This
conference is the latest in a series of international
gatherings of researchers in the survey field.
International Symposium on Panel Surveys, 1986, Washington, D.C., USA
International Conference on Telephone Survey Methodology, 1987, Charlotte, NC, USA
International Conference on Measurement Errors in Surveys, 1990, Tucson, AZ, USA
International Conference on Establishment Surveys: Survey Methods for Businesses, Farms, and Institutions, 1994, Buffalo, NY, USA
International Conference on Survey Measurement and Process Quality, 1995, Bristol, England, UK
International Conference on Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection, 1996, San Antonio, TX USA
International Conference on Survey Nonresponse, 1999, Portland, OR USA
International Conference on Establishment Surveys-II, 2000, Buffalo, NY USA
Each of these conferences has brought together active researchers in the particular sub-field. All of them led to interchanges of perspectives and comparisons of findings that stimulated further advances in the fields. Collectively, the papers presented in the conferences form a solid base of the survey statistical and methodological literature over the past 10 years. In addition to the excitement and intellectual stimulation the conferences offered, each has produced a product of more lasting and broader value — monographs summarizing the state of the art of the field:
Panel Surveys, Kasprzyk, Duncan, Kalton, and Singh, (Wiley,1989)
Telephone Survey Methodology, Groves, Biemer, Lyberg, Massey, Nicholls, and Waksberg, (Wiley, 1988)
Measurement Errors in Surveys, Biemer, Groves, Lyberg, Mathiowetz, and Sudman, (Wiley, 1991)
Business Survey Methods, Cox,
Binder, Chinnappa, Christianson, College, and Kott, (Wiley, 1995)
Survey Measurement and Process Quality, Lyberg, Biemer, Collins, de Leeuw, Dippo, Schwarz, and Trewin,
(Wiley, 1997)
Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection, Couper, Baker, Bethlehem, Clark, Martin, Nicholls, and O'Reilly, (Wiley, 1998)
(All of these monographs can be obtained
from WWW.WILEY.COM)