The Survey Statistician
Focus and Scope: The Survey Statistician is the newsletter of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS). It includes general information about the activities of the Association (meetings, seminars, etc.) and about meetings arranged by other organizations around the world that are likely to be of interest to its members. It contains various articles on survey methods and related topics, as well as book and software reviews. The newsletter welcomes overviews of survey topics, original research and reports on projects and workshops. All submitted manuscripts are reviewed by the Editors.
The aim of the newsletter: To provide a platform for survey statisticians for exchange of news, information, experience, new and emerging methods and list the latest relevant publications in other journals.
Publication frequency: Two issues per year.
Language: The newsletter accepts articles in English.
Open Access Policy. Our periodical is an open access newsletter. All content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission of the publisher or the author. The journal does not charge fees for article processing or submission. Articles published in the journal are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license.
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Letter from the Editors, Letter from the President, Report from the Scientific Secretary
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Letter from the Editors, Letter from the President, Report from the Scientific Secretary
Debate: Are Non-probability Samples the Future of Surveys? By Changbao Wu and Li-Chun Zhang
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Letter from the Editors, Letter from the President, Report from the Scientific Secretary
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Ask the Experts: A Review of Bootstrap Methods for Survey Sampling, by Guillaume Chauvet
New and Emerging Methods: Multiple Frame Methods for Combining Data Sources, by Sharon L. Lohr
Early Career Survey Statistician: Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Survey Data, by Oleksii Volkov
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Early Scandinavian Contributions to Survey Sampling, by Thomas Laitila
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The First Fifty Years of the IASS, Some Thoughts, by Carl-Erik Särndal
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Letter from the Editor, Letter from the President, Report from the Scientific Secretary
The 50th Anniversary of IASS. Collection of Articles.
Some Memorable Recollections of IASS First Meeting, by J. N. K. Rao
Survey Sampling During the Last 50 Years, by Ton de Waal and Sander Scholtus
Is it Time for Young Survey Statisticians to Shine in the Society? by Mahmoud Torabi
The History and Impact of the Survey Methodology Journal, by Jean-François Beaumont
Survey Sampling History at Iowa State University, by Jae Kwang Kim
Sample Surveys in Post-Apartheid South Africa, by Jairo Arrow
Development of Sample Surveys in Australia and New Zealand over the Last 50 Years, by Dennis Trewin
The Contributions of Italian Statisticians to the Development of Survey Statistics, by Luigi Biggeri
The IASS – 50 Years of Activity, by Danny Pfeffermann
Software Review: The Survey Package for R, 15 Years on, by Thomas Lumley
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Ask the Expert: How to Measure Disclosure Risk in Microdata? By Natalie Shlomo
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Country Reports: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, United States
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Machine Learning from the Perspective of Official Statistics by Marco J. H. Puts and Piet J. H. Daas
Standardisation and Statistics by Walter J. Radermacher
Book Review of Changbao Wu and Mary E. Thompson (2020) Sampling Theory and Practice by Jae-Kwang Kim
Country Report: Argentina, Canada, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, United States
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Graph sampling: An introduction, by Li-Chun Zhang (reviewed paper)
Country Reports: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Fiji, and New Zealand
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Sevgui Erman. Why machine learning and what is its role in the production of official statistics?
Vera Toepoel, Peter Lugtig, and Barry Schouten. Active and passive measurement in mobile surveys
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The Survey Statistician, Issue No.84
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements: Lars Lyberg obituary
- News and Announcements: In memory: Lars Lyberg
- News and Announcements: A tribute to Seppo S. Laaksonen
- Ask the Experts: Recent developments with respect to big data, by Piet Daas, and Marco Puts (reviewed paper)
- Ask the Experts: Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology, by Peter Lynn
- New and Emerging Methods: Standardisation and Statistics, by Walter J.Radermacher (reviewed paper)
- Book and Software Review: Changbao Wu, and Mary E. Thompson (2020) Sampling Theory and Practice, Springer. Review by Jae-Kwang Kim
- Country Reports: Argentina, Canada, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, United States
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members!
