Census Bureau staff participation in the 2015 JSM follows:

• 2:00 - 3:50 Theory and Methods for Massive Spatial Data
  • 2:05pm - Soutir Bandyopadhyay, Spatial Modeling of the American Community Survey
• 2:00 - 3:50 Frame and Coverage Issues
  • Kenneth Pick, Chair
• 2:00 - 3:50 Computing with Graph, Process, and Other Nonstandard Data
  • 2:50pm - Andrew M. Raim, Mixture Link Models for Binomial Data with Overdispersion
• 4:00 - 5:50 Poverty, Government Program Receipt, and Measurement Using Administrative and Survey Data
  • 4:45pm - Graton M.R. Gathright, Bias from Unit Nonresponse in the Measurement of Household Income in CPS and SIPP
• 4:00 - 5:50 Using Multiple Sources of Data
  • Jennifer Childs, Chair
  • 4:05pm - Mary Mulry, Are Proxy Responses Better Than Administrative Records?
• 4:00 - 5:50 Small-Area Estimation
  • 4:20pm - Ryan Janicki, Estimation of the Difference of Small-Area Parameters from Different Time Periods
  • 4:35pm - Bac Tran, An Evaluation of Different Small-Area Estimators and Benchmarking for the Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll
• 4:00 - 5:50 Survey Design
  • 4:50pm - Bruce Webster, Estimating Taxes for the Redesigned CPS ASEC Sample

• 8:30 - 10:20 Bayesian Approaches to Record Linkage
  • 9:55am - William E. Winkler, Discussant
• 8:30 - 10:20 Recent Advances in Statistical Methodology for Small-Area Estimation and Federal Surveys
  • 9:25am - William R. Bell, On Borrowing Information Over Time in Small-Area Estimation
• 8:30 - 10:20 Student Paper Awards
  • 8:35am - Robert Ashmead, Health Care Policy Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching: A Study of Care Consistent with a Patient-Centered Medical Home Using a Large Population Survey
• 8:30 - 10:20 Innovative Approaches to Administrative Records
  • 8:50am - Amy O'Hara, Exploring Mobility with Survey and Tax Data
• 8:30 - 10:20 Calibration
  • 8:50am - Brian Shaffer, Results of Calibration Research for the 2015 American Housing Survey
  • 9:35am - Stephen Ash, Combining Nonresponse and Calibration Adjustments in Weighting
• 10:30 - 12:20 The Census Bureau's Quest to Make Better Research-Driven Decisions for Economic Surveys
  • Diane K. Willimack, Chair
  • 10:35am - Martin Klein, Evaluating Estimation Techniques in the Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey
  • 10:55am - Erica Marquette, Testing Contact Strategies to Improve Response in the 2012 Economic Census
  • 11:15am - Katherine Jenny Thompson, On Recommending a Single Imputation Method for Economic Census Products
  • 11:35am - Brian Dumbacher, A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Estimation for the Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll
• 10:30 - 12:20 Time Series: Benchmarking and Reconciliation
  • Tucker Sprague McElroy, Organizer
• 10:30 - 12:20 SIE CP14: EPI Methods
  • Asaph Young Chun, Chair
• 2:00 - 3:50 Time Series: Autoregressive Processes, Seasonality, and Unit Roots
  • 2:05am - Brian Monsell, A Moving Window Approach to Model-Based Seasonal Adjustment
  • 2:35am - Nicole Czaplicki, To Revise or Not to Revise? Investigating the Behavior of X-13ARIMA-SEATS Seasonal Adjustment Revisions as New Series Values Are Added
  • 2:50am - Demetra Lytras, On Seasonality: Comparing X-13ARIMA-SEATS Diagnostics
• 2:00 - 3:50 Working with Missing Data: Nonresponse, Imputation, and Suppressed Data
  • 2:35am - Adam Bee, Using Imputation to Combine Samples with Different Survey Instruments
  • 2:50am - Bei Wang, Reducing the Infeasibility and Oversuppression for M-LP Cell Suppression
• 2:00 - 3:50 Area-Based Samples
  • 3:20am - Danielle Neiman, Review of the 2015 Sample Redesign of the Consumer Expenditures Survey
• 2:00 - 3:50 Methodology: Model Fit
  • Amy O'Hara, Chair

