SSA Canberra Knibbs Lecture: Perspectives on sample surveys by Prof David Steel

SSA Canberra invites you to attend this year's Knibbs lecture, which will be presented by Prof David Steel (UoW).

Date:  Tuesday 30th November

Time: 5:45pm-7pm Canberra time.

Format: Hybrid face-to-face + online:

Dinner: After the talk we will be holding a dinner at No 10 restaurant and bar, a new restaurant under the Abode Hotel, 3 Grazier Lane, Belconnen ACT 2617 (https://www.number10restaurantandbar.com/).

If you are interested in attending the dinner, please let me know by 12.30pm Monday 29 November by entering your details at this spreadsheet, or contacting warren.muller@csiro.au. Please regard this as a firm commitment, not just an intention.

Talk title: Perspectives on Sample Surveys. 

Abstract: Sample surveys have developed over the last 100 years to be a major way of obtaining useful data about populations and processes in many situations. Theoretical and practical developments have had to respond to changing requirements and uses and been influenced by changes in data collection technology and behavioural changes in society. The lecture will consider some major historical developments and the issues and challenges currently facing the continued usefulness of sample surveys.

Biography: David Steel is Director of the Centre for Sample Survey Methodology at the University of Wollongong. His theoretical research and applied projects focus on survey methodology, sample survey design and analysis methods for complex social, health and economic data. He has undertaken survey design and analysis projects with a number of national and international agencies. He learnt much of the art and science of sample surveys during his time in the methodology and industry divisions of the ABS. He has BSc (Hons) from the University of Adelaide, MSc in Statistics from ANU, and a PhD from the University of Southampton and is an elected member of the ISI.