The Proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section (SRMS) from the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore is now available. It also includes the 2017 Proceedings of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. What is new to this year’s edition is that if a speaker has submitted the corresponding presentation to the ASA, the presentation can also be accessible at this proceedings website. We hope you find this helpful if you missed the presentations at JSM 2017. If you discover any error or missing paper, please contact the SRMS publication officer, Tony An.
2018 Joint Statistical Meetings Update
Get ready for Vancouver! SRMS has put together a rich and exciting program. This year, SRMS sponsors one half-day short course, 11 invited sessions (including co-sponsored), one invited panel, 12 topic-contributed sessions, 10 contributed sessions, one poster session, three speed sessions, and two roundtable luncheon discussions.
In memory of the prominent survey statistician Alastair Scott, an invited session will be held on Thursday, August 2.
Everyone is encouraged to attend our annual SRMS business meeting at 6 p.m. in the Malaspina Room in the Fairmont Waterfront on Wednesday, August 1. Several awards will be given at the meeting, including the joint SRMS/GSS/SSS student paper awards, whose papers are presented in a session on Monday, July 30.
Here is a preview of the SRMS lineup at JSM 2018.
- Half-day course (added fee event) on Tuesday, July 31: Applications of Hot Deck Imputation Methods to Survey Data, led by Rebecca Andridge of The Ohio State University College of Public Health and Katherine Thompson of the US Census Bureau. This course will provide an introduction to the use of hot deck imputation with survey data. Attendees will be exposed to both the theoretical and practical sides to hot deck imputation and examples will be illustrated using both SAS and R.
The invited papers and panel sessions sponsored or co-sponsored by SRMS include the following:
- Statistical Analysis of Linked Data, Sunday, July 29
- Improving Survey Data Quality with Machine Learning Techniques, Tuesday, July 31
- Inference with Clustered Data: Lessons from Multiple Disciplines, Wednesday, August 1
- In Memoriam: Alastair Scott, Thursday, August 2
- Administrative Records for Survey Methodology and Evidence Building, Monday, July 30
- Transparency, Reproducibility, and Replicability in Work with Social and Economic Data, Sunday, July 29
- Ethical Implication of the Failure of Anonymization, Monday, July 30
- Seeing the World as a Missing Data Problem: Celebrating 40 Years of Multiple Imputation, Monday, July 30
- The Potential for Web-Scraping in the Production of Official Statistics: An Opportunity for Statistics to Lead?, Wednesday, August 1
- Using Surveys to Improve the Representativeness of Nonprobability Samples in Epidemiologic Studies, Wednesday, August 1
- Prospects for Combining Survey and Administrative Data for Income Measurement, Thursday, August 2
- Current Federal Research on Improving Measurement of LGBT Populations, Thursday, August 2
A great way to obtain a large amount of information about new research in a short period is to attend the speed sessions. A speed session assigns four minutes for oral presentation to each presenter. Then, presentations are displayed as electronic posters at a later time so attendees can learn more. The three SRMS contributed speed sessions this year are the following:
- Missing Survey Data: Analysis, Imputation, Design and Prevention
- Innovations in Survey Sampling Designs: Administrative Data, Record Linkage, Non-Probability Samples, and More
- Applications of Advanced Statistical Techniques in Complex Survey Data Analysis: Small Area Estimation, Propensity Scores, Multilevel Models, and More
Two roundtable luncheon discussions (added fee events) sponsored by SRMS are the following:
- Adaptive Design: Challenges in Practice, led by Michael Yang of NORC. He will share his experience implementing adaptive designs, explore practical adaptive design options, and discuss future research directions.
- Non-Probability Sampling, led by Karol Krotki of RTI International. He will discuss real-world examples of non-probability sampling and touch on the future role of this methodology in survey research.
The topic-contributed sessions sponsored by SRMS are the following:
- Recent Research on Current Population Survey, Sunday, July 29
- Survey Design and Data Adjustment Decisions in Mixed-Mode Surveys, Monday, July 30
- Best Student Papers Awarded by the ASA Consortium of GSS/SSS/SRMS, Monday, July 30
- Small Area Estimation with Small Samples, Tuesday, July 31
- Official Statistics and Small Area Estimation, Tuesday, July 31
- Probabilistic Record Linkage: Better Assumptions, Scalable Inference, and Accounting for Uncertainty, Wednesday, August 1
- Measuring Household Wealth in Europe: The Household Finance and Consumption Survey, Wednesday, August 1
- Statistical Explorations for the Post-Enumeration Survey of the US 2020 Census, Wednesday, August 1
- Using Para-Data to Analyze the Determinants and Impact of Interview Length, Thursday, August 2
- Statistical Challenges in Combining Survey and Administrative Data, Thursday, August 2
The contributed sessions sponsored by SRMS are the following:
- Advances in Sampling Techniques and Tools, Sunday, July 29
- Nonresponse Adjustment and Weighting, Monday, July 30
- Replicate Weights and Variance Estimation, Monday, July 30
- Statistical Models in Survey Sampling and Analysis, Tuesday, July 31
- Issues in Survey Design and Estimation, Tuesday, July 31
- Survey Modes and Measurement Error, Wednesday, August 1
- Advances in Small Area Estimation, Wednesday, August 1
- The Use of Auxiliary Data in Frame Development, Coverage Assessment, and Field Data Collection, Thursday, August 2
- Practical Aspects of Survey Design and Analysis, Thursday, August 2
- Imputation and Analysis of Missing Survey Data, Thursday, August 2
For the complete JSM program, including up-to-date times and locations for all sessions, visit the 2018 JSM website.
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