AQMeN - Applied Quantitative Methods Network

The Administrative Data Liaison Service are holding a one day conference to be held in London on Monday the 11th July 2100.  This ESRC funded event will highlight the power of administrative data and the strengths and limitations of such data for research purposes. 

The conference will cover both innovative research that has used administrative data, (with examples from the fields of education, deprovation and welfare) and innovative methods for using administrative data (including Bayesian appraoches to combining data, capture-recapture methods and immigration estimation).

The conference will also explore new mechanisms for accessing administrative data (such as HRMC's new data laboratory and the Secure Data Service) and discuss the future for administrative data in research, with views from the government and academia.

Confirmed speakers and talks:

Innovative research using administrative data

• Mike Brewer (Professor of Economics, University of Essex),
  Starting school and leaving welfare: the impact of public education on lone parents' welfare receipt
• David McLennan (University of Oxford)
  Understanding the dynamics and characteristics of deprived neighbourhoods
• Simon Burgess (Professor of Economics, University of Bristol),
  What parents want: an analysis of school preferences in England

Innovative methods using administrative data

• Nicky Best (Professor of Statistics and Epidemiology, Imperial College),
  From health to politics: case studies in combining survey and administrative data to reduce biases in observational studies
• Ian McGregor (Head of Methodology Improvements, Office for National Statistics)
  How ONS has used administrative data sources to produce new local authority immigration estimates
• Dr Ruth King (University of St Andrews)
  (Bayesian) Capture-recapture techniques for estmiating hidden population sizes using administrative data lists

New mechanisms for accessing administrative data

• Karen Dennison (Secure Data Service)
  The Secure Data Service
• Mike Hawkins (HM Revenue and Customs)
  The HRMC Datalab

The future for administrative data in research

• Dr Kieron O'Hara (Head of the recent Cabinet Office Transparency and Privacy Review)
  Privacy, deanoymisation and transparency: a review for the Cabinet Office
• Dr Chris Dibben (University of St Andrews)
  Looking to the future: the challenges and potential of administrative data

Date: Monday the 11th July 2011 (deadline for booking 8th July)
Where: Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Price: £25 - £45 (including lunch)
Bookings: https://onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&catid=12&modid=2&prodid=212&deptid=29&prodvarid=0

For more information you can download the conference leaflet using the link below
http://www.adls.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ADLS-conference-flyer-final.pdf