Consumer Expenditure Survey Redesign Options Workshop
October 26, 2011
20 F Street NW Conference Center
Washington, DC 20001
AGENDA
October 26, 2011
8:00 – 8:30
Networking and Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00
Welcome, Introductions and Purpose of Workshop
Don Dillman, Panel Chair, Washington State University
9:00 – 10:15
Presentation of Redesign Recommendations - WESTAT
David Cantor, Team Leader
Sid Schneider
Brad Edwards
Abie Reifer
10:15 – 10:45
Break
10:45 – 12:00
Presentation of Redesign Recommendations – University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Nebraska, Abt-SRTI
Nancy Mathiowetz, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Team
Leader
Kristen Olson, University of Nebraska
Courtney Kennedy, Abt-SRTI
12:00 – 1:00
Working Lunch for Informal Discussion of Redesign Ideas
1:00 – 1:30
Discussant: Methodological/Cognitive Issues and the Proposed
Redesigns.
Richard Kulka, Consultant
1:30 – 2:00
Discussant: Implementing Change in a Large Ongoing Survey and
the Proposed Redesigns.
Chet Bowie, NORC (retired from U.S. Census Bureau)
2:00 – 2:40
Discussant Panel: Data Users of the Consumer Expenditure
Survey
Clinton McCully, Bureau of Economic Analysis. Macro-data use
by a Federal program
Mark Lino, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, USDA.
Micro-data use by a Federal program
Melvin Stephens, University of Michigan. Micro-data use by a
university researcher
2:40 – 3:00
Break
3:00 – 4:45
Open Discussion with Panel and Workshop Participants
Michael Horrigan, Associate Commissioner, BLS
Discussion Leader
4:45 - 5:00
Ending Remarks and Wrap-up
Don Dillman, Panel Chair, Washington State University
5:00 p.m.
Planned Adjournment