Call for Abstracts

Please please find below a list of relevant topics. Abstracts should be written in English, no longer than 500 words, and must include the substantive problem, the approach, data, and models employed as well as the main results of the analysis.

Submissions will be subject to a refereeing process. Notification of abstract acceptance for contributed abstracts will be issued by April 28th, 2025. The final version of all abstracts (keynote, invited and accepted contributed) can be submitted from April 28th to May 12th, 2025. Please find here a summary of the important dates.

Papers presented at the ITACOSM2025-IASS conference will be given preferential consideration for the special issue of the journal Survey Methodology. For further details, please visit the dedicated session on our website.

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List of Topics

Adaptive sample designs
Administrative registers, big data and sample surveys
Artificial Intelligence and Survey Statistics
Calibration methods for data integration
Capture-recapture methods
Data disclosure strategies and privacy protection
Data fusion
Data production
Data quality
Estimation from different data sources
Estimation issues from informative designs
Graph sampling and learning
Innovation in data collection
Integration and weighting in probability and nonprobability-based sample surveys
Machine and statistical learning methods in survey estimation
Missing data and imputation methods
Mixed mode surveys
Multiple frame surveys
Network sampling
New methods for censuses
Opinion polls
Population-size estimation
Record linkage
Resampling methods
Sample designs for complex populations (networks) and for integrated data
Sample selectivity
Sample surveys for sensitive data and indirect questioning
Sampling and non-sampling errors
Sampling for hard-to-reach populations
Small area estimation
Smart surveys
Spatial sampling and use of remote sensing data
Statistical matching
Variance estimation