• 8:30 - 10:20 Innovations in Survey Statistics with Applications
  • 9:00am - Jay Breidt, Design and Estimation Considerations for Stratum Jumping in the National Survey of College Graduates
• 8:30 - 10:20 Calibration and Semiparametric Techniques in Survey and Biostatistical Research
  • 9:15am - Eric Slud, Weighted Estimating Equations Based on Response Propensities in Terms of Covariates That Are Observed Only for Responders
• 8:30 - 10:20 Spatial and Time Series Modeling
  • 9:05am - Anindya Roy, Moment-Based Estimation of VARMA Parameters
• 10:30 - 12:20 Adaptive Design
  • Nancy Bates, Chair
  • 10:35am - Allison Zotti, Monitoring Response Data and Respondent Representativeness to Develop Adaptive Survey Design Interventions
  • 10:50am - Stephanie Coffey, Implementing Static Adaptive Design in the National Survey of College Graduates Using the Results of an Incentive Timing Experiment
  • 11:35am - Gina Walejko, Monitoring Field Procedures to Develop Adaptive Survey Design Interventions
  • 11:50am - Chandra Erdman, Examining the Predictive Power of Response Propensity Models in Varied Survey Designs
• 10:30 - 12:20 Contributed Oral Poster Presentations: Business and Economic Statistics Section
  • 10:57am - Osbert Pang, Examining Diagnostics for Trading-Day Effects from X13-ARIMA-SEATS
• 2:00 - 3:50 Evaluating Alternative Imputation Methods for Economic Census Products: The
  • Demetra Lytras, Chair
  • 2:05am - Yukiko Ellis, Exploratory Data Analysis of Economic Census Products: Methods and Results
  • 2:25am - Maria M. Garcia, Implementation of Ratio Imputation and Sequential Regression Multivariate Imputation on Economic Census Products
  • 2:45am - Kevin Tolliver, Implementation of Hot Deck Imputation on Economic Census Products
  • 3:05am - Jeremy Knutson, Evaluation of Alternative Imputation Methods for Economic Census Products: The Cook-Off
• 2:00 - 3:50 Protecting Privacy While Maximizing the Utility of Government Data: Evaluating
  • 3:05am - Michael Freiman, Developing and Testing the Microdata Analysis System
• 2:00 - 3:50 Linking Survey Data to Administrative Records: Issues in Consent, Bias, and
  • 2:05am - Jennifer Childs, Demographic and Attitudinal Predictors of Respondent Reactions to Using Administrative Records
• 2:00 - 3:50 Statistical Quality and Estimation Validation: Measuring the Benefits
  • 2:50am - Joseph Barth, Improving the Annual Survey of Local Government Finances' Sample Design and Estimation
  • 3:05am - Ernest Lawley, Are State-Level Estimates for the American Housing Survey Feasible?
• 2:00 - 3:50 Disclosure Avoidance, Data Privacy, and Perturbed Data: Protecting Sensitive Data
  • 2:05am - William Wisniewski, Disclosure Avoidance Techniques at the U.S. Census Bureau
  • 2:35am - Aref Dajani, Measuring the Degree of Difference in Perturbed Data
  • 3:20am - Martin Klein, On a Comparison of Singly and Multiply Imputed Partially Synthetic Data Under Plug-In Sampling
• 2:00 - 3:50 Data Quality
  • 2:20am - Kenneth Pick, Assessing Measurement Errors in a Survey on Energy Use by Manufacturing Businesses

