Call for Papers
Deadline: May 16, 2022

2022 FCSM Research & Policy Conference

October 25–27, 2022
Washington Convention Center*, Washington D.C.

Great Expectations: New Directions and Innovations
for Sustainable Federal Statistics

The 2022 FCSM Research and Policy Conference provides a forum for experts and practitioners from around the world to discuss and exchange current methodological knowledge and policy insights about topics of current and critical importance to federal agencies.

We seek abstracts that address advances in credible and accurate survey and statistical methodologies from both research and policy perspectives.  Submissions may address but are not limited to the following topics of importance to the Federal Statistical System:

• Applied statistics (econometrics, geospatial statistics, regression analysis, biometrics)
• Data collection (field operations, new and emerging data collection technologies (e.g., mobile smartphones), multi- or mixed- modes, use of incentives, responsive/adaptive designs, respondent recruitment)
• Data dissemination (statistical literacy, communication of results, agency standards, data ethics, data visualization and graphics)
• Data linkage (administrative data, electronic health records, alternative data sources, big data, social media or crowd-sourced data)
• Data processing (editing, imputation, variance estimation, data management and storage)
• Data quality (nonsampling error, fitness-for-use, nonresponse bias, measurement issues, response quality, respondent burden, proxy reporting)
• Establishment surveys (economic measurement, business and economic statistics)
• Estimation and inference (Bayesian methods, small area estimation)
  
• Privacy and disclosure control (data access, differential privacy, synthetic data)
• Questionnaire design (survey redesign, qualitative research, cognitive interviewing, usability testing)
• Statistical computing (machine learning, webscraping and APIs, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, Monte-Carlo methods, data science)
• Survey sampling and weighting (frame development, coverage error, probability and nonprobability sampling, hard-to-reach populations, multiple frames, calibration, post-stratification)

Policy Submissions: Abstracts should discuss a statistical policy topic and discuss the implications or impacts observed thus far and may raise questions or issues without having a definitive answer.

Research Submissions: Abstracts should present research studies and findings related to the topics listed above. Submissions should not simply describe a data collection program or be highly specialized.

Abstract Submission Form

Organized Session Submissions: An organized session submission should include 3 or 4 papers, a discussant and a chair. Organized sessions with both research and policy presentations will be given priority when the program is assembled.

Organized Session Submission Form

Questions:

• For conference information, or to be included on the mailing list, contact Paul Schroeder at COPAFS at fcsm@copafs.org
• For questions on abstract submissions or the program, contact the Program Chair, Jessica Graber at qcs1@cdc.gov

*Note: If unsafe to congregate due to COVID-19 the conference may be switched from in-per