Workshop "Research uses of high-precision census samples"

Barcelona, 9th-10th July 2008

Organized by Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics in Collaboration with the Minnesota Population Center.

Workshop Goals

• promote IECM database
• promote good use of anonymized, integrated census microdata samples
• prepare ground work for next 5 year proposal to National Institute of Ageing
• facilite close relations with statistical agency partners

Agenda and Presentations

Wednesday, July 9 - European Population Conference, 2008 July 9-11, Barcelona, Spain

17:00 - 19:00h Arrival, greeting of participants, payment of flight expenses and perdiems. (Hotel Catalonia-Duques de Bergara)

19:00h End of the working day. (Participants are invited to dinner at various restaurants throughout the city)

19:30h Guided walk from hotel to Catalunya square, take green line (Canyelles direction) to Mundet metro station, and then 2 minutes walk form subway to Hotel Alimara

20:00 - 20:30h Official EPC Opening Ceremony. (Hotel Alimara)

20:30h Welcome cocktail

21:30 - 22:00h Return to the hotel by subway

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Thursday, July 10

07:30 - 08:30h Continental Breakfast (Hotel Catalonia-Duques de Bergara). Take the metro to Hotel Alimara

09:00 - 09:20h Welcome (Hotel Alimara) - Favéncia Seminar Room -

• Anna Cabré (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics).
• Robert McCaa (University of Minnesota): Welcome IPUMS Barcelona.

09:20 - 11:00h Session 1: Country reports, datasets to be integrated. Robert McCaa, presiding.

• Markus Zwich (German Federal Statistical Office): Germany.
• Joraslav Kraus (Czech Statistical Office): Czech Republic.
• Marcel Heiniger (Swiss Federal Statistical office): Switzerland.
• Victor Dinculescu (Romania National Institute of Statistics): Romania.

11:00 - 11:30h Coffe break

11:30 - 13:00h Session 2: New census microdata initiatives. Robert McCaa, presiding.

• Matt Sobek (University of Minnesota): Dynamic metadata system.
• Albert Esteve (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics): Scientific research tabulator.
• Patrick Festy (Institut National d'Études Démographiques): The CENSUS project.
• Steven Ruggles (University of Minnesota): Secure data laboratory.

13:00 - 14:30h Buffet lunch in seminar room (Hotel Alimara)

14:30 - 16:00h Session 3 (in EPC-2008) Demographic Research Applications Based on Census Microdata (Hotel Alimara) - Heures Seminar Room -. Albert Esteve, presiding.

• Wolfgang Lutz (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)): Fertility, Education and Demographic Trends in Europe: New insights from census microdata.
• Seraphim Alvanides (University of Newcastle): Using census micro data to explore the "rural-urban continuum" in Greece 1971-2001.
• Raluca Prelipceanu; Boris Najman (Université de Paris I, Sorbonne): Labour Mobility and Institutional Quality: the Case of Romania.
• Robert McCaa; Antonio Lopez Gay (University of Minnesota): Gender and work in European Population Censuses: Strategies to capture additional female activity..
• Agenese Vitali (Università Bocconi): The impact of regional factors on leaving home in the context of the "latest-late" transition to adulthood: a multilevel approach.

16:00 - 16:30h Break

16:30 - 18:30h Session 4: Evaluating of censuses and samples in the IECM database (Hotel Alimara) - Favéncia Seminar Room -. Jean Paul Sardon (Institut National d'Études Démographiques), presiding.

• Fernando Casimiro (Instituto Nacioal de Estatística): Portugal.
• Gabor Rozsa (Independent census expert): Hungary.
• Vyron Kotzamanis (LDSA. University of Thessaly): Greece.
• Albert Esteve (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics): Spain.
• Robert McCaa (University of Minnesota): Next steps.

20:30h Dinner at Reial Club Marítim Barcelona (Moll d'Espanya)

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Funded by

European Community Sixth Framework Program, Coordinating the Integration of the European Census Microdata, CIECM, Grant No. 515829
National Institutes of Health, IPUMS-Europe, Grant HD047283
National Science Foundation, IPUMS-International, Grant SB9908380