair, ASA
12:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:15 p.m.    Begin Break-Out Sessions
	Natural Gas Production, Frames, Samples and Estimation Preston McDowney, SMG, and Presentation Slides	yes Appendix A Appendix B	yes Appendix A Appendix B
	John Wood, Reserves and Production Division, Office of Oil and Gas, EIA Presentation Slides	yes	yes
	Methods for Assessing NEMS Solution Data for Interpretive and Diagnostic Purposes George Lady, EIA Contractor	yes	yes
2:25 p.m.	Summaries of previous sessions
2:40 p.m.	Introduction to Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) Program Evaluation Nancy Kirkendall, SMG	yes	yes
2:55 p.m.	Break
3:10 p.m.    Begin Break-Out Sessions
	External Evaluations of Survey Programs, Brenda Cox, Contractor to SMG, EIA Presentation Slides	yes	yes
	External Evaluations of Forecasting and Models Douglas Hale, SMG, EIA Presentation Slides
4:20 p.m.	Summaries of previous sessions
4:35 p.m.	How the ASA Energy Committee Might Help in Program Evaluation under PART? Moderator: Nancy Kirkendall, SMG Presentation Slides
5:05 p.m.	Invitation for Public Comments, Jay Breidt, Chair, ASA
5:10 p.m.	Adjourn the Thursday meeting, Jay Breidt, ASA Chair

Friday, October 29, 2004

Time	Topic	Word	PDF
8:30 a.m.	Open Meeting, Jay Breidt, ASA Chair
8:40 a.m.	Data Analysis on the EIA-826/906 Joe Sedransk, lead, and Nancy Kirkendall, SMG, EIA Presentation Figures	yes	yes
9:20 a.m.    Begin Break-Out Sessions
	Post-Stratification Methodology for the 2002 Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS) Rick Hough, MECS Survey Manager, and Stacey Cole, Census Bureau Presentation Slides	yes yes	yes yes
	Time Series Edits for the Electric Power EIA-906 Tom Broene, SMG, EIA	yes	yes
10:30 a.m.	Summary of Previous sessions
10:45 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.	If you were King, Howard Gruenspecht, EIA, Discussion Leader	yes yes	yes yes
11:45 a.m.	Committee Suggestions for the Spring 2005 Meeting
12:10 p.m.	Invitation for Public Comments
12:15 p.m.	Adjourn the ASA fall meeting with EIA, Jay Breidt, ASA Committee Chair

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