- IASS Executive Committee Members
- Institutional Members
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.83
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements: ISI World Statistics Congress 2021 goes VIRTUAL!
- News and Announcements: ISI World Statistics Congress 2023: OTTAWA is chosen!
- News and Announcements: Announcement: New editor of Survey Methodology
- News and Announcements: Analysis of survey data using R short course
- News and Announcements: A tribute to Ken Brewer
- Ask the Experts: Pitfalls of making inferences from nonprobability samples: Can data integration through probability samples provide remedies?
- Ask the Experts: Official Statistics at the Crossroads: Data Quality and Access in an Era of Heightened Privacy Risk
- New and Emerging Methods: Graph sampling: An introduction
- Country Reports: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Fiji, and New Zealand
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members!
- IASS Executive Committee Members
- Institutional Members
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.82
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements: Advances in Statistical Methodology: A symposium to celebrate the career of Professor Ray Chambers
- News and Announcements: Luigi Biggeri’s 80th birthday
- News and Announcements: Report on the IASS–Sponsored Event: Conference for Population Surveys, Data Users and Producers, 5-6 February 2020, Nigeria, Africa
- News and Announcements: The Important Role of Surveys during the COVID19 Pandemic
- News and Announcements: Corona Virus and National Statistical Offices
- Ask the Experts: Why machine learning and what is its role in the production of official statistics?
- Ask the Experts: Active and passive measurement in mobile surveys
- New and Emerging Methods: Exploring development in population size estimation
- Book and Software Review: Seppo Laaksonen (2018) Survey Methodology and Missing Data, Springer
- Country Reports: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, United States
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members!
- IASS Executive Committee Members
- Institutional Members
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.81
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: Wider applications for dual and multiple system estimation
- New and Emerging Methods: New Data Sources for Official Statistics – A Game Changer for Survey Statisticians?
- New and Emerging Methods: Quality of Multisource Statistics – the KOMUSO Project
- Book and Software Review: A Checklist for Assessing the Analysis Documentation for Public-Use Complex Sample Survey Data Sets
- Country Reports: Argentina, Australia, belarus, Canada, Latvia, New Zealand, Sweden, United States
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members
- IASS Executive Committee Members
- Institutional Members
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.80
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: Can a Survey Sample of 6000 Records Produce More Accurate Estimates than an Administrative Data Base of 100 Million? (The Answer May Surprise You)
- New and Emerging Methods: Quantile-type methods for small area estimation
- Book and Software Review: The Unit Problem and Other Current Topics in Business Survey Methodology (2018)
- Country Reports: Algeria, Argentina, Canada, Estonia, hungary, India, Nepal, New Zealand, Ukraine
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members
- IASS Executive Committee Members
- Institutional Members
- Change of Address Form
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.79
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: What are alternative data sources, and how to use them?
- New and Emerging Methods: Calibration methods for small domain estimation
- Book and Software Review: Statistical Analysis with Missing Data / Survey Weights: A Step-by-step Guide to Calculation
- Country Reports: Argentina, Canada, Fiji, Latvia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members
- IASS Executive Committee Members
- Institutional Members
- Change of Address Form
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.78
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: What are Interviewer Effects on Measurement Error?
- New and Emerging Methods: Empirical likelihood approaches in survey sampling
- Book and Software Review: An overview of "Cross-cultural Survey Guidelines"
- Country Reports: Argentina, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, Poland
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members
- IASS Executive Committee Members
- Institutional Members
- Change of Address Form
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.77
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: How do Establishment Surveys Differ from Household Surveys?
- New and Emerging Methods: On some reweighting schemes for nonignorable unit nonresponse
- Book and Software Review: Review of Adaptive Survey Design
- Country Reports: Argentina, Australia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members
- IASS Officers and Council Members
- Institutional Members
- Change of Address Form
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.76
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: What does the term Data Linkage Mean?
