Joint Statistical Meetings

"Statistics: A Key to Innovation in a Data-Centric World"

July 31- August 5, 2010—Vancouver Convention Centre—Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Date/Time

Sunday, August 1

2:00-3:50 p.m.

Session: Applications in Health Policy: Substance Abuse, Nutrition, and Employment

"Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities for Women that Provide Child Care: 2008 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services"

Monday, August 2

12:30-1:50 p.m.

Session: Social Statistics Section PM Roundtable Discussion

Nancy Clusen, Organizer

"Measurement Issues and the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Population"

2:00-3:50 p.m.

Session: Informing Education Policy Through Statistical Measurement

"Do Comparison Group Methods Replicate Experimental Impact Estimates in an Education Setting? A Charter School Evaluation Example"

Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Kenneth Fortson, Philip Gleason, and Emma Ernst

Session: Assessing and Adjusting for Non-Response via Imputation, Matching, or Modeling

"Analyzing Nonresponse Bias Among Kindergarten Teachers in the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey"

Tuesday, August 3

8:30-10:20 a.m.

Session: Longitudinal Perspectives from SIPP Panel Data

Daniel Kasprzyk, Discussant

10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.

Session: What Can ACS Tell Policymakers? Assessing Data on Education, Income, and Health Insurance

"Dollar for Dollar: Rating the Income Data from the American Community Survey"

John Czajka

12:30-1:50 p.m.

Session: Social Statistics Section PM Roundtable Discussion

Nancy Clusen, Organizer

Wednesday, August 4

7:00-8:15 a.m.

Session: Section on Government Statistics AM Roundtable Discussion

"Nonresponse Adjustment Using a Response Propensity Model"

10:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.

Session: Statistical Issues in Population Studies

Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Chair

2:00-3:50 p.m.

Session: Implementing the Measuring American Poverty Act in States and Local Areas

"Variance Estimation Protocols for the NAS Poverty Measure: The New York City Poverty Measure Experience"

Frank Potter, Eric Grau, John Czajka, and others