Events
Name 22nd Statistics Canada annual International Symposium "Methodological Challenges for Future Information Needs"
Organized by Canadian Statistics
Where
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
From 25.10.2005
To 28.10.2005
Description
This international event addresses issues of statistical methodology relevant to the work of a government statistical agency as well as to a broader statistical community including universities, industry and other organizations.
The theme of this symposium will focus on the information gathering and dissemination in the context of official statistical programs. In addition to two plenary sessions, there will be two streams of parallel sessions. The first will be concerned more with issues related to the gathering of information, while the second will focus on issues related to dissemination. Topics to be covered include:
- Sources of data
- Administrative Data
- Registers
- Respondent relations
- Standardized concepts and questionnaires
- Data collection
- Metadata
- Confidentiality
- Data analysis
- Data quality
- Data integration
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is May 13, 2005.
