Please feel free to send items to publish in future IASS newsletters to james.chipperfield@abs.gov.au

Links to more information

• The January 2020 issue of The Survey Statistician is available: The Survey Statistician January 2020.pdf
• IASS Twitter account @iass_isi

IASS Representation

IASS now has representatives on the following working groups and committees: 

Chris Skinner

The London School of Economics and Political Science released a statement following the death of Professor Chris Skinner on 21 February 2020 http://www.lse.ac.uk/Statistics/People/Professor-Chris-Skinner. I am sure many IASS members knew Chris well and will be saddened by the news. For those who would like to know more about Chris’ life, last year he gave a biographical interview for the International Statistical Review https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/insr.12356 .  

Upcoming 2020 Conferences Supported by IASS

ICES VI – The International Conference on Establishment Statistics will take place 15–18 June in New Orleans, U.S. Website: https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/ices/2020/conferenceinfo.cfm

SAE2020- BigSmall – Conference on Small Area Estimation will be held 6–8 July in Naples, Italy, with a general theme “Big Data for Small Areas”. Website: https://sae2020.org/ 

Summer School on Survey Statistics 2020 will be held 24–28 August in Minsk, Belarus. Website: https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/BNU/Events

11e Colloque International Francophone sur les Sondages – 11th International Francophone Conference on Surveys will be held 13–16 October in Brussels, Belgium.
Website: http://sondages2020.sciencesconf.org

Other 2020 Conferences on survey statistics and related areas

Workshop on the Concept of Quality for Big Data will take place February 25-26 at the Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Website: https://tatk.elte.hu/workshop_concept_of_quality_for_big_data   

The Eleventh Conference on Health Survey Research Methods will take place 4 – 7 March in Williamsburg, U.S. Website: https://hsrmconference.com

Use of R in Official Statistics 2020 – 8th International Conference will take place 6–8 May in Vienna, Austria. Website: http://r-project.ro/conference2020.html

American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference will be held 14-17 May in Atlanta, U.S.Website: https://www.aapor.org/Conference-Events/Annual-Meeting.aspx

12th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods will take place May 31 – June 5 at the Hotel Golf Mar in Porto Novo (near Lisbon), Portugal.Website: https://www.isctsc2020.pt/

Symposium on Data Science & Statistics will take placeJune 3 – 6 in Pittsburgh US. Website https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/sdss/2020/ 

Australian and New Zealand Statistical Conference will take place 6-10 July, Gold Coast, Australia https://anzsc2020.com.au/

Q2020 -10th European Conference on Quality in Official Statisticswill be held 9–12 June in Budapest, Hungary. Website: http://q2020.hu/

2020 American Statistical Association Conference on Statistical Practice will take place 20-22 February in Sacramento, U.S. Website: https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/csp/2020/    

Joint Statistical Meeting with the theme Everyone Counts: Data for the Public Good will take place 1-6^th August in Philadelphia, US. Website: https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2020/index.cfm

BigSurv20 – Big Data Meets Survey Science will be held 4–6 November in Utrecht, Netherlands. Website: https://www.bigsurv20.org

The Survey Research Methods Section (SRMS) of the ASA

Information on activities of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) are available at: https://community.amstat.org/surveyresearchmethodssection/home