As the sixth in the series of international conferences on establishment statistics, ICES VI is designed to look forward at key issues, methods, and research findings pertaining to establishment statistics. The program committee invites you to submit a proposal for an invited paper session by June 13.

Invited Sessions

There are a limited number of slots for invited sessions. To ensure that all invited sessions are of a consistently high quality, organizers must provide sufficient information to clearly demonstrate the importance of the topic and quality of its contribution. The program committee encourages proposals addressing one or more related topics from various angles, incorporating presenters and perspectives from different countries and organizations.

Invited sessions will last 100 minutes, including floor discussion. The session organizer may choose between the following two formats:

• Two papers (35 minutes each or one longer and one shorter presentation) + discussant (15 minutes) + floor discussions (15 minutes)
• Three papers (25 minutes each) + discussant and floor discussions (25 minutes split among discussant and floor discussion)

Proposal Submission

Session organizers will be asked to submit a proposal that describes the session topic in detail, including the following:

• Names of all session presenters and discussant
• Titles and short descriptions of each presentation

Once you have a sufficient number of committed speakers, you can submit your proposal online until June 13.

Topic-Contributed Sessions

If a proposal is not accepted as an invited session, the organizer can resubmit the proposal as a topic-contributed session with four papers and a discussant. Information about the differences between invited and topic-contributed sessions and their formats will be available on the ICES 2020 website.

Publication

This conference will feature an edited volume. Presenters in invited sessions are highly encouraged to submit their manuscripts for publication consideration. Presenters might also be contacted by a member of the Publication Committee and invited to consider publishing their paper. All invited session presenters are encouraged to include their manuscripts in the conference proceedings.

Suggested Topics

(Additional suggestions are accepted)

– Measuring the economy and sustainable development (e.g., national accounts, new indicators)

– Innovations in businesses relating to new data sources, methods of data collection, and production of statistics

– Establishing and updating business registers (e.g., considering globalization issues)

– Sample design and sample coordination challenges

– Use of new technologies and methodologies for collecting and using data from businesses

– Survey communication, respondent relations, and motivation (including minimizing nonresponse, confidentiality, and survey ethics)

– Big data applications and machine learning methods as applied to establishment statistics

– Data science—usage and integration of different data sources in establishment statistics

– New techniques in statistical data editing and imputation

– Estimation and variance estimation challenges (e.g., robust, model-based, small-area estimation, treatment of nonresponse, nonprobability samples)

– Disclosure avoidance, differential privacy, and formal privacy as applied to skewed distributions

– Treatment of economic time series (including price adjustment, seasonal adjustment, and benchmarking)

– Quality issues and trade-off with costs, response burden, and timeliness of establishment statistics

– Management issues regarding running business surveys and producing business statistics (including generalized survey systems, IT issues, process monitoring, use of paradata)

– Producing establishment statistics in developing countries

– The impact of globalization on producing statistics (e.g., collecting data from businesses in a globalized world, defining the business population and business sample frame, estimation challenges, producing new statistics)

– Unit problem(s)—identification of statistical units and inference about the effects (of misidentification/misclassification) on estimates

– The position of national statistical institutes, survey research agencies, and similar organizations in the modern information market (including changing relationships with respondents, other producers of statistics and users, producing new statistics, and dissemination issues)