2020 ICES VI Reg Guide

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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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
6 THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ESTABLISHMENT STATISTICS