Plenary Session I

Introduction and Welcoming Remarks Katherine Wallman

Cathryn Dippo

The Interplay between Research Innovation

and Federal Statistical Practice

 Stephen Fienberg 

Session II-A Model-based Survey Estimation; Bayesian Statistical Methods and 

Software

Chair: Alan Dorfman

Small Area Estimates from the American CommunityNanak Chand, Donald Malec

Survey Using a Housing Unit Model

Measuring the Number of People Without Health 

Insurance: A Test of a Synthetic Estimates Approach 

for Small Area Estimates Using SIPP Microdata

Carole Popoff, Dean Judson, Betsy

Fadali

A New Approach to Hierarchical Bayes Modeling 

for Small Area Estimation with Surveys 

Avinash Singh, R.E. Folsom, Jr.,

A. K. Vaish

Approximation Methods for Covariance Matrix 

Estimators Used in Analysis of Diary and Interview

Data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey

John Eltinge, Amang Sukasih

Session II-B Data Mining, Data Warehousing and Metadata 

Chair: David Banks

An NLP Approach for Improving Access to Statistical

Information for the Masses

Elizabeth Liddy, Jennifer Liddy

The Reality of Metadata: Are Common Data Definitions

Possible? 

Renee Miller, Jacob Bournazian,

Dwight French, Marry Ellen Golby,

Perry Lindstrom, Louis Schloss

Studies of Metadata Creation and Usage Carol Hert

Operations Research/Statistics Techniques: 

A Key to Quantitative Data Mining

Jorge Romeu

Session III-A Uses of Advanced Technologies for Data Collection, Processing and 

Dissemination, Part 1

Chair: Stanley Freedman
Computer Audio Recorded Interviewing (CARI): 

Additional Feasibility Efforts of Monitoring Field 

Interview Performance

Deborah Herget, Paul Biemer,

Jeremy Morton, Kelly Sand

Scanning Technology Can Improve Time-Use 

Studies 

Patricia Donahue, Lynn Musser,

Thomas Slomba, Judy Hoovler, Tina 

Kinney, Consuelo Bangs

Strategies to Implement Electronic Collection of 

Multiple Worksite Report Data

Michael Searson 

Formal Discussion Martha Johnson

Session III-B Treatment of Missing Data

Chair: Stephen Cohen

Mass Imputation of Agricultural Economic Data 

Missing by Design - A Simulation Study of Two

Regression Based Techniques

Matt Fetter

Automatic Interaction Detection for Imputation - 

Tests with the WAID Software Package

Pasi Piela, Seppo Laaksonen

Raking Fire Data Michael Greene, Linda Smith, Mark 

Levenson, Signe Hiser, Jean Mah

Formal Discussion Nathaniel Schenker

Session IV-A Uses of Advanced Technologies for Data Collection, Processing and 

Dissemination, Part II

Chair: John Kavaliunas

Laying the Foundation for Electronic Dissemination: Louis Boucher

Statistics Canada=s Output Database, CANSIM II

Security Screening and Knowledge Management

in the Department of Defense

David Lloyd, Nancy Spruill

Usability Testing for the Energy Information 

Administration=s Info-Centric Web Site 

Colleen Blessing, Robert Rutchik,

Howard Bradsher-Fredrick, Herbert 

Miller, Renee Miller

Developing Internet Dissemination in Step with

Client Expectations

Pamela Best
Session IV-B Improving Coverage and Response Rates

Chair: Clyde Tucker

Experiences with Incentives in a Public Attitudes 

Survey Using RDD

Ron Fecso

Are Late/Difficult Cases in Demographic Survey 

Interviews Worth the Effort?: A Review of Several 

Federal Surveys 

Detis Duhart, Nancy Bates, Barbara

Williams, Gregg Diffendal, Pei Lu

Chiu

Evaluation of a Monetary Incentive Payment 

Experiment in the National Longitudinal Survey of 

Youth, 1997 Cohort

Michael Horrigan, Rupa Datta,

James Walker

Incentive Effects Across Gender Groups in a Federal 

Survey on Sexual Behavior and Fertility 

Robert Groves, William Mosher,

Eleanor Singer

Session V-A Confidentiality and Disclosure Issues in Data Release and Data Linkage, 

Part 1

Chair: Sam Hawala

On Disclosure Protection for Nontraditional 

Statistical Outputs

Arnold Reznek, David Merrell

Methods for Data Directed Microaggregation in 

One or More Dimensions

Gordon Sande

Using Synthetic Data Sets to Satisfy Disclosure 

Restrictions

Jerome Reiter

A Disclosure Treatment Strategy of Public Use 

Micro Data Files Based Upon Optimal Sampling 

Design Considerations

A.C. Singh, Moshe Feder, George

Dunteman, Feng Yu

Session V-B Estimation and Variance Estimation

Chair: William Bell

A General Method for Estimating the Variances 

of X11-ARIMA Estimators

Luisa Burck, Michail Sverchkov

Design and Estimation Innovations in the Medical 

Expenditure Panel Survey for the Measurement of

Health Care Quality and Expenditures

Steven Cohen
Cross-Sectional Inference Based on Longitudinal 

Surveys: Some Experiences with Statistics Canada 

Surveys

Harold Mantel, Milorad Kovacevic, 

Owen Phillips, Georgia Roberts

Current Population Survey State-Level Variance 

Estimation 

Richard Griffiths, Khandaker

Mansur

Session VI-A Confidentiality and Disclosure Issues in Data Release and Data Linkage, 

