CNSTAT Public Seminars and Other Symposia
CNSTAT’s regular meetings in May and October traditionally include a public seminar on a topic of interest to the Washington statistical and economic measurement community. Ranging from keynote addresses to panel discussions, seminars have addressed crosscutting topics in federal and private survey research (such as general increases in nonresponse) and production of statistics (such as discrepant—and seemingly competing—estimates of social and economic phenomena). Economic topics have also been spotlighted, such as possibilities for national time accounting.
In addition to these public seminars, CNSTAT staff and committee volunteers participate at various professional association conferences and meetings, disseminating the work and activities of the Committee on National Statistics. CNSTAT has also been a regular sponsor of similar activities such as the Morris Hansen Lecture.
May 10, 2013
Changing Social Structures and the Meaning of ‘Household’ in Federal Surveys
Speakers: Rose Kreider, Census Bureau; Nancy Bates, Census Bureau; Judith Seltzer, UCLA; Margo Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Announcement
October 19, 2012
Reflections on Election Polling and Forecasting from Inside the Boiler Room
Speakers: Scott Keeter, Pew Research Center; Joseph Lenski, Edison Research; Clyde Tucker, CNN Decision Desk
Discussant: Robert Groves, Georgetown University
Announcement
Presentations
October 9, 2012
Morris Hansen Lecture - Thank you Morris et al., for Westat et al.
Speaker: Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia University
Discussants: Margo Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Dan Gaylin, NORC at the University of Chicago
May 11, 2012
The Future of Social Science Data Collection
Speaker: Roger Tourangeau, Westat
Discussants: Nancy Bates, U.S. Census Bureau; Art Kennickell, Federal Reserve Board; Reg Baker, Market Strategies International
Announcement
November 4, 2011
The Story of the Netflix Prize (Joint Seminar of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics and CNSTAT)
Speakers: Robert Bell, AT&T Labs Research; Emmanuel Candes, Stanford University; Lester Mackey, University of California, Berkeley
Videocast
October 21, 2011
The Effects of the Great Recession on Our Economy and Society: Insights from Public Data
Speakers: Alan Zaslavsky (CNSTAT; Harvard Medical School); Michael Hout (CNSTAT; University of California, Berkeley); Timothy Smeeding (University of Wisconsin–Madison); —S. Philip Morgan (Duke University)
Discussant: Lisa Lynch (CNSTAT; Brandeis University)—Discussant
October 18, 2011
Morris Hansen Lecture - Total Survey Error: Missing Conceptual Components and Design-Based/Model-Based Viewpoints
Speakers: Robert M. Groves, U.S. Census Bureau; Roderick J. Little, U.S. Census Bureau and University of Michigan
Discussant: Natalie Shlomo, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton
May 6, 2011
The Potential Role of Technology-Driven Nongovernment Data Collection for Federal Statistics
Speakers: Lisa Lynch, Brandeis University; Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School of Management
Discussants: John Abowd, Cornell University; Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia University
October 22, 2010
The Survey Methodology Pipeline—Providing Needed Expertise for the Federal Statistical System
Speakers: Sally Morton, University of Pittsburgh; Roger Tourandeau, University of Maryland; Graham Kalton, Westat; Cheryl Eavey, NSF
Discussants: John Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Rod Little, U.S. Census Bureau
October 10, 2010
Morris Hansen Lecture - Dealing with Survey Nonresponse: In Data Collection, in Estimation
Speaker: Carl-Erik Särndal, Statistics Sweden
Discussants: J. Michael Brick, Westat; Roger Tourangeau, University of Michigan
May 7, 2010
Using Administrative and Survey Data to Inform Health Policy—A Federal Statistical System Initiative
Speaker: Edward Sondik, National Center for Health Statistics
October 30, 2009
Challenges for Policy Uses of Economic Statistics
Speakers: David Romer, University of California at Berkeley; Jeremy Rudd, U.S. Treasury Department
Discussants: Keith Hall, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Steven Landefeld, Bureau of Economic Analysis; Thomas Mesenbourg, U.S. Census Bureau
May 8, 2009
The Federal Statistical System—Recognizing Its Contributions; Moving It Forward (Joint Symposium of the Committee on National Statistics and the American Academy of Political and Social Science)
Speakers: Peter Orszag, Office of Management and Budget; John Holdren, Office of Science and Technology Policy
