Location:
May 7: U.S. Census Bureau, Suitland, MD (Metro: Suitland) Registration (Registration closes on 5/1/15 at noon)
May 8: National Academy of Sciences Main Building, 2101 Constitution Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. Registration
Hotel Accommodations: Please contact the NCRN Coordinating Office at info@ncrn.info for further information
Program
Detailed information on the program, with links to available presentations, are below.
May 7, 2015 (@ Census Bureau)
1:30-2:30 PI-only meeting (by invitation only)
1:00-2:30 Meetings between NCRN and Census collaborators
2:30-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-4:30 Research presentations
● Room 1:
○ Rapid Cycle Evaluation for Field Operations (Benjamin Reist, CAD)
○ The SIPP Adaptive Workload Project (Gina Walejko, CAD)
○ Usability testing of the ACS on Smartphones & Tablets: Why we must optimize for mobile and what happens when we don't. (Erica L Olmsted Hawala, CSM)
○ Enhancing Operational Efficiency: Using paradata to improve the data collection process (Rachael Walsh, CSM)
● Room 2:
○ Simulating tax liabilities in PSID (Luke Shaefer, U Michigan node) [poverty measures]
○ SWELL (Summer Workgroup for Employer List Linking) presentation/discussion (Mark Kutzbach, CES)
● Room 3:
○ CED²AR presentation: DDIbased tools and processes (metadata generation, collaborative editing, other uses) (Lars Vilhuber and Ben Perry, Cornell node)
3:00-4:30 Meetings between NCRN and Census collaborators (self-organized)
4:30-5:30 PI Meeting with Director Thompson and Bureau staff (by invitation only)
May 8, 2015 (@ National Academies)
8:30 Registration for Workshops: http://sgiz.mobi/s3/b2a05e12c2de
9:00-10:20 Concurrent Mini-Workshops on Technical Work of NCRN Nodes - Round 1
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9:00-10:20 Session 1: NCRN and the Training of the Next Generation of Methodologists.
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Rebecca Nugent (CMU), "Building and Training the Next Generation of Survey Methodologists and Researchers"
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Noel Cressie, Scott Holan, and Christopher K. Wikle (Missouri Node): "Training Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Postdocs, and Federal Agencies: Methodology, Data, and Science for Federal Statistics"
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Allan McCutcheon (Nebraska), "Survey Informatics: the Future of Survey Methodology and Survey Statistics Training in the Academy?"
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Discussant: (Stephanie Shipp, Virginia Tech)
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9:00-10:20 Session 2: Uses and Benefits from Government Statistics
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Bruce Spencer (Northwestern), "Research on Data Use, or Measuring the Value of Data Requires Knowing How Data Get Used"
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Ian Schmutte (Cornell node/UGA), "Economics of Privacy"
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Seth Spielman (Colorado), "Geographic cost-benefit analysis of federal statistics: Assessing criteria for “usable” statistical geographies"
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Discussant (Mark Doms, Department of Commerce)
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10:20-10:40 Coffee break
10:40-12:00 Concurrent Mini-Workshops on Technical Work of NCRN Nodes - Round 2
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10:40-12:00 Session 3:Geographic Aspects of Statistics
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Christopher K. Wikle (Missouri Node): Regionalization of Multiscale Spatial Processes using a Criterion for Spatial Aggregation Error
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Scott H. Holan (Missouri Node): Models for Multiscale Spatially-Referenced Count Data
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Nicholas Nagle (Colorado/Tennessee Node): Geographic aspects of direct and indirect estimators for small areas
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Discussant: Thomas Louis (U.S. Census Bureau) [20 min]
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10:40-11:35 Session 4a: Confidentiality
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Jerry Reiter (Duke), A Vision for the future of data access
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Lars Vilhuber (Cornell), Expanding the use of synthetic data
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Discussant: Laura McKenna (U.S. Census Bureau) [15 min]
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11:35-12:30 Session 4b:Statistics and unstructured data
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Michael Cafarella (Michigan), Using Social Media to Measure Labor Market Flows
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Beka Steorts (CMU)/Shrivastava (Cornell), Quantifying populations when we don't know who is being counted: A real-life application
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Discussant: Amy O'Hara (U.S. Census Bureau) [15 min]
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12:15 Boxed lunches
1:45-2:15 Light Refreshments - First Floor East Court
2:15 Welcome to the Seminar — Lawrence Brown, CNSTAT Chair and the University of Pennsylvania
2:20 Developments at the OMB Statistical and Science Policy Office — Katherine Wallman, Chief Statistician of the U.S.
2:35 Featured Topic:
"Can Government-Academic Partnerships Help Secure the Future of the Federal Statistical System?Examples from the NSF-Census Research Network,"
John Abowd, Cornell University [presenter] and Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
Robert Groves, Georgetown University [facilitator and discussant]
Erica Groshen, Bureau of Labor Statitics [discussant] "Comment on: Can Government-Academic Partnerships Help Secure the Future of the Federal Statistical System? Examples from the NSF-Census Research Network"
4:00 Floor Discussion
Reception East Court
For additional information, contact the NCRN Coordinating Office