Meeting of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Committee on Energy Statistics
with the
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
April 28 and 29, 2005
Washington, D.C.

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Thursday, April 28, 2005

Time	Topic	Word	PDF
8:30 a.m.	Open Meeting, Nicolas Hengartner,
8:35 a.m.	Greetings and Remarks, Guy Caruso Presentation Slides
8:55 a.m.	Updates for the Committee since the fall 2004, Meeting, Nancy Kirkendall Presentation Slides
9:10 a.m.	Regionalizing the Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) Forecast, Margot Anderson Presentation Slides
9:45 a.m.	STEO Performance Indicators: Diagnostics and Forecast Errors, Margot Anderson Presentation Slides
10:15 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.    Begin Break-Out Sessions
	STEO Electricity Modeling Phillip Tseng, SMG, Lead, Dave Costello, EMEU, and Janice Poling, SMG, EIA Presentation Slides	yes	yes
	Bureau of Census Frames Comparisons Rick Hough and Vicki Haitot, Bureau of Census, under contract to EIA Presentation Slides	yes	yes
11:45 a.m.	ASA Summaries of previous sessions
12:10 a.m.	Invitation for Public Comments, Nicolas Hengartner, ASA Committee Chair
12:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:15 p.m.    Begin Break-Out Sessions
	Regional STEO Propane and Heating Oil Modules, Tancred Lidderdale, EMEU, EIA Presentation Slides	Propane Heating Oil	Propane Heating Oil
	Hands-On Usability Testing of EIA's New Website Design, Colleen Blessing, EIA	yes	yes
2:25 p.m.	ASA Summary of previous session on STEO
2:35 p.m.	Follow-up on Frames Team Activities, Howard Bradsher-Fredrick, EIA Presentation Slides	Narrative Appendices	Narrative Appendices
3:05 p.m.	Break
3:20 p.m.    Begin Break-Out Sessions
	EIA’s Proposed Strategy for Addressing Declining Response Rates in the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) Dwight French, EMEU, EIA Presentation Slides	yes	yes
	Hands-On Usability Testing of EIA's New Website Design, Colleen Blessing, EIA	yes	yes
4:30 p.m.	ASA Summary of RECS session
4:45 p.m.	EIA Summaries of Home Page sessions
4:55 p.m.	Invitation for Public Comments, Nicolas Hengartner, ASA Committee Chair
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn the Thursday meeting, Nicolas Hengartner, ASA Committee Chair

Friday, April 29, 2005

Time	Topic	Word	PDF
8:30 a.m.	Open Meeting, Nick Hengartner, ASA Chair
8:35 a.m.	Assessments: Presentations and a Panel Discussion, Nancy Kirkendall, moderator Presentation Slides External Review of Survey Programs: A Progress Report, Brenda Cox, EIA Contractor and Nancy Kirkendall, EIA Presentation Slides External Review of EIA Program, John Paul Deley, NEIC, EIA Presentation Slides Discussion: Where Next? Howard Gruenspecht, EIA Deputy Administrator and Moderator	Template Evaluation Evaluation 4/27/05 Presentation Review	Template Evaluation Evaluation 4/27/05 Presentation Review
9:40 a.m.    Begin Break-Out Sessions
	Progress on EIA's 914: Response rate and kinds of challenges, John Wood, EIA Presentation Slides	yes	yes
	Estimate EIA's 826 Since the Last Time: Differences, estimation groups, outliers and test results Joe Sedransk, Jim Knaub, Lindolfo Pedraza and Nancy Kirkendall, EIA Presentation Slides	Paper Handouts	Paper Handouts
10:50 a.m.	Break
11:05 a.m.	Summary of Previous sessions
11:20 a.m.	Committee Suggestions for Topics at the Fall 2005 Meeting
11:55 a.m.	Invitation for Public Comments, Nicolas Hengartner, ASA Committee Chair
12:00 p.m.	Adjourn the ASA Spring meeting with EIA, Nicolas Hengartner, ASA Committee Chair

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