- New and Emerging Methods: Statistical Methods for Combining Multiple Sources of Administrative and Survey Data
- Book and Software Review: A shiny Application for Statistical Disclosure Control: sdcApp Opening the Power of sdcMicro to non-R Users
- Book and Software Review: Monitoring Statistical Indicators Using R/Shiny: A Case Study on Public Transport Safety in Switzerland
- Country Reports: Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, New Zealand
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members
- IASS Officers and Council Members
- Institutional Members
- Change of Address Form
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.75
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: How can we continue to protect the confidentiality of data subjects under open access initiatives?
- New and Emerging Methods: Handbook on Master Sampling Frames for Agricultural Statistics: Frame Development, Sample Design, and Estimation
- Book and Software Review: Analysis of Poverty Data by Small Area Estimation Monica Pratesi (Editor)
- Country Reports: Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Ukraine
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members
- IASS Officers and Council Members
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The Survey Statistician, Issue No.74
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: Why the resurgence in interest in address-based sampling? By Rachel Harter
- New and Emerging Methods: Indirect Sampling for Hard-to-Reach Populations by Pierre Lavallée
- Country Reports: Algeria, Argentina, Canada, Latvia, New Zealand
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members
- IASS Officers and Council Members
- Institutional Members
- Change of Address Form
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.73
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: Why do official surveys sometimes tell a different story from alternative sources? Craig McLaren and Kate Davies, ONS, United Kingdom
- New and Emerging Methods: A flexible tool for defining optimal sampling designs Piero Demetrio Falsori and Paolo Righi, ISTAT, Italy
- Book and Software Review: Methodological Developments in Data Linkage, eds. Katie Harron, Harvey Goldstein and Chris Dibben, Reviewed by Natalie Shlomo, University of Manchester
- Country Reports: Australia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada, Israel, Latvia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Palestine
- Contributions from IASS Members: Some thoughts on seasonal adjustment variances. Zdenek Patak, Statistics Canada
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The Survey Statistician, Issue No.72
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: What are the threats to the probability survey paradigm and what directions should statistical agencies take to enhance the utility and cost-effectiveness of surveys? by Constance F. Citro
- New and Emerging Methods: Emerging Technologies: The Rise of Mobile Devices: From Smartphones to Smart Surveys, by Trent D. Buskirk
- Book and Software Review: A Statistical Framework for Analysing Big Data, by Dr Siu-Ming Tam
- Country Reports: Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Fiji, Israel, New Zealand, Palestine
- Contributions from IASS Members: Sampling Design Data File, by Seppo Laaksonen
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
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- Welcome New Members
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The Survey Statistician, Issue No.71
In this issue- Letter from the Editors
- Letter from the President
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: How Should I Run a Regression Based on a Complex Survey that Has Missing Item Values? by Phillip S. Kott
- New and Emerging Methods: Paradata – Big Data of Survey Research, by Frauke Kreuter
- Book and Software Review: Register-based Statistics: Statistical Methods for Administrative Data, 2nd Edition (Chichester:Wiley); reviewed by Dan Hedlin, Stockholm University
- Country Reports: Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, India, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, united Kingdom
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
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- Welcome New Members
- IASS Officers and Council Members
- Institutional Members
- Change of Address Form
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.70
In this issue- Letter from the President
- Letter from the Editors
