Conference Timetable

This is the full schedule of papers for the conference - .
Click on a title to see the abstract - presentations can be downloaded from the programme page


Programme
Overview
Thursday
Friday



Thursday 18th September

09:15 - 09:30 Welcome
09:30 - 10:15 Plenary Session - Key note address:
Norman Glass
(National Centre for Social Research, UK)
How much can technology help research?
10:15 - 11:00 Coffee & Exhibition
11:00 - 12:30 Survey Modalities I Survey Software I Data Dissemination: Remote analysis of microdata Survey Development I
      Tim Macer
(meaning ltd, 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
Keith Hughes
 (Merlinco Ltd, UK)
Batch Tabulation: A Premature Obituary
Barry Schouten
(Statistics Netherlands, NETHERLANDS)
Remote access of microdata
Paddy Costigan
 and Steve Elder
(National Centre for Social Research, UK)
Does the questionnaire implement the specification? Who knows?
      Sarah Skerratt
(University of Newcastle, UK)
and Martyn Warren
 (University of Plymouth)
Visiting rural ‘virtual villages’ through online surveys and online ethnography
John Lyon
(ATP, UK)
Using mainstream standards for survey tabulation and reporting
Demonstration:
The remote access system of the Luxembourg Income Study
Tony Manners
 (Office for National Statistics, UK)
The Impact of CAI on the Survey Process in the ONS
      Marit Killi
and Aase Nossum
(Institute of Transport Economics, NORWAY)
Internet-based Stated Preference Surveys - studies in public transport and traffic information
Geoff Wright
(Computable Functions Ltd, UK)
triple-s: managing success
Jerome Reiter
(Duke University, USA)
 Generalised Linear Model diagnostics for remote access servers
Simon Musgrave
 (Nesstar, UK)
The metadata dynamic: Ensuring data has a long and healthy life
12:30 - 13:00 Poster & Exhibition
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Survey Modalities II Survey Software II   Survey Development II
      Mike Cooke
(NOP, UK) et al
The Use of SMS as a Research Tool
Daniela Giorgetti
(Instituto di Linguistica Computazionale, ITALY)
et al
Automatic Codng of Open-ended Survey Coding Using Text Categorization Techniques
  James C. Witte
and Roy P. Pargas
(Clemson University)
The OnQ Survey Database System: Architecture and Implementation
      Joel Down and Simon Duke
(MORI, UK)
 SMS Polling: A Methodological Review
Stephen Jenkins
(Mercator, UK)
and Tony Solomonides
 (University of West of England)
Active Prototypes: Modelling Survey Metadata
  Adam Taylor
and
Defeng Ma
(University of Edinburgh, UK)
a joint presentation of IQML

The QDT: a new tool for the future of questionnaire design and
Developing a Software Suite for Intelligent Questionnaires: Interoperability and Standards
15:30 - 16:15 Coffee & Exhibition
16:15 - 17:00 Plenary Session: David Pullinger
(Head of  National Statistics Online, ONS, UK)
Official statistics and their place in democracy
17:15 - 18:45 triple-s meeting
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Friday 19th September

09:15 - 10:00 Plenary Session: Peter Mouncey
(Cranfield University School of Management)
Defending the Defensible: Protecting the Status of Survey Research
10:00 - 10:45 Coffee & Exhibition
10:45 - 12:15 Survey Modalities III Survey Software III Organisational Behaviour I The Effectiveness of the Internet I
      Peter Thomas
(Office for National Statistics, UK)
Data collection initiatives and the collection of business data in the Office for National Statistics
Paul Quinn and
Leonid Sokolovsky
(Pulse Train, UK)
 Write global, run local: Software design issues for global data collection
Garj Basi
(BMRB International, UK)
 Data Processing: Facing the Challenges in a Commercial Market Research Agency
Fred Conrad
(University of Michigan, USA) et al
Effectiveness of Progress Indicators in Web Surveys
      Rebecca Gatward
(Office for National Statistics, UK)
Interviewing children using Audio-CASI
Hans Stol
(SuperCollect b.v., NETHERLANDS)
Super-Collect: a data capture system using an electronic network
Polly Armsby
(RTI International, USA) et al
Accessibility & Acceptance of a Virtual Respondent-based Interviewer Training Application
Mick Couper
(University of Michigan, USA) et al
The Effect of Images on Web Survey Responses
      Neil Macdonald
and Gillian Elam
 (Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, UK)
Impact of CASI on a survey among gay and bi-sexual men using sexual health clinics in the UK
Mark Cameron
and John Weisberg
(Techneos Systems Inc, CANADA)
 Building & Using Standard-based Survey Software
Tim Burrell
 (Office for National Statistics, UK)
First steps along the Audit Trail
Jerold Pearson
(Stanford Alumni Association, USA) and
Roger A Levine
(American Institutes for Research)
 Salutations and Response Rates on Online Surveys
12:15 - 12:45 Poster & Exhibition
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Survey Modalities IV Data Dissemination: Integrating access to systems and data Organisational Behaviour II The Effectiveness of the Internet II
      Vesa Kuusela
(Statistics Finland, FINLAND)
 Mobile Phones and Telephone Survey Methods
Steve Harris
(BMRB International, UK)
 Apples & Pears - Techniques for Integrating Information
Karen Barrie
(University of Edinburgh, UK)
The Survey Process in the Digital Age
Paula Devine and
Katrina Lloyd
(Queen's University, Belfast, UK)
Northern Ireland in 3D: Data, Dissemination & Discovery
      Dan Coates
(SPSS MR Online, USA)
The Gold Standard Tarnishes: Is Online Research the Solution?
Mickey Yost
(USDA/NASS, USA)
The Impact of a Data Warehouse on the Survey Process
Howard Hogan
 and Ellen Soper
(US Census Bureau, USA)
 Software Process Improvement Efforts at the US Census Bureau. Experience of the Economic Directorate
Len Bayer
 and Peter Milla
 (Harris Interactive, USA)
 Successfully Delivering the Technology for Online Research
15:15 - 16:00 Plenary Session: Ian Diamond
(Economic and Social Research Council)
The Impact of Technology on the Survey Process. Future Prospects and the Role of the ESRC
16:00 - 16:15 Final announcements, prizes
      Coffee and close

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