2015 International Total Survey Error Conference

Sunday, September 20

Contributed Paper Sessions I:

9:30 – 11:30 a.m.

• Interactions of Survey Error and Ethnicity I
• Interviewer Effects Across Error Sources
• Nonresponse
• Data Falsification: Who, Why and How to Detect It
• Methods for Assessing and Integrating Solutions for Total Survey Error in a Large National Survey: The National Crime Victimization Survey
• Coverage Error in Practice: Operational Issues for Measuring Frame Coverage of Demographic Surveys
• Record Linkage

Contributed Paper Sessions II:

1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

• Errors in Panel Survey
• Interviewer Effects Following the Total Survey Error Framework
• Improving Survey Data Quality Under Total Survey Error Framework: Application to Two Surveys of U.S.   NSF – National Survey College Graduates (NSCG) and Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR)
• The TSE Framework: Looking Back and Looking Forward
• Infrastructure for the Use of Big Data to Understand TSE: Examples from Four Survey Research Organizations
• Assessing Survey Response Error Using Administrative Records and Evaluating Administrative Records 
• Coverage

Plenary Session I:

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Colm O’Muircheartaigh, PhD
University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and a Senior Fellow at NORC

Attendee Cocktail Reception

6:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Monday, September 21

Plenary Session II:

9:30 – 11:30 a.m. 

Abe Usher, MS
Chief Technology Officer of HumanGeo

Contributed Paper Sessions III:

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

• Nonresponse and Measurement Error I
• Errors in Web Surveys as the Main Mode
• Data Harmonization
• Mixed Mode Surveys
• Errors in Establishment Surveys
• Applying TSE Framework to Comparative Surveys I • Coverage and Nonresponse

Contributed Paper Sessions IV:

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

• Nonresponse and Measurement Error II • Error Sources in Web Surveys
• Classification and Editing
• Errors in Surveys on Mobile Devices
• Estimating and Adjusting Survey Errors in Mixed- Mode Data, Part I
• Applying TSE Framework to Comparative Surveys II • Analytic Error

Tuesday, September 22

Contributed Paper Sessions V:

9:30 – 11:30 a.m.

• Interactions of Survey Error and Ethnicity II
• Estimating Total Survey Error
• Measurement Error
• Does Big Data Mean Lower Quality Data?
• Dealing With Nonsampling Error in PIAAC
• Uses of Geographic Information Systems Tools in Survey Data Collection and Analysis
• Paradata and Responsive Design

Contributed Paper Sessions VI:

1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

• Nonprobability Sampling Methods from a Total Survey Error Perspective
• Teaching TSE and Big Data: Presentations and Roundtable Discussion
• Survey Innovations in a Total Survey Error Context
• Big Data from TSE Perspective
• Estimating and Adjusting Survey Errors in Mixed- Mode Data, Part II
• Adaptive Design