[ABE] Freely Available: Statistical Journal of the IAOS, the Innovation Issue (30:2)

[Damiao Nobrega da Silva]

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Dear colleague,

This, the June 2014
issue<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-5efde2c8544552b9d069622267fcb7df-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
of the Statistical Journal of the
IAOS<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-d062ab5c67e948b61404541e7a0c68ee-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>,
like the second issue last year, is completely open to all. The issue is not
just for members of the IAOS but for everyone.

[Lars Thygesen]

The issue begins with a Skype interview with Lars
Thygesen<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-39ccf73d7480fa8c885aa6bf9954cf0d-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
from Denmark. The interview concentrates mainly on his seminal role in
starting the modern census movement back in the 1970's. In the interview Lars
talks about the early days of the still growing modern Census movement that
now relies as much as possible on existing data, rather than, as
traditionally, direct collection.

The idea that he and his team had, was to use population registers rather than
ask many of the same questions a second time in a census. Of course, there is
a lot more to the idea, when you get into the details and address quality and
timing issues, etc. But, bottom line, in the end the Thygesen Team was able to
greatly reduce both data collection cost and respondent burden. Since those
early days the idea has expanded as it moved from country to country but
always substituting, where possible, administrative/operating record data in
place of directly collected items. Simple in concept; but, as they say, the
devil is in the details. Or, as we would say in this case anyway, God was in
the details...

The rest of the June issue concerns data access -- not a new topic for an
official statistician. Important enough to be given this level of attention
(however, still without a general solution! Your turn?):

(1) First, there is a full set of papers on general statistical access
considerations submitted by the guest editor, Murray Cameron, from the United
Kingdom. If you are as experienced as we are, you may feel that there is
nothing new to say. At least in our case, though, there was still a lot to
learn. You be the judge?

(2) Second, there are multiple papers on both macro (Yang et al.) and micro
(Abowd et al.) protection tools that minimize the re-identification risk of
data that must be protected. Both teams employed mixed methods, but centered
on the use of synthetic (e.g.,fully imputed) data. The work was so innovative,
in fact, that the Abowd team will be receiving the 19th Roger Herriot
Innovation Award later this year when the American Statistical Association
celebrates its 175th year of operation (in Boston) this August.

One last observation? Notice this issue was labeled the "Innovation Issue."
Why? Isn't every issue innovative? Well, "Yes" and "No." Every issue of this
journal is full of new ideas that may lead to innovations in our work. But
here we are describing, in brief, new paradigms that are of proven worth --
already tested and ready for adapting to your use. You won't be disappointed.

Best wishes,

Fritz Scheuren
Editor in Chief

scheuren em aol.com<mailto:scheuren em aol.com>

Senior Fellow and Vice President
Center for Excellence in Survey Research
NORC at the University of Chicago

Contents

Editorial<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-bb2f144caae1ba15153d31b6d846867d-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>

Interview with Lars
Thygesen<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-366d223df036b6e97b4564be897c0ffc-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
N. Nelson and K. West

An evaluation of three disclosure limitation
models<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-5ea21da2ce9fe744da77e6190e857593-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
M. Yang, M. Buso, S. Butani, D. Hiles, A. Mushtaq, S. Pramanik and F. Scheuren

Opening
Statistics<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-15da321261b285510cf35ae190e55935-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
M.A. Cameron

The reproducible research movement in
statistics<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-349a7a0d417fb8fc7a79148b73efc77c-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
V. Stodden

Meeting the challenges of data infrastructure for collaborative
research<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-554b9aca4a4400284b764bf168d75c0c-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
R.L. Sandland

Why data availability is such a hard
problem<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-5c09fe7e5b6f7d993c0fbe5d1748c5d4-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
A.F. Karr

International support for data openness and
transparency<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-da8e865969f6baa9a77477dbe8b8b6c6-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
M.V. Belkindas and E.V. Swanson

Synthetic Establishment Data: Origins and Introduction to Current
Research<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-6c4a1f2db79cbc4d4a50200eb241c72b-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
J.M. Abowd

Expanding the role of synthetic data at the U.S. Census
Bureau<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-e87c3b9772037a65c613d0b00975982f-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
R.S. Jarmin, T.A. Louis and J. Miranda

Looking back on three years of using the Synthetic LBD
Beta<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-6df555993610b733823125e8487b0b50-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
J. Miranda and L. Vilhuber

SynLBD 2.0: Improving the synthetic Longitudinal Business
Database<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-2c83c06eebc34051e4683e5cc70be346-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
S.K. Kinney, J.P. Reiter and J. Miranda

A first step towards a German SynLBD: Constructing a German Longitudinal
Business
Database<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1403168485-5603eec18e8f4c3c48da8aec246b1747-34bbf27?pa=23391439618>
J. Drechsler and L. Vilhuber

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