Conference Support for the Fourth International Conference on Establishment Surveys (June 11-14, 2012 Montreal, Canada)

该奖项为将于2012年6月在加拿大蒙特利尔举行的第四次机构调查国际会议提供部分支持。 一个国家的官方统计数据直接受到其商业、经济和农业调查数据质量的影响。 然而，这些调查普遍接受和实践的方法太少。 造成这种情况的原因是多种多样的。 最重要的是，机构调查面临着更困难的设计和执行问题，而关于解决这些问题的战略的出版物要少得多。 来自地球仪各地的政府机构、学术界和私营部门的从业人员将聚集在这次会议上，继续分享创新技术和最佳实践以解决共同问题的传统。 与会者将参加贡献和邀请会议，介绍性概述讲座，海报会议和软件演示。 希望第四次国际海洋考察理事会将为解决机构调查的独特性所需的持续、跨学科、跨机构和跨国研究合作提供动力。抽样调查加上定期人口普查是收集有关企业、农场和机构数据的主要方式。 在设计和实施对这些机构的抽样调查和普查时遇到的问题有着显著的共同性。 然而，在这些应用中，研究人员之间的互动太少了。 海考会的系列会议在企业调查方法的世界中发挥着重要作用。 自国际海洋考察理事会第三次会议以来的四年中，调查世界继续发生变化，电子通信的可能性增加，答复率下降，并更努力地协调国际数据。 受邀和参与的会议将讨论与企业调查当前相关的问题，包括以下专题：利用协作改进企业调查;官方企业调查的答复负担和动机;大规模统一调查方案;利用行政数据作为企业收集调查数据的替代方法;利用数据传播和可视化软件使经济指标统计更有用;在机构调查的设计和实施中管理成本、质量和风险之间的平衡;以及管理机构调查的元数据。 会议记录将在会议结束后不久在国际海洋考察理事会第四届会议的网站上公布。

This award provides partial support for the Fourth International Conference on Establishment Surveys (ICES IV), to be held in Montreal, Canada in June 2012. A nation's official statistics are directly affected by the quality of the data derived from its business, economic, and agricultural surveys. Yet there are too few commonly accepted and practiced methodologies for these surveys. The reasons for this situation are diverse. Most importantly, establishment surveys face much more difficult design and execution problems and far less is published on strategies to solve these problems. Practitioners from government agencies, academia, and the private sector around the globe will gather at this conference to continue the tradition of sharing innovative techniques and best practices to address common issues. Attendees will participate in contributed and invited sessions, introductory overview lectures, poster sessions, and software demonstrations. It is hoped that ICES IV will provide a stimulus for the continued, interdisciplinary, cross-agency, and cross-country research cooperation needed to address the unique features of establishment surveys. Sample surveys, augmented with periodic censuses, are the predominant mode for collecting data about businesses, farms, and institutions. There is a remarkable commonality in the types of problems encountered in designing and implementing sample surveys and censuses of such establishments. Yet there is too little interaction between the researchers for these applications. The ICES series of conferences serve an important role in the world of establishment survey methodology. The survey world has continued to change in the four years since ICES III, with increased possibilities for electronic communication, reductions in response rates, and greater attempts to harmonize international data. Invited and contributed sessions will address issues of current relevance for establishment surveys, including topics on: using collaborative work to improve establishment surveys; response burden and motivation in official business surveys; large-scale harmonization of survey programs; using administrative data as an alternative to survey data for establishment collections; making economic indicator statistics more useful with data dissemination and visualization software; managing the balance among cost, quality, and risk in the design and implementation of establishment surveys; and managing metadata for establishment surveys. The conference proceedings will be available on the ICES IV web site shortly after the conference.