While 2020 has been a stay-at-home year, SRMS continued its activities. The Joint Statistical Meetings were virtual, but SRMS presented its usual program (which included 10 invited sessions, 14 topic-contributed sessions, eight contributed sessions, one poster session, and four roundtables) and even held a virtual mixer where all were welcome.

Part of SRMS dues goes toward full subscriptions to the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. Every year, we also sponsor student travel awards to JSM and co-sponsor with the Government Statistics and Social Statistics sections a student paper competition to be part of a JSM topic-contributed session.

SRMS works hard to communicate with its members through newsletters every January and July, these Amstat News articles, the ASA Community, and our Twitter account @srmsasa.

For member education, a four-part webinar on weighting was held in November. Our next webinar will be on respondent-driven sampling and led by Krista Gile on January 21 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. EST. Learn more about our webinars.

SRMS also sponsored the Big Data Meets Survey Science (@BigSurv20) conference, which met virtually for five Fridays in November and December.

In 2020, we awarded the section’s first Outstanding Section Service Award to our long-time webmaster, Pushpal Mukhopadhyay. Check out our proceedings site for proceedings that go back to before we split off from the Social Statistics Section in 1978.

In 2021, get involved. We will need candidates for board positions and other volunteers for 2022. Hopefully we can meet in person!