2006 FCSM Statistical Policy Seminar 

Keeping Current: What We Know – 

What We Need To Learn 

November 28-29 2006, 

L'Enfant Plaza Hotel 

Tuesday November 28th 

8:45 a.m. Welcome and Introduction 

Katherine K. Wallman, OMB 

9:00 to 9:45 a.m. Keynote Speech 

Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia University and Member, Committee on 

National Statistics 

A Fragile Statistical System: What Can Be Done? 

9:45 a.m. Break 

10:00 to 12 noon (Sessions 1 and 2 run concurrently) 

1. The Challenges and Benefits of Integrated Datasets

Chair: Susan Grad, SSA

Organizers: Jerry Gates and Shelly Martinez, Census 

Speakers: 

Sally Obenski, Census 

How Recent Advances Have Facilitated Comparing, Analyzing and Jointly Using 

Large-Scale Survey and Administrative Data to Answer Big Policy Questions 

Mike Davern, University of Minnesota

Evaluating Linked Data for Policy Research Purposes 

Chris Cox, NCHS; Mike Berning and Shelly Wilkie Martinez, Census

Data Policy and Legal Issues in Creating and Managing Integrated Data Sets 

Discussants: 

Robert Stewart, HHS 

Gerald W. Gates, Census 
2. Longitudinal Survey Designs: Current Best Practices and

Continuing Challenges 

Chair: Phil Rones, BLS 

Organizer: Steven B. Cohen, AHRQ 

Speakers: 

Steven B. Cohen and Jeff Rhoades, AHRQ 

Integrated Survey Designs: A Framework for Deriving Estimates of the Long 

Term Uninsured for Extended Time Intervals 

Steven Cohen, AHRQ; Diane Makuc, NCHS; and Trena Ezzati-Rice, AHRQ 

An Examination of the Stability of National Estimates of Transitions in Health 

Insurance Coverage Over Time 

Alison Aughinbaugh and Charles Pierret, BLS

Capturing Complex Event-History Data Using Dependent Interviewing: Dating, 

Cohabitation, and Marriage in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 

Discussant: 

Daniel Kasprzyk, MPR 

12:00 noon Lunch on Your Own

1:00 to 3:00 p.m. (Sessions 3 and 4 run concurrently) 

3. Providing Researchers Access to Federal Data 

Chair: Susan Offutt, ERS

Organizers: Marilyn Seastrom, NCES and Jennifer Madans, NCHS

Speakers: 

Phil Steel, Census 

Design and Development of the Census Bureau’s Microdata Analysis System: 

Work in Progress on a Constrained Regression Server 

Jack Buckley, NCES 

 Real Time Data Access at NCES 

Vijay Gambhir, NCHS 

Development of a Second Generation Online Access System at NCHS 

Discussant: 

Patricia Becker, Southeast Michigan Census Council 
4. The Future of Telephone Surveys 

Chair: Edward Sondik, NCHS

Organizer: Clyde Tucker, BLS

Panelists: 

3:00 to 3:30 p.m. Break 

3:30 to 5:30 p.m. (Sessions 5 and 6 run concurrently) 

 

 

Mike Battaglia, ABT Associates

Response Rates: How Have They Changed And Where Are They Headed? 

Stephen J. Blumberg and Julian V. Luke, NCHS 

Wireless Substitution in the United States and Canada: Prevalence and Impact 

on Random-Digit-Dialed Health Surveys 

Anna Fleeman, Arbitron 

Merging Cellular And Landline RDD Sample Frames 

Mike Brick, Westat

The Role of Telephones in Multiple Frame, Multi-Mode Surveys 

5. Positioning the Federal Statistical System to Quickly Respond to 

Data Needs in Times of Crisis or Catastrophe 

Chair: Charles Louis Kincannon, Census

Organizer: Susan Schechter, Census

Panelists: 

Christa Jones, Census

Amy Liu, Brookings 

Tom Nardone, BLS

Farris Tuma, NIMH

Stephanie Ventura, NCHS

6. Internet Panels for National Data 

Chair: Lynda Carlson, SRS/NSF

Organizers: Lynda Carlson and Bob Bell, SRS/NSF 

Speakers: 

Colm O’Muircheartaigh, NORC

Recruiting Respondents to an In-Person Survey to Join an Internet Survey Panel: 

Preliminary Observations From an NSF-Sponsored Demonstration Project 

Jon Krosnick, Stanford University

A new comparison of RDD Telephone, Knowledge Networks, and volunteer 

sample Internet survey data: Assessments of data accuracy 

Discussants: 

Clyde Tucker, BLS

Alan Tupek, Arbitron, Inc. 
Wednesday November 29th 

8:30 to 10:30 a.m. (Sessions 7 and 8 run concurrently) 

 

7. Incentives – New Results on the Effects of Incentives 

Chair: Barry Nussbaum, EPA

Organizers: Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB and Edward Spar, COPAFS

Panelists: 

Dave McGrath, BLS

David Cantor, Westat

Kathy Ott, NASS 

John Riccobono, RTI

8. Total Survey Error in Economic Statistics 

Chair: Rosemary Marcus, BEA

Organizer: Dennis Fixler, BEA

Speakers: 

Benjamin Bridgman and Dennis Fixler, BEA

Evaluating Economic Statistics within a Total Survey Error Framework 

Clyde Tucker, BLS

Total Survey Error: Why Should the Federal Government Care? 

Paul Biemer, RTI

Total Survey Error: Future Directions 

Discussant: 

Norman Bradburn, NORC/University of Chicago

10:30 to 11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Sessions 9 and 10 run concurrently) 

9. How to Encourage Innovation 

Chair: Tom Petska, SOI/IRS

Organizers: Wendy Alvey, Census and Tom Petska, SOI/IRS 

Panelists: 

Ron Bosecker, NASS 

Lynda Carlson, SRS/NSF

John Eltinge, BLS

Nancy Gordon, Census
10. Nonresponse Bias Analyses in Federal Surveys 

Chair: Jeffrey Sedgwick, BJS

Organizer: Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB

Panelists: 

Arthur Kennickell, FRB

Marilyn Seastrom, NCES 

Chung-Tung Jordan Lin, FDA

Discussant: 

Graham Kalton, Westat 

1:00 to 2:15 p.m. Luncheon Hosted by COPAFS 

Speaker: Katherine K. Wallman, OMB

2:30 to 4:30 p.m. (Sessions 11 and 12 run concurrently) 

11. Modeling Survey Costs: Towards a Research Agenda 

Chair: Guy Caruso, EIA

Organizers: Larry Cox, NCHS; and John Eltinge, BLS

Speakers: 

Alan Karr, NISS

Summary of Workshop Report and White Paper

Doug Williams, NCHS

Increasing Demands and Rising Costs in Survey Research 

John Eltinge, BLS

Local and Global Optimization of Survey Cost Structures 

Bob Groves, University of Michigan

Practical Tracking of Survey Cost Proxies in Real-Time 

12. Establishing Archival Data Systems for Agency Historical 

Information 

Chair: Ronald Bosecker, NASS

Organizers: Edward Spar, COPAFS and Barry Graubard, NCI

Speakers: 

Margaret Adams and David McMillen, NARA 

When to Hold Them, Know When to Fold Them 

Christopher Maxwell, ICPSR 

Managing the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at ICPSR: Strengths, 

Challenges, and Limitations 

Discussants: 

Ralph Rector, Heritage Foundation 

Rolph Schmitt, FHWA