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届机构调查国际会议(ICES IV)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，对于这些调查来说，被普遍接受和实践的方法太少了。造成这种情况的原因是多方面的。最重要的是，建制派调查面临更多困难的设计和执行问题，而关于解决这些问题的战略发表的文章要少得多。来自全球政府机构、学术界和私营部门的从业人员将齐聚本次会议，继续分享创新技术和最佳实践以解决共同问题的传统。与会者将参加投稿和邀请的会议、入门概述讲座、海报会议和软件演示。人们希望，第四届国际科学和经济研究会议将推动继续开展跨学科、跨机构和跨国家的研究合作，以解决机构调查的独特特点。抽样调查加上定期人口普查，是收集企业、农场和机构数据的主要方式。在设计和实施这类机构的抽样调查和普查时遇到的各种问题有一个显著的共同点。然而，对于这些应用来说，研究人员之间的互动太少了。ICES系列会议在机构调查方法论领域发挥着重要作用。自ICES III以来的四年中，调查界继续发生变化，电子通信的可能性增加，答复率降低，协调国际数据的努力也更多。受邀参加的会议将讨论与机构调查当前相关的问题，包括以下专题：利用协作工作改进机构调查；官方业务调查中的答复负担和动机；大规模统一调查方案；将行政数据用作机构收集的调查数据的替代办法；使经济指标统计通过数据传播和可视化软件更加有用；在设计和实施机构调查时管理成本、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.