Scientific Committee
The Scientific Committee, chaired by Vesa Kuusela, Statistics Finland, reviews abstract submissions for all papers, posters, and technical presentations and subsequently prepares the conference program.
Members of the committee include:
Vesa Kuusela (chair), Statistics Finland
Karen Bagwell US, Bureau of the Census
Sylvain Daubrée, INSEE
Hilde Degerdal, Statistics Norway
Jo Edwards, ONS
Lon Hofman, Statistics Netherlands, Blaise Team
Rebecca Lui, Statistics Canada
Jim O’Reilly, Westat Inc.
Mark Pierzchala, Mathematica Policy Research Inc.
Bill Connett/Gina-Qian Cheung, University of Michigan
Tony Award
The second "Tony Award" will be presented for the best paper and presentation of the 12th IBUC. At the end of the conference, the Scientific Committee will meet to select the best paper and presentation. The topic and style of written paper and the oral presentation will have equal weights.
In 11th IBUC the first Tony Award was given to Colin Setchfield (Office for National Statistics, UK) for his presentation of a paper titled Coping with people who just won’t stay put: The Use of Blaise in Longitudinal Panel Surveys. Runner-up was Rhonda Ash (University of Michigan, US) for the presentation of paper titled Case Scenario Library for Testing Large Blaise Applications which she prepared together with Jason Ostergren.
The "Tony Award" was initially unveiled at the 10th IBUC in 2006. The award is named after Tony Manners, formerly of the Office for National Statistics in the United Kingdom. Tony was one of the founders and first chairman of the International Blaise Users Group (IBUG). He was elected as chairman at the end of the very first International Blaise Users Conference in 1992 and continued in the role through the 7th IBUC which was held in Washington, D.C. in 2001.
Papers and abstracts
Session 1: Uses of Blaise
Converting to Blaise 4.8 for CATI and CAWI Surveys
Leonard Hart and Scott Reid, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. |
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Using Blaise 4.8 for Census Coverage Measurement
Roberto V. Picha, U.S. Census Bureau, USA |
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Using the Blaise Component Pack for All Stages of Data Collection
Lilia Filippenko, Roger Osborn, Vorapranee (Mai) Wickelgren, & Venkat Yetukuri, RTI International, USA |
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BLAISE in Macedonia-Census of agriculture 2007
Liljana Taseva, Mira Deleva, State Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia |
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Session 2: CAPI system developments
Quality assurance through Computer Audio- Recorded Interviewing (CARI)
Chris Seymour, Statistics New Zealand | | |
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Case Management System Based on Wireless Telecommunications
Vesa Kuusela, Toni Räikkönen and Kai Vikki, Statistics Finland |
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Development of Survey and Case Management facilities for organisations with minimal survey infrastructure
Fred Wensing, Softscape Solutions, Australia |
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CAPI system at Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia
Karlis Zeila, Norberts Talers, Pavel Onufrijevs, Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia |
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Session 3: Data Quality
Minimizing the errors in the questionnaire and monitoring the survey process
Kimin Kim, Korea Labor Institute |
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Macro-selection and micro-editing: a prototype
Wim Hacking, Statistics Netherlands |
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The Three-Legged Stool Is Now a Four-Legged Chair: Specification Guidelines for Blaise Survey Instruments
James R. Hagerman, Jody L. Dougherty, and Sue Ellen Hansen, The University of Michigan | | Abstract |
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Session 4: Blaise in Organizations
The Effects of Relocation on Blaise Support in O.N.S.
Lucy Fletcher, Office for National Statistics |
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Evaluating the use of questions and responses in a large national dietary data collection instrument
Lois Steinfeldt, Jaswinder Anand, Ellen Anderson, and John Clemens, Agricultural Research Service, USA |
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Different Methods of Working with Blaise® in the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
Shifra Har and Evgenia Luskin, Israel Central Bureau of Statistics |
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BlaiseIS at Statistics Netherlands
Gerrit de Bolster, Statistiscs Netherlands |
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Session 7: Event history applications
The Use of Metadata in the Design of a Customizable .NET Event History Calendar
Daniel Moshinsky, Mecene Desormice, Seth Benson-Flannery; U.S. Census Bureau |
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Development and Programming of an Employment Event History Calendar in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
April Beaulé, Mary Dascola and Youhong Liu, The University of Michigan |
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Time Use Diary Data Capture System built in Blaise and Maniplus
Fred Wensing, Softscape Solutions, Australia |
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Capturing and UtiIizing Interview Timings
Jim O'Reilly, Westat |
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Session 8: Authoring in Blaise
A Systematic Approach to Debugging in the Blaise Environment: An Author's Perspective
Peter Sparks, The University of Michigan |
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Unduplication of Listing Data
Michael K. Mangiapane, U.S. Census Bureau |
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An End-to-End Solution for Using Unicode with Blaise to Support Any Language
Alerk Amin (CentERdata, The Netherlands), Richard Boreham (National Center for Social Research, England), Maurice Martens (CentERdata, The Netherlands), Colin Miceli (National Center for Social Research, England) |
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Managing Translations for Blaise Questionnaires
Maurice Martens, Alerk Amin & Corrie Vis (CentERdata, The Netherlands) |
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Session 9: Applications and supporting tools
Moving to a Centralized Database for Surveys in Blaise at the National Agricultural Statistics Service
Roger Schou, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USA |
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Blaise Editing Rules + Relational Data Storage = Best of Both Worlds?
Richard Frey and Mike Rhoads, Westat |
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Michigan Questionnaire Documentation System, Version 3 (MQDS-V3)
Karl Dinkelmann, Nicole Kirgis, Gina-Qian Cheung, University of Michigan |
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Tracking And Rotation – The Next Steps
Jo Edwards, Office for National Statistics |
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Poster session
Some Techniques In Blaise Data Editing
Rob Groeneveld, Statistics Netherlands |
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Presenting Answers in Random Order; A generic approach for presenting enumeration answers in random order in the Blaise Data Entry Program.
Marien Lina, Division of Business Statistics, Statistics Netherlands |
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Mixed Mode Sample Management System development process
Gina-Qian Cheung, The University of Michigan
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