2015 Business Data Collection Methods Workshop Bureau of Labor Statistics Postal Square Building 2 Massachusetts Ave., NE Washington, DC

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1 2015 Business Data Collection Methods Workshop Bureau of Labor Statistics Postal Square Building 2 Massachusetts Ave., NE Program Committee: Gustav Haraldsen, Statistics Norway Ger Snijkers, Statistics Netherlands Diane K.Willimack, U.S. Census Bureau Organizing Committee: Jennifer Edgar, (U.S.) Bureau of Labor Statistics Rebecca Morrison, (U.S.) National Science Foundation Heather Ridolfo, (U.S.) National Agricultural Statistics Service Douglas Williams, Westat The Workshop would not be possible without the generosity of its sponsors. The Program and Organizing Committees wish to express their sincere appreciation for their support.

2 Monday, September 14 8:15 am Registration 8:45 am Welcome Dr. Mike Horrigan Associate Commissioner for Employment and Unemployment Bureau of Labor Statistics Workshop Purpose and Procedures Ger Snijkers, Diane Willimack, and Gustav Haraldsen Participant Introductions 10:00 am Break Session 1: Design and Collection: Aligning Collection Strategies with Response Process and Records, Part I 10:15 am Collecting Financial Data from Large Non-Financial Enterprises Kenneth Arentsen & Ger Snijkers (Statistics Netherlands) 10:45 am Developments in Collection Modes and Contract Strategies in Business Statistics Chandra Adolfsson & Cecilia Hertzman (Statistics Sweden) 11:15 am Revising the Reference Period in the JOLTS Survey Jennifer Edgar & Gina Shkodriani (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Westat) 11:45 am Lunch (on your own) Session 2: Data Collection Design and Strategies 1:00 pm Issues in Surveying Employers About Current and Historical Worker Wages and Benefits Sara Zuckerbraun & Jessica Williams (RTI International) 1:30 pm Systematic Measurement and Monitoring of the Response Burden for Business Surveys and Setting Up a Database for Response Burden Indicators and Standardized Reporting on Response Burden Eva Belak (Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia) 2:00 pm Administration Issues in Specialty Subpopulation Establishment Surveys Carl Ramirez (U.S. Government Accountability Office) Page 2 of 5

3 2:30 pm Break 3:00 pm Group Outing: Walking and Food Tour of the Barracks Row and Eastern Market Neighborhoods You will not have enough time to return to the hotel, so please have your comfortable walking shoes (and your appetite!) with you. Tuesday, September 15, 2015 Session 3: Communication Strategies Chair: Jaki McCarthy 9:00 am Don t Alienate the Base: How to Expand Respondent Reporting on a Recurring Establishment Data Collection While Retaining Participation Kim Aspinwall, Alissa Chambers, Chris Ellis, and Margaret Noonan (RTI International) 9:30 am Communicating a New Design of the Survey of International Trades in Goods (Intrastat) Leanne Houben, R. Gottgens, and Ger Snijkers (Statistics Netherlands) 10:00 am Respondent Outreach in an All-Electronic Environment Charles F. Brady 10:30 am Break Session 4: Featured Speaker 10:45 am Designing Online Instruments for Businesses: Toward a Research Agenda Mick Couper (University of Michigan) 11:45 am Lunch (on your own) Session 5: Web Surveys: Development, Testing, and Design 1:00 pm Web-Based Business Surveys at Statistics Canada: Lessons Learned from Qualitative Testing Kate Reicker (Statistics Canada) 1:30 pm Electronic Questionnaire Collection for Monthly Business Surveys Réjean Doiron (Statistics Canada) 2:00 pm The Challenges of Designing New Data Collections for an All-Web Survey Jennifer Beck Page 3 of 5

4 2:30 pm Break 2:45 pm Survey Usability Testing and Data Quality -- THEY Like it More, But Do We? Jaki McCarthy & Kathy Ott (U.S. National Agricultural Statistics Service) 3:15 pm All in One: Lessons Learned from Designing a Common Web Questionnaire for the Structural Business Statistics Gustav Haraldsen and Coen Hendriks (Statistics Norway) Roundtable Discussion 3:45 pm The Next Generation of Electronic Data Collection Instruments 5:00 pm Adjourn 6:00 pm Workshop Dinner Location: Jaleo, th St. NW, (Metro: Gallery Place, exit for 7 th and F Streets) Wednesday, September 16, 2015 Session 6: Questionnaire Design: Concepts, Questions, and Measurement Error 8:30 am Design and Implementation of the third European Company Survey Gijs van Houten (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions) 9:00 am Using Graphics to Convey Complex Survey Concepts Rebecca L. Morrison & Heidi St.Onge (U.S. National Science Foundation & U.S. Census Bureau) 9:30 am Innovation Metrics Audrey Kindlon (U.S. National Science Foundation) 10:00 am Designing and Testing Tools to Assess Measurement Error Robin Kaplan and Polly Phipps (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) 10:30 am Break Page 4 of 5

5 Session 7: CBECS: A Case Study in Multi-Faceted Data Collection Research Chair: Chris Ellis 10:45 am Using CARI to Evaluate the Data Collection Method and Quality of Square Footage Data in the 2012 CBECS Joelle D. Michaels (U.S. Energy Information Administration) 11:15 am Applying Multi-Mode and Multi-Source Data Collection in the 2012 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) Justin Kamens (Westat) 11:45 am Introducing a Response Propensity Model into Data Collection on a Building Energy Survey Carolyn Hronis and Katie Lewis (U.S. Energy Information Administration) 12:15 pm Lunch (on your own) Session 8: Survey Planning & Management 1:30 pm Using Project Management to Plan Data Collection for the Economic Census Jacqueline Eanes Roundtable Discussion 2:00 pm Survey Management Practices and Prospects for Improvements 3:15 pm Break Wrap-Up 3:30 pm Opportunities for ICES-V (June 20-23, 2016, Geneva, Switzerland) Workshop evaluation 4:30 pm Adjourn Page 5 of 5