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: What are the conditions under which various survey designs that do not use probability samples might still be useful for making inferences to a larger population? by J. Michael Brick
- New and Emerging Methods: Data Integration, by Li-Chun Zhang
- Book and Software Review: Statistical Methods for Handling Incomplete Data, by J.K. Kim and J. Shao. ; reviewed by David Haziza
- Country Reports: Australia, Canada, India, Fiji, Poland, Palestine, Switzerland
- Upcoming Conferences
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members
- IASS Officers and Council Members
- Institutional Members
- Change of Address Form
The Survey Statistician, Issue No.69
In this issue- Letter from the President
- Letter from the Editors
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: When should a multiple frame survey be used? by Sharon L. Lohr
- New and Emerging Methods: Big Data as a Source of Statistical Information, by Piet J.H. Daas and Marco J.H. Puts
- Book and Software Review: Nonresponse in Social Science Surveys: A Research Agenda, by R. Tourangeau and T. J. Plewes; reviewed by Peter Lynn
- Country Reports: Argentina, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
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- Welcome New Members
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The Survey Statistician, Issue N. 68
In this issue- Letter from the President
- Letter from the Editors
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: How can survey estimates of small areas be improved by leveraging social-media data? by Noel Cressie, Scott H. Holan, and Christopher K. Wikle
- New and Emerging Methods: Non-respondent surveys: pertinence and feasibility by Dr. Michèle Ernst Stähli and Prof. Dominique Joye
- Book and Software Review: Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples by Richard Valliant, Jill A. Dever, Frauke Kreuter (2013) Reviewed by Greg Griffiths
- Country Reports: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Spain, UK, USA
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members
- IASS Officers and Council Members
- Institutional Members
- Change of Address Form
The Survey Statistician, Issue N. 67
In This Issue- Letter from the President
- Letter from the Editors
- Report from the Scientific Secretary
- Contact Information for IASS Country Representatives
- News and Announcements
- Ask the Experts: Is it acceptable not to cover the smallest businesses in a business survey? How should such a cutoff be chosen? by Marco Bee, Roberto Benedetti, Giuseppe Espa, Federica Piersimoni
- New and Emerging Methods: The smartphone in survey research: experiments for time use data by Henk Fernee and Annette C. Scherpenzeel
- Book and Software Review: Statistical Disclosure Control by Anco Hundepool, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Luisa Franconi, Sarah Giessing, Eric Schulte Nordholt, Keith Spicer, Peter-Paul de Wolf Book Review by Natalie Shlomo
- Country Reports: Argentina, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, India, Malaysia, Poland
- In Memorandum
- Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
- In Other Journals
- Welcome New Members
- IASS Officers and Council Members
- Institutional Members
- Change of Address Form
The Survey Statistician, Issue N. 66
In This Issue 3 Letter from the President 5 Letter from the Editors 7 In Memorandum 9 Report from the Scientific Secretary 11 Contact Information for IASS Country Representatives 13 News and Announcements 16 Ask the Experts: How should one find out the contributions to the design effect (variance) made by each of the design components (stratification, clustering, weighting) of a complex sample design? By Hyunshik Lee 21 New and Emerging Methods: Split Questionnaire Designs by James Chipperfield and David Steel 26 Book and Software Review: Official Statistics and Survey Methodology meets R: An Overview of Corresponding Packages by Matthias Templ and Valentin Todorov 35 Country Reports Algeria Australia Brazil Canada India New Zealand Philippines Poland United Kingdom United States of America 46 Upcoming Conferences and Workshops 58 In Other Journals 71 Welcome New Members 72 IASS Officers and Council Members 73 Institutional Members 74 Change of Address FormThe Survey Statistician Issue No. 65
In This Issue
3 Letter from the President 5 Letter from the Editors 7 Report from the Scientific Secretary 9 Contact Information for IASS Country Representatives 11 News and Announcements 14 Ask the Experts: Feedback of survey information for updating of sampling frames 17 Country Reports- Canada
- France
- India
- New Zealand
