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March 25, 1998: American Community Survey Symposium

The American Community Survey (ACS) is designed to provide annual updated estimates of the 2000 census long form items beginning with year 2003 data. The first estimates from the ACS demonstration sites are available on the Internet. They include estimates for all block groups, tracts, and functioning governmental units within each site. Four sites were included in the first full year test of ACS data collection in 1996. The Census Bureau plans to increase the number of sites for 1997-2002 with full national implementation of ACS in 2003. This symposium is designed to acquaint participants with the status of the ACS program and major research issues, and to discuss interesting results from initial analyses of the data. These analyses include some comparisons with 1990 census data, respondent characteristics by mode of data collection, and some effects of the weighting process.

The symposium will be held at the U.S. Bureau of the Census, located just outside of Washington, DC. For further information contact Lynn Weidman via e-mail at lweidman@census.gov.

Conference registration is free.

To register contact:

Kathryn Maney
ACSD, Room 3039-3
Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC 20233-1915
ph: 301-457-2308
FAX: 301-457-3682
e-mail: Kathryn.J.Maney@ccmail.census.gov.

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March 26-27, 1998 -- Conference on Small Area Estimation, U.S. Census Bureau

This conference will feature invited speakers from academia and various government agencies discussing recent research on problems in the theory and practice of small area estimation. The conference will consist of sessions with 3 talks of approximately 30 min. each followed by floor discussion. Speakers from academia tentatively include Arthur Dempster (Harvard), Wayne Fuller (Iowa State), Malay Ghosh (Florida), and John Rao (Carleton Univ., Canada). The conference will be held at the U.S. Bureau of the Census, located just outside of Washington, D.C.

For further information contact:

William Bell
SRD Room 3000-4
Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC 20233
ph: 301-457-4728
FAX: 301-457-2299
e-mail: wbell@census.gov.

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SIGSTAT Meetings

SIGSTAT is the Special Interest Group in Statistics for the Capital PC User Group (CPCUG) and the Washington Operations Research and Management Science Council (WORMSC). It meets on the second Wednesday of each month.

All SIGSTAT meetings are from 12:30 to 1:30 in the Waugh A Room on the 3rd floor in the South Tower of 1800 M St, NW. See the SIGSTAT website at http://www.ers.usda.govsigstat/ for directions and the full schedule. For more information, contact Charlie Hallahan at 202-694-5051 or hallahan@econ.ag.gov.

SIGSTAT: ActivStats - Mar 11

The March meeting of SIGSTAT features a demonstration of ActivStats. ActivStats is a comprehensive multimedia introduction to statistics available with Data Desk. More than 225 Activities show you how statistics is used with real-world videos, illustrate basic concepts with hands-on interactive animations, teach you to use the methods with the award-winning Data Desk statistics program (included on the CD-ROM), and let you discover how random events behave by experimenting for yourself in specially designed computer-based experiments.

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Note From The WSS NEWS Editors

Items for publication in April 1998 WSS NEWS should be submitted no later March 31, 1998. E-mail items to mfeil@helix.nih.gov [Michael Feil] or fmc1@cdc.gov [Fran Chevarley]. FAX items to Michael Feil at (301) 443-4045.

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 Treasurer
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Representatives-at-Large
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Short Courses
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Employment
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WSS NEWS Editors
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