Workshop on Longitudinal Surveys
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This workshop will allow the participants to understand the basic concepts underlying longitudinal surveys, either for social or economic studies. The participants will briefly look at themes such as the advantages and disadvantages of panels, typical sampling designs, parameters related to the sampling design, longitudinal units, the use of registers and other sampling frames, sample selection, questionnaire design, data collection, non-response and estimation. With this workshop, the participants will understand the basic concepts needed to help them to design, conduct and analyse longitudinal surveys.
About the Leader: Survey statistician at Statistics Canada since 1985, Pierre Lavallée has worked on enterprise surveys, social surveys, and agricultural surveys. In addition, he has worked for Eurostat at Luxembourg. During his career, a large number of the surveys on which he has worked were longitudinal surveys. He has presented numerous papers on this topic in North America and in Europe and, in addition, he has developed and given a one-week course on the topic. His wide-ranging experience with longitudinal surveys has led him to address problems of all kinds related to the application of survey theory in the real world. Pierre Lavallée holds a Ph.D. in statistics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he is a member of the International Statistical Institute and he is the Past President of the Association des Statisticiennes et Statisticiens du Québec.
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