- Poland
- United States of America
The Survey Statistician Issue No. 64, July 2011
1 Letter from the President 3 Letter from the Editors 5 Contact Information for IASS Country Representatives 7 IASS Election Results 8 Ask the Experts: How should Samples be Designed for Difficult to Reach Populations? 12 Country Reports- - Australia - Canada - France - India - Malaysia - New Zealand - Philippines - United Kingdom
The Survey Statistician Issue No. 63, January 2011
In This Issue 1 Letter from the President 3 Letter from the Editors 6 Report from the Scientific Secretary 8 Report from the 2011 IASS Election Nominations Committee 10 Ask the Experts: Can Web Surveys Provide an Adequate Alternative to Phone and Face-to-Face Surveys? 15 Country Reports - Australia - Canada - Italy - Lithuania - Pacific Islands 22 New and Emerging Methods: Emerging Methodology of Web Surveys 25 Announcements 35 Book and Software Review: Call for volunteers 36 In Other Journals 49 New Members 50 IASS Officers and Council Members 51 Institutional Members 52 Change of Address ForThe Survey Statistician Issue No. 62
In this issue 1 Letter from the President 3 Letter from the Editors 4 Report from the Scientific Secretary 9 Ask the Experts: Combining Survey Results 15 Country Reports - Australia - Brazil - Canada - Germany - Latvia - Malaysia - New Zealand - Philippines - Turkey 26 New and Emerging Methods: Small Area Estimation – Danny Pfeffermann 32 Announcements 37 Book and Software Review: Call for volunteers 38 In Other Journals 44 New Members 45 IASS Officers and Council Members 46 Institutional Members 47 Change of Address FormThe Survey Statistician Issue No. 61
In This Issue 4 Letter from the President 6 IASS Report of Activities 2007 – 2009 11 Country Reports - Australia - Canada - New Zealand - Poland - Spain - Ukraine 18 Announcements 20 IASS Web Site 21 In Other Journals - Journal of Official Statistics - Statistics in Transition – new series - Survey Research Methods - Survey Methodology 25 IASS Officers and Council Members Change of Address Form Institutional MembersThe Survey Statistician, Issue No. 59
In This Issue 4 Letter from the President 5 IASS Program for the 57th ISI Session, Durban 2009 6 2009 IASS Election Nominations 15 Country Reports - Australia - Brazil - Canada - France - Germany - New Zealand - Poland - United States 24 Joint Statistical Meetings 2009 25 New members 26 Announcements 29 IASS Web Site 30 In Other Journals - Journal of Official Statistics - Statistics in Transition – new series 36 IASS Officers and Council Members - Change of Address Form - Institutional MembersThe Survey Statistician, Issue No. 58
In This Issue No. 58, July 2008 1 Letter from the President 2 IASS Program for the 57 th ISI Session, Durban 2009 3 Update of IASS Short Course Program 4 IASS Local Representatives 6 Country Reports - Algeria - Canada - Germany - New Zealand - Poland - Vietnam 11 Article - Simple Random Sampling – for benchmarkning but not for use? 14 Announcements - CochranHansen Prize 2009 - Measurement errors in surveys - Survey sampling in social and economic research 16 IASS Web Site 17 In Other Journals - Survey Methodology - Journal of Official Statistics - Statistics in Transition – new series - Survey Research Methods 21 IASS Officers and Council Members - Change of Address Form - Institutional MembersThe Survey Statistician, Issue No. 57
In This Issue No. 57, January 2008 1 Letter from the President 3 Report of the IASS Scientific Secretary 5 IASS Election Results 5 Report from the 2009 Program Committee 7 IASS President’s Report 11 Country Reports 11 Australia 12 Brazil 13 Canada 14 Malaysia 15 Philippines 16 Poland 16 Spain 18 United Kingdom 18 United States 20 Software Review 26 Analysis of complex samples in R 26 Articles 26 Congratulations, Gunnar Kulldorff 27 Félix Rosenfeld 30 New Members 33 Announcements 33 ISBIS-2008 33 European Conference on Quality in Official Statistics 34 Summer Institute in Survey Research, University of Michigan 34 Cochran-Hansen Prize 2009 35 IASS Web Site 36 In Other Journals 36 Journal of Official Statistics 38 Statistics in Transition — n s 39 AStA — Advances in Statistical Analysis 42 IASS Officers and Council Members Change of Address Form Institutional MembersThe Survey Statistician, Issue No. 56
In This Issue Letter from the President IASS Administrative Meetings during the ISI Lisbon Session IASS Program for the 57th ISI Session, Durban 2009 IASS Election Results Country Reports- Australia
- Canada
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- Poland
- Spain
- Turkey
- United Kingdom