Conference Programme

The conference programme included the following papers.
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Parallel Sessions
Data Dissemination
Organisational Behaviour
Survey Development
Survey Modalities
Survey Software
Effectiveness of the Internet

Session Authors Title

Plenary Sessions

  Norman Glass
(National Centre for Social Research)
How much can technology help research?
David Pullinger
(Office for National Statistics)

Official statistics and their place in democracy  

Peter Mouncey
(
Cranfield University School of Management)

Defending the Defensible: Protecting the Status of Survey Research
Ian Diamond
(Economic and Social Research Council)
The Impact of Technology on the Survey Process. Future Prospects and the Role of the ESRC

Parallel Sessions

Data Dissemination Steve Harris (BMRB International, UK) Apples & Pears - Techniques for Integrating Information
Mickey Yost (USDA/NASS, USA) The Impact of a Data Warehouse on the Survey Process
Jerome Reiter (Duke University, USA) Model diagnostics for remote access servers
Barry Schouten (Statistics Netherlands, NETHERLANDS) Remote access of microdata
Organisational Behaviour

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Garj Basi (BMRB International, UK) The Future of Data Processing
Polly Armsby (RTI International, USA) et al Accessibility & Acceptance of a Virtual Respondent-based Interviewer Training Application
Tony Manners (Office for National Statistics, UK) The Impact of CAI on the Survey Process in the ONS
Karen Barrie (The University of Edinburgh, UK) The Survey Process in the Digital Age
Howard Hogan (US Census Bureau, USA) and Ellen Soper Metaplanning: Lessons in Implementing CMM at the US Census Bureau
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Defeng Ma (University of Edinburgh, UK) et al Developing a Software Suite for Intelligent Questionnaires: Interoperability and Standards
James C. Witte and Roy P. Pargas (Clemson University) The OnQ Survey Database System: Architecture and Implementation
Tim Burrell (Office for National Statistics, UK) First steps along the Audit Trail
Adam Taylor (University of Edinburgh, UK) et al The QDT: a new tool for the future of questionnaire design
Paddy Costigan (National Centre for Social Research, UK) and Steve Elder Does the questionnaire implement the specification? Who knows?
Simon Musgrave (Nesstar, UK) Ensuring a long and healthy life: the metadata dynamic
Survey Modalities

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Sarah Skerratt (University of Newcastle, UK) and Martyn Warren (University of Plymouth) Visiting rural ‘virtual villages’ through online surveys and online ethnography
Tim Macer (Tim Macer Services, UK) We seek them here, we seek them there. How technical innovation in mixed mode survey software is responding to the challenge of finding elusive respondents
Neil Macdonald (Health Protection Agency, UK) and Gillian Elam Impact of CASI on a survey among gay and bi-sexual men using sexual health clinics in the UK
Rebecca Gatward (Office for National Statistics, UK) Interviewing children using Audio-CASI (computer assisted self-interviewing)
Marit Killi (Institute of Transport Economics, NORWAY) and Aase Nossum Internet-based Stated Preference Surveys - studies in public transport and traffic information
Mike Cooke (NOP, UK) et al The Use of SMS as a Research Tool
Dan Coates (SPSS MR Online, USA) The Gold Standard Tarnishes: Is Online Research the Solution?
Vesa Kuusela (Statistics Finland, FINLAND) Mobile Phones and Telephone Survey Methods
Peter Thomas (Office for National Statistics, UK) Data collection initiatives and the collection of business data in the office for national statistics
Simon Duke (MORI, UK) SMS Polling: A Methodological Review
Survey Software

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Daniela Giorgetti (Instituto di Linguistica Computazionale, ITALY) et al Open-ended Survey Coding Using Text Categorization Techniques
Paul Quinn (Pulse Train, UK) et al Write global, run local: Software design issues for global data collection
Hans Stol (SuperCollect b.v., NETHERLANDS) Super-Collect: a data capture system using an electronic network
Louis Tanguay (Voxco, UK)
(in proceedings, not presented)
First installation of a Virtual CATI phone room, with telephony integration
Mark Cameron (Techneos Systems Inc, CANADA) and John Weisberg Building & Using Standard-based Survey Software
John Lyon (ATP, UK) Using mainstream standards for survey analysis
Keith Hughes (Merlinco Ltd, UK) Is the age of batch tabulation over?
Stephen Jenkins (Mercator, UK) and Tony Solomonides (University of West of England) Active Prototypes: Modelling Survey Metadata
Geoff Wright (Computable Functions Ltd, UK) triple-s: managing success
The Effectiveness of the Internet

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Len Bayer (Harris Interactive, USA) and Peter Milla Successfully Delivering the Technology for Online Research
Mick Couper (University of Michigan, USA) et al The Effect of Images on Web Survey Responses
Fred Conrad (University of Michigan, USA) et al Effectiveness of Progress Indicators in Web Surveys
Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd (Queen’s University, Belfast ) Northern Ireland in 3D: Data, Dissemination and Discovery  
Jerold Pearson (Stanford Alumni Association, USA) Salutations and Response Rates on Online Surveys

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