• 7:00 - 8:15 Survey Research Methods Section A.M. Roundtable Discussion (Added Fee)
  • WL06 - William Winkler, Record Linkage: Introductory Overview
• 8:30 - 10:20 Perils and Potentials of Self-Selected Entry to Epidemiological Studies and Surveys
  • 8:55am - Thomas A. Louis, Perils and Potentials of Self-Selected Entry to Epidemiological Studies and Surveys: Part II, Survey Focus
• 8:30 - 10:20 SPEED: Issues in Sample Survey and Government Statistics
  • 10:10am - James Livsey, Interactive X-13ARIMA-SEATS Seasonal Adjustment Using R
• 8:30 - 10:20 Online Surveys
  • 8:50am - Michael Bentley, 2014 Census Test Results on Alternative Methods to Optimize Self-Response for the 2020 Census
• 10:30 - 12:20 Utilizing Administrative Records and Adaptive Design in the 2020 Census
  • Vincent Thomas Mule, Chair
  • 10:35am - Darcy Steeg Morris, Administrative Record Research to Reduce Contacts in the 2020 Census
  • 11:00am - Scott Konicki, Adaptive Design Research for the 2020 Census
  • 11:25am - Andrew Keller, Imputation Research for the 2020 Census
• 10:30 - 12:20 Sampling Design and Pre-Survey Benefits
  • 11:35am - Richard Hough, Impact of Internet-only Reporting on Response in the Business R&D and Innovation Survey
  • 12:05am - Matthew Herbstritt, Results and Data Analysis for the 2013 Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife--Associated Recreation Survey's Pre-Screener Test
• 10:30 - 12:20 Weighting and Design Effects
  • 10:50am - James Dahlhamer, Assessing the Utility of Interviewer Observations for Nonresponse Adjustments in the National Health Interview Survey
• 10:30 - 12:20 Society and Networks
  • Ron S. Jarmin, Chair
• 11:35 - 12:20 SPEED: Issues in Sample Survey and Government Statistics, Part 2
  • #20 - James Livsey, Interactive X-13ARIMA-SEATS Seasonal Adjustment Using R
• 2:00 - 3:50 Imputation Methods: Challenges with Complex Designs and Complex Data
  • Katherine Jenny Thompson, Chair
  • 2:30pm - Jonathan Rothbaum, SRMI Multiple Imputation in the CPS ASEC
• 2:00 - 3:50 Marvin Zelen: Statistical Scientist, Leader, Mentor, and Advocate
  • Thomas A. Louis, Panelist
• 2:00 - 3:50 Imputation of Missing Data
  • 2:35pm - Chin-Fang Weng, Bayesian Multiple Imputation for Count Data with Zero Inflation
• 2:00 - 3:50 Sample Allocation
  • 2:35pm - Tommy Wright, A Simple and General Algorithm for Exact Optimal Sample Allocation That Is More Efficient Than Neyman Allocation

• 8:30 - 10:20 Improved Estimation of Small-Area Characteristics
  • Gauri S. Datta, Organizer
  • 8:55am - Jerry Maples, Improving Small-Area Estimates of Disability: A Model-Based Approach to Combining the American Community Survey with the Survey of Income and Program Participation
  • 9:15am - Gauri S. Datta, Prediction Intervals of Small-Area Means Under Semiparametric Measurement Error Models
  • 9:55am - Jiashen You, Mixture Model and EM Algorithm in Small-Area Estimation
• 8:30 - 10:20 Privacy Preservation and the Use of Synthetic Data for Public Use Statistics
  • 8:55am - Lars Vilhuber, Assessing the Data Quality of Public Use Tabulations Produced from Synthetic Data: Synthetic Business Dynamics Statistics
• 8:30 - 10:20 Quality Assurance of Agile Survey Methodology in Informing Better Decisions in Humanitarian Emergencies
  • Asaph Young Chun, Organizer
  • Asaph Young Chun, Panelist
• 10:30 - 12:20 Professionalism, Professional Identity, and Training for Ethical Statistical Practice
  • Howard R. Hogan, Chair
• 10:30 - 12:20 Cross-Cultural Survey Design and Implementation
  • Bruce Webster, Chair
• 10:30 - 12:20 Data Presentation Standards Within the Federal Statistical System
  • Ron S. Jarmin, Panelist
• 10:30 - 12:20 Analyzing the American Community Survey
  • Krista Heim, Chair
  • 10:35am - Rachael Walsh, Using Local Knowledge During Data Collection: Does It Make a Difference Who Applies It and When?
  • 10:50am - Michael Beaghen, The Reliability of American Community Survey Five-Year Estimates of Race Groups and American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
  • 11:05am - John Chesnut, Response Model--Based Stratification Using Auxiliary Frame Data for the Tailored Assignment of the Internet and Mail Self-Response Modes
  • 11:20am - Keith Albright, Investigating Methods to Support Subannual Estimates in the American Community Survey
  • 11:35am - Richard Griffin, Preliminary Investigation of Variance Issues Related to Generalized Regression Estimation Used for American Community Survey Five-Year Estimates
• 10:30 - 12:20 Methodology: Evaluation Approaches
  • Graton M.R. Gathright, Chair