2020 ICES VI Reg Guide

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

ESTABLISHMENT STATISTICS

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA • JUNE 15-18, 2020

REGISTRATION GUIDE

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

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The International Conference on Establishment Statistics (ICES)

promotes discussion of a broad range of issues related to the

statistics of businesses, farms, or institutions. ICES features invited

and contributed papers and demonstrations from around the

globe that highlight new, improved, and upcoming establishment

statistics methodologies and technologies using census data,

administrative or other organic data, and sample survey data.

Participants come from academia, government statistical agencies,

private businesses, statistical associations, and other sectors with an

interest in international best practices in conceptualization, design,

data collection, analysis, and dissemination.

2 THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ESTABLISHMENT STATISTICS

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Monday, June 15

8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Short Courses

5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception

Tuesday, June 16

9:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Opening Keynote Address

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Refreshments

10:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

12:10 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Lunch (on own)

1:40 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

3:20 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. Refreshments


KEY DATES

MAY 7

Early Registration Deadline

MAY 8

Regular Registration Begins

(increased fees apply)

MAY 22

Housing Deadline, 5:00 p.m. ET

JUNE 15–18

ICES VI in New Orleans, LA

Wednesday, June 17

8:30 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

10:10 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Refreshments


12:20 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Lunch (on own)


3:20 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. Refreshments


Thursday, June 18

8:30 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

10:10 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. Posters and Refreshments


12:30 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Lunch (on own)


3:20 p.m. – 4:05 p.m. Posters and Refreshments

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Keynote Address and Closing Ceremony

7:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. ICES VI Banquet

Denotes a ticketed event that requires an additional fee

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 2020 3

FEATURED SPEAKERS

OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Tuesday, June 16

9:00 A.M. – 10:10 A.M.

Roberto Rigobon

Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of

Management and a professor of applied economics at the

MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an economist with

research interests in international economics, monetary

economics, and development economics. He is one of two

founding members of the Billion Prices Project and will talk at

ICES VI about the challenge of developing alternative measures

for economic statistics.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

AND CLOSING CEREMONY

Thursday, June 18

4:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.

Xiao-Li Meng

Meng, founding editor of the Harvard Data Science Review, is

the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor and former chair of statistics

at Harvard and former dean of the Harvard University Graduate

School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). He is well known for his

depth and breadth in research, innovation and passion in

pedagogy, and vision and effectiveness in administration,

as well as his engaging style as a speaker and writer. Meng’s

interests range from the theoretical foundations of statistical

inferences to statistical methods and computation to

applications in natural, social, and medical sciences and

engineering. He has received numerous awards, authored more

than 120 publications, and delivered more than 400 research

presentations and public speeches. He is also the author of “The

XL-Files,” a column in the IMS Bulletin.

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INTRODUCTORY

OVERVIEW LECTURES

Introductory Overview

Lectures (IOLs) provide highlevel

overviews of important

and timely topics relevant to

establishment statistics and

research. IOLs give a basic

understanding of the latest

research in either an established

topic or an emerging field.

Introduction to Business

Surveys – Questionnaire

Design

Introduction to the Use

of Secondary Data

Introduction to Sampling

and Estimation

Coordinated Sampling and

Bayesian Methods Applied to

Small Area Estimation for

Establishment Statistics

Introduction to Issues in

the Production of Official

Establishment Statistics

Introduction to New Data

Sources, New Technologies,

and New Methods

Introduction to New

Measures/Indicators for the

Economy

Variance Estimation

for Probability and

Nonprobability Surveys

SHORT COURSES

Short courses will be offered Monday, June 15.

SHORT COURSE FEES

FULL-DAY

8:30 A.M. – 5:30 P.M.

Automated Data Capture

Instructor(s): Paulo Saraiva dos Santos, Statistics

Portugal

By May 7 After May 5

Full-Day Short Course $250 $280

Half-Day Short Course $150 $165

Automated data capture is a way of collecting

or accessing data to produce offi cial statistics in

which human intervention is minimized or even

suppressed as an alternative to reporting obligations

by electronic or paper forms. The audience

will gain basic knowledge for the design and

development of automated data capture solutions

in the production of official business statistics and

review the evolution of business data collection,

as well as the concepts of business information

chain and its integration.