Part 2

Chair: Arthur Kennickell

Balancing Confidentiality and Burden Concerns 

in Censuses and Surveys of Large Businesses

Elizabeth Nichols, Diane Willimack

Businesses= Perceptions of Confidentiality and 

Their Attitudes Towards Data Sharing Among

Federal Statistical Agencies

Diane Willimack

Striking the Balance between Privacy and Production 

in Demographic Surveys: Implementation of the 

Respondent Identification Policy

Patricia Doyle, Nancy Bates, Gerald 

Gates

Formal Discussion Eleanor Singer

Session VI-B Statistical uses of Administrative Records

Chair: Tom Petska

Changes in the Use of Education Administrative 

Records: The Common Core of Data

Lee Hoffman, Beth Young

Using Administrative Data in Lieu of Survey 

Responses for Small Businesses 

Anthony Myers, David Kinyon,

Carol King

The Assessment of Survey of Income and Program 

Participation (SIPP), Benefit Data Using Longitudinal

Administrative Records

Kalman Rupp, Minh Huynh, James 

Sears

Formal Discussion Fritz Scheuren

Session VII-A Internet and Other Forms of Data Collection

Chair: Kent Marquis

AESDirect - Internet Data Collection of U.S. Export Charles Woods
Information

Social Presence in Web Surveys Roger Tourangeau, Mick Couper, 

Darby Steiger

Probability Based Internet Surveys: A Synopsis of 

Early Methods and Survey Research Results

Vicki Huggins, Joe Eyeman

Formal Discussion Tim Gabel

Session VII-B Sample Design and Estimation

Chair: Patrick Cantwell

Sample Size Considerations for Multilevel Surveys Michael Cohen

Two-Sided Confidence Intervals for Small Proportions

Based on Survey Data 

Phillip Kott, Per Gösta Andersson,

Olle Nerman

Formal Discussion Stephen Haslett

Session VIII-A Issues in Geospatial Data Collection

Chair: Lester R. Curtin

Using Digital Geospatial Information to Locate Sample

Units in the Field

Sarah Nusser, Jean Fox

Geospatial Data Collection and Analysis as Crucial 

Processes in an Integrated Census

Olivia Blum, Rinat Calvo

Evaluating the Use of Residential Mailing Addresses 

in a Metropolitan Household Survey 

Vincent Iannacchione, Jennifer

Staab, David Redden

Formal Discussion Shoreh Elhami

Session VIII-B Cognitive Research and Usability Testing in Survey Processes

Chair: Roger Tourangeau

Optimizing Survey Measurement Accuracy by 

Matching Question Design to Respondent 

Memory Organization

Jon Krosnick, Michael Silver

Clarifying Survey Questions When Respondents

Don=t Know They Need Clarification

Frederick Conrad, Michael Schober
Usability Methods for Designing a ComputerAssisted Data Collection Instrument for the CPI

Jean Fox

Building Usability into Electronic Data-Collection 

Forms for Economic Censuses and Surveys 

Elizabeth Murphy, Elizabeth

Nichols, Amy Anderson, M. Diane 

Harley, Kimberly Pressley

Plenary Session IX

Chair: Cynthia Clark

Federal Statistics: The ARight@ Balance between 

Accountability and Autonomy

Kenneth Prewitt

Session X-A Data Quality and Nonsampling Error, Part 1

Chair: Diane Willimack

Investigation of Selective Editing Procedures Using 

Quinquennial Data 

Katherine Thompson, Susan

Hostetter

Why Evaluate Business Data Collections? Martin David

Classifying Open Ended Reports: Coding 

Occupation in the Current Population Survey

Frederick Conrad, Mick Couper

Using Respondent Requests for Help to Develop 

Quality Data Collection Instruments: The 2000

Census of Agriculture Content Test

Jaki McCarthy

Session X-B New Approaches in Sample Design, Estimation and Record Linkage

Chair: Pedro Saavedra

Changes in Sampling Units in Surveys of Businesses Jock Black

Designing Samples to Satisfy Many Variance 

Constraints

Donna Glassbrenner

A Partial Order Approach to Record Linkage Dean Judson

Formal Discussion: Gary Shapiro

Session XI-A Data Quality and Nonsampling Error, Part 2

Chair: Nancy Kirkendall

Delivering and Measuring Data Quality in UK 

National Statistics

Marta Haworth, Jean Martin
Effects of the Level of Interviewer Effort on the 

Characteristics of Completed Responses: An

Experiment Using the 1998 Survey of Small

Business Finances

Marianne Bitler, John Wolken

The Quality Versus Timeliness Tradeoff in BLS 

ES-202 Administrative Statistics

Akbar Sadeghi, Richard Clayton

Formal Discussion Daniel Kasprzyk

Session XI-B Census and Survey Evaluation Methodologies

Chair: Kevin Cecco

Estimating Reliability and Bias from Reinterviews 

with Application to the 1998 Dress Rehearsal Race

Question

Paul Biemer, Henry Woltman

Can We Ignore the Migration of Income Tax Nonfilers

When Benchmarking the American Community

Survey=s County Estimates?

Yves Thibaudeau

The 2002 U.S. Census of Agriculture Data Processing

System

Chadd Crouse, Kara Perritt

Formal Discussion Charles Alexander