Saturday, October 28, 2000
Agenda
9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Michigan Room
The Michigan League
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
9:00Continental Breakfast
9:30Welcome and Introductions
10:00Governance
- Funding sources
- Host organization
- Governing body and role of external research advisors
11:30Sample Design
-Sample selection
-Follow rules
- Oversampling
- Weights and attrition bias
- Sample “refreshing”
1:00Lunch
2:00Content
- Driving policy needs
- Research objectives (maintaining coherence of content domains)
- Benefits of international comparability
- Content decisions (income, wealth, health, employment, family history, data linking)
- Tradeoffs between continuity and the incentives for new directions
3:30Break
4:00Collection
- Mode
- Instrument design (paper and pencil, CATI, EHC)
- Dependent interviewing
- Calendar year, survey year and point of survey measures
5:30Adjournment
7:00Reconvene for Dinner Hosted by Robert J. Willis, HRS/AHEAD
Sunday, October 29, 2000
Agenda
9:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Michigan Room
The Michigan League
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
9:00Continental Breakfast
9:30Day One Summary Remarks
10:00Processing
- Family composition editing
- Production of specialized files
-Data and documentation standards
12:00Lunch
1:00Dissemination
- Dissemination techniques (CD, web)
- Virtual data centers and functionalities
- Improving contractual use of data (confidentiality and encryption)
- Comparability of formats (evolution of data standards)
-Value of joint multinational analysis projects
3:00Wrap up
3:30Adjournment