The challenge of reengineering data collection is

this process will no longer be drawn essentially

through questionnaires, but through data sets.

Thus, a single electronic envelope can contain

data from several companies and with multiple

survey variables. Concepts of technical standardization

and conceptual harmonization will be

discussed, concluding with a practical example of

an automated data capture solution in business

surveys through XML. Hands-on activities will be

incorporated to apply the concepts.

Data Integration and Data

Linking/Matching

Find full descriptions of these

lectures and the full program

in the online program at ww2.

amstat.org/ices under the

Program tab.


SHORT COURSES

HALF-DAY MORNING 8:30 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.

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Small Area Estimation with Examples

in Establishment Surveys

Instructor(s): Isabel Molina, Universidad Carlos III

de Madrid

Demand for timely and reliable small area estimates

derived from survey data has increased

greatly in recent years due to, among other

things, their growing use in formulating policies

and programs, allocation of government funds,

regional planning, and small area business decisions.

Traditional area-specific (direct) estimates

may not provide acceptable precision for small

domains (or areas) because sample sizes in some

domains might be too small or even zero. This

makes it necessary to borrow information across

related domains through indirect estimation

based on implicit or explicit linking models using

auxiliary information such as recent census data

and current administrative data. Methods based on

explicit linking models are now widely accepted.

This course will introduce the basic small-area

estimation methods that might be useful when

analyzing establishment surveys. These procedures

will be illustrated with real data applications in R.

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ww2.amstat.org/ices under the Program tab.

Relevance and Management

of Response Burden

Instructor(s): Mojca Bavdaž, University of

Ljubljana; Deirdre Giesen, Statistics Netherlands

Burden imposed on businesses through surveys has

a political dimension, may reduce data quality and

increase data-collection costs, and affects relations

with the business community. This course will introduce

different concepts of burden, origins of the

burden, and relevance for official statistics. Instructors

will highlight current practices and challenges

of burden measurement. You will get an overview of

burden reduction actions, develop ideas for analyses

of burden data, and discuss burden management

issues such as indicators for burden management,

detecting burden hotspots, and practical constraints.

This morning course can be turned into a full-day

course by also attending the afternoon course

Business Survey Communication and Nonresponse

Reduction Strategies.

Methods for Creating PUF (Public

Use Files)

Instructor(s): Pedro Campos, Statistics Portugal

1. Introduction to Statistical Disclosure Control

− Microdata - Macrodata – PUFs and SUFs

2. Confidentiality in Microdata – Risk (k-anonimity,

i-diversity, t-proximity, record linkage, etc.)

3. Utility (direct measures, etc.)

4. Data Sets

5. Methods for Creating PUFs – Perturbative

Methods – Nonperturbative Methods –

Synthetic Methods

6. Practice and Examples: Data Lab (participants

are welcome to bring their laptops)

with Real Data


SHORT COURSES

HALF-DAY AFTERNOON 1:45 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.

Model-Assisted Estimation

Instructor(s): Kelly McConville, Reed College

This course will provide an overview of modelassisted

estimation with application to establishment

surveys. Participants will practice

fi tting common model-assisted estimators and

estimating their variances in R, using the survey

and mase packages. The assisting model we will

explore includes linear regression, logistic regression,

penalized regression, regression trees,

and random forests. We will balance instruction

and implementation. R Markdown fi les with the

relevant code will be provided so participants

can interact with the R code during demonstrations.

These fi les will be structured so participants

can also easily incorporate their own

examples into the code.

Business Survey Communication and

Nonresponse Reduction Strategies

Instructor(s): Ger Snijkers, Statistics Netherlands;

Diane Willimack, US Census Bureau

How can we achieve response rate goals in business

surveys? While general factors affecting business

survey response have been identified, there

is no single technique that ensures high response

rates. Rather, insights based on understanding

the business context, along with empirical and

experiential evidence, can be used to develop a

cohesive, integrated business survey communication

plan to achieve response goals.

