Re: [CTPP] Elaine's notes from the January conference: Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology

The people from Stats Netherlands said they got the data from the telecommunications provider, it is NOT a sample, for "all" data for a 2 week period, but they did not discuss HOW they negotiated the use of the dataset. From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Krishnan Viswanathan Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 12:21 PM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: Re: [CTPP] Elaine's notes from the January conference: Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Elaine Thanks for sharing this. One question - How did the Stats Netherlands people get access to the data from the cellphone providers? Maybe there are some lessons there about structuring the request and alleviating public fears that can be useful to data collection efforts here. Or did they select their sample and then approached the providers with explicit permission from this sample of the cellphone customers. In general, my impression is that overseas it is a bit easier for agencies to obtain data than here. Krishnan On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:41 PM, <Elaine.Murakami(a)dot.gov> wrote: I thought I would share my notes from this conference. FCSM is held every 2 years, and focuses on the many different surveys conducted by federal agencies. I have rarely attended, but this time, I gave a presentation about the Transportation Secure Data Center http://www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/secure_transportation_data.html , of which FHWA is the major sponsor. My attached notes do not cover my (and Evan Burton's) presentation. It is always interesting to see what people are trying, given that we have so many of the same problems: cell-phone only households, incentives, non-response, quality of response, disclosure avoidance, etc. So, even if this post is not specifically about CTPP, there are some tidbits related to ACS and census research at new university centers. Elaine Murakami FHWA Office of Planning 206-220-4460 (in Seattle) _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)ryoko.chrispy.net http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news -- Krishnan Viswanathan 1101 High Meadow Dr Tallahassee FL 32311