Events
Montréal, Quebéc, Canada
The ICES series of conferences serves an important role in the world of survey methodology. Few other conferences focus on methods and applications for establishment surveys.
The first three, held at seven-year intervals from 1993 to 2007, were very successful with more than 400 delegates per conference. The conferences covered a broad spectrum of survey methods for businesses, farms, and institutions. The fourth conference will continue this. Examples of potential topics include:
- Efficient Use of Administrative Data in Business Surveys
- Advances in Disclosure Protection
- Usage of Linearization Variance Estimators for Survey Estimates
- The New Direction of Business Surveys
- Collecting Data Electronically from Businesses
- Updating Business Registers
- Sample Design Challenges
- Factors that Affect Establishment Survey Participation
- Generalized Survey Processing Systems - An Update
- Measuring Nonresponse Bias
- Issues of Multi-Mode Data Collection