In this course, we will draw upon theory, practical

guidelines, and empirical evidence to aid survey

managers in developing strategies for obtaining

response in their business surveys. We will discuss

factors associated with business respondents’

decisions about whether to respond to a survey,

providing insights into potential response motivators,

as well as obstacles to avoid. A primary focus

of the class will be the development of a cohesive

communication strategy and guidance for implementation

during the pre-field, field, and post-field

stages of data collection, including practical considerations

and pitfalls. We will describe response

enhancement and nonresponse reduction strategies

that may be integrated into an overall communication

plan, including recent empirical evidence

from randomized experiments about the effectiveness

of various techniques. We will define response

metrics used to monitor and manage data

collection activities and demonstrate their use in

adaptive design strategies to assess trade-offs and

target resources to achieve response rate goals

relative to data quality requirements. Finally, we will

challenge participants to apply insights gained from

the course material to address situation(s) for

their own surveys and encourage substantive class

discussion, suggesting potentially useful communication

strategies to consider.

This afternoon course can be made into a fullday

course by also attending the morning course

Relevance and Management of Response Burden.

Multiple Imputation

Instructor(s): Jörg Drechsler, Institute for

Employment Research, Germany

Business data are not spared from missing data,

a common problem in almost any data that can

lead to biased results if the missingness is not

considered at the analysis stage. Multiple imputation

is widely accepted as the most convenient

strategy for dealing with item nonresponse in a

proper way, and most statistical software packages

offer routines to multiply impute missing

values these days. However, when treating the

imputation process as a black box, relying on

the default settings of the software, the cure can

be worse than the disease. The main aim of the

course, therefore, is to illustrate the usefulness

(and limitations) of the approach and enable

students to come up with sensible imputation

strategies when dealing with item nonresponse

in large-scale business surveys. The course

will emphasize practical implementation over

detailed proofs regarding the underlying methodology.

While the course will offer a general

introduction to the topic, specifi c attention will

be given to imputation problems encountered in

the context of business data.

BANQUET

Thursday

7:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

All attendees welcome!

Celebrate a successful

conference by joining

your colleagues for dinner

on your final night

in New Orleans. Please

be sure to request your

ticket when you register.


SUPPORT

STATISTICIANS &

DATA SCIENTISTS

AT ICES VI

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for your support. Visit ww2.amstat.org/ices and click the

Sponsor tab to see sponsorship opportunities.

SPONSORS

SPONSOR LEVELS AND RECOGNITION

PLATINUM

$7,501+

GOLD

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SILVER

$1,000–1,500

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conference website to your

organization’s website

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A thank-you tweet including

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A sponsor table for networking

with attendees

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Onsite, online, and print

recognition in conference

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EXHIBIT

ICES VI provides a great opportunity to meet a targeted group

of statisticians on a one-to-one basis. Opportunities to engage

attendees include the following:

Morning and afternoon

refreshment breaks

Relationship-building opportunities

throughout the conference

Signage throughout the

conference

Listing on the conference website

EXHIBITORS RECEIVE ...

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A 6’ draped table

Two chairs

Signage throughout the conference

Listing on the conference website

Two exhibitor badges

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EXHIBIT FEES

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Gold and Platinum Sponsors .........Included

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Additional six-foot tables ............$500 each

Additional badges ...........................$100 each


CONFERENCE HOTEL

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The Ritz-Carlton New Orleans is in the heart of downtown, within

walking distance of Bourbon Street, world-famous New Orleans

restaurants and live music clubs of the French Quarter, Saenger Theatre,

the Garden District, and the Audubon Insectarium.

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SHORT COURSES Monday, June 15, 2020

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8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Early Regular

❑ SC1: Automated Data Capture

Paulo Saraiva dos Santos, Statistics Portugal

$250 $280 $_________

8:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

❑ SC2: Small Area Estimation with

Examples in Establishment Surveys

Isabel Molina, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

❑ SC3: Relevance and Management of

Response Burden Mojca Bavdaz, University

of Ljubljana; Deirdre Giesen, Statistics

Netherlands

❑ SC4: Methods for Creating PUF (Public

Use Files) Pedro Campos, Statistics Portugal

1:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

❑ SC5: Model-Assisted Estimation

Kelly McConville, Reed College

❑ SC6: Business Survey Communication

and Nonresponse Reduction Strategies

Ger Snijkers, Statistics Netherlands; Diane

Willimack, US Census Bureau

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Institute for Employment Research, Germany

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