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Statistics Canada kindly offered to host the 2017 UNECE Data Collection Workshop. It will be held from 10 to 12 October in Ottawa, Canada.
The objective of this workshop is to identify innovative ways and best practices in statistical data collection, and to provide a platform for practitioners to exchange experiences and foster collaboration in this area. In addition to the more traditional presentations, the agenda of the workshop will include target-driven small group discussions to identify best practices and new opportunities. The target audience for the workshop includes senior and middle-level managers responsible for data collection activities and new data sources, across all statistical domains from Statistical Offices and other agendies from national and international statistical systems.
The programme of the workshop will consist of the following substantive topics:
- Modernisation of data collection management and integration of data collection infrastructures and technologies;
- Use of new technologies, skills and mind-set for data collection;
- Alternative sources and ways of data collection to reduce survey burden;
- Communication with respondents; and
- Data collection by collaboration and coproduction.
Fourth Data Collection Workshop 2016:
The 2016 UNECE Workshop on Statistical Data Collection: 'Visions on Future Surveying' was held back-to-back with the Workshop on Statistical Dissemination and Communication. It was well attended with nearly 140 unique participants for the joint day of the workshops and over 90 participants for the Data Collection Workshop itself. Participants from around fifty different countries and organisations from all permanently inhabited continents saw around 50 excellent presentations (24 for Data Collection, 5 on the joint day and 20 for Dissemination and Communication). Additionally, in the special event on the joint day, 12 teams competed against each other in producing tangible output. For each session, main lessons learned and topics for future work were identified by sub-groups. Through and inclusive and democratic process, the following main topics were identified for future work in the area of Data Collection:
- Mobile devices for data collection (increases response rate, but is it a different mode and should we adapt the design and/or shorten the questionnaire)
- Skills and mind-set needed for our future data collection methods
- Paradata: how to structure, understand and us it
- New methods such as integration sources and sampling techniques to reduce survey burden
- Design shorter questionnaires (what do we really need, identify key questions, maximise result while minimise size, paradigm change of staff)
- Use of nudging initiatives in communicating with respondents
- Measure the impact of personalized feedback (cost-benefit)
- How to integrate Big Data and other new sources into integrated data management systems
- Behavioural studies for design and communication strategies
- Improve partnerships with data providers
- Measure the effectiveness of incentives and their impact on data quality
The 2015 Data Collection Workshop: Riding the Wave of the Data Deluge was successfully held from 29 April to 1 May in Washington D.C., United States of America. It was held back-to-back with the Workshop on the Communication of Statistics (27-29 April). We thank participants, organizers and steering committee members for their contributions.
The 2017 Data Collection Workshop will be held from 10 to 12 October in Ottawa, hosted by Statistics Canada. Click to register. Thirty abstracts have been submitted. It will be a two-and-half-days workshop starting at noon on Tuesday 10 October. Canada is part of the UNECE region.
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The conference topics include, but are not limited to:
Pilot experiments and experiments embedded in statistical production
- Data collection modes
- Non-response, response propensity, respondent behaviour and response burden
- Administrative and registry data
- Big Data and other non-traditional Data Sources
- Versatile data collection systems (adaptive surveys, modular surveys/systems, split questionnaires…)
- Horizontally integrated data collection systems
The NTTS 2015 conference will take place from 10 to 12 March 2015 in Brussels. For details on the event, please refer to the conference homepage.