Conference Program All papers are due by September 14, 2018. Please email them to IBUC2018@westat.com using the format guidelines provided here. Tuesday, October 23 - Day 1 8:15am - 9:00am | Registration and Coffee | 9:00am - 10:00am | Plenary Session- Opening Remarks – Gina Cheung, IBUC Chair, University of Michigan
- Welcome – Jim Smith, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Westat
- Blaise and Blaise 5 – Bert Kroese, Deputy Director General and CIO Statistics Netherlands/CBS and Harry Wijnhoven, Member of the Board of Directors and Deputy CIO Statistics Netherlands/CBS and CEO Blaise
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Break | 10:30am - 12:00pm | Presentation Session 1 (1.5 hours) Current Blaise 4 Uses, and Moving to Blaise 5 Session Chair: Rob Wallace – U.S. Census Bureau - Challenges While Converting from Blaise 4 to 5
Joost Huurman, Statistics Netherlands
- Migrating from Blaise 4 to Blaise 5 – The AHS experience
Roberto Picha and Richard J. Squires Jr., U.S. Census Bureau
- Using Blaise 5 for CAPI
Rick Dulaney and Boris Allan, Westat
- Rolling Out Blaise 5 – An Interesting Journey
R. Suresh, Keith Bajura, Matt Boyce, Emily Caron, Lilia Filippenko, Preethi Jayaram, Joe Nofziger, Patty LeBaron, Jean Robinson, Gil Rodriguez and Vorapranee Wickelgren, RTI International
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch | 1:00pm - 2:30pm | Presentation Session 2 (1.5 hours) Accessibility and Testing Session Chair: Jane Shepherd – Westat - Developing Accessible Blaise Surveys
Karen Brenner and Richard Frey, Westat
- Enhancing Blaise 4 Surveys for JAWS Screen Reader Compatibility
Mecene Desormice, Michael Mangiapane, Erin Slyne and Richard J. Squires Jr., U.S. Census Bureau
- A Process for Blaise Data Emulation for Complex Instruments
Todd Flannery, Ed Dolbow and Curtis Cooper, Westat
- An Approach to Unit Testing
Rod Furey, Statistics Netherlands
| 2:30pm - 2:50pm | Break | 2:50pm - 4:20pm | Presentation Session 3 (1.5 hours) Multimode and Survey Management Session Chair: Mark M. Pierzchala – MMP Survey Services, LLC - Experiences with Blaise 5 CATI and Multimode at Statistics Norway
Jan Haslund and Trond Båshus, Statistics Norway
- Implementing a Blaise 5 Mixed-Mode Solution
David Kinnear, Office for National Statistics, UK
- Blaise 5 with RTI's Integrated Field Management System on Field Interviewer Laptops
Lilia Filippenko, Preethi Jayaram, Joe Nofziger, Brandon Peele and R. Suresh, RTI International
- Conducting Offline Blaise 5 Surveys in a Distributed Environment
Marsha Skoman, University of Michigan
| 4:20pm - 4:30pm | Break | 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Presentation Session 4 (1 hour) Blaise 5 Multimode Management – A Report by the BCLUB Multimode Management Group Mark Pierzchala, MMP Survey Services | 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Welcome Reception |
Wednesday, October 24 - Day 2 8:15am - 9:00am | Registration and Coffee | 9:00am - 10:30am | Blending Designed and Harvested Data: What do we need to do? Conference Keynote – Dr. Robert M. Groves, Provost, Georgetown University | 10:30am - 11:00am | Break | 11:00am - 12:30pm | Blaise Team Presents | 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | 1:30pm - 3:30pm | Presentation Session 5 (2 hours) Screen Design Part 1 Session Chair: Tim Carati – Statistics Netherlands - Some Uses of Roles in Blaise 5
Boris Allan, Westat
- Web Screen Presentation Using Blaise 5
Michelle Amsbary, Rick Dulaney, Justin Kamens, Westat and Joelle Michaels, U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Developing Organization Level Screen Layout and Design Guidelines for Blaise 5
Karl Dinkelmann, Shane Empie, Rebecca Gatward, Lisa Holland and Andrew Hupp, University of Michigan
- Using Blaise 5 in CAWI
Rogier Hellenbrand, Statistics Netherlands
- Implementation of Blaise 5 Web Questionnaires into an Existing Business Survey Management System
Leif Bochis Madsen, Statistics Denmark
| 3:30pm - | Conference Excursion and
Dinner |
Thursday, October 25 - Day 3
8:30am - 10:30am | Presentation Session 6 (2 hours) Transitioning an Established Longitudinal Study to Blaise 5 and to a Mixed Mode Design: A Case Study using the Health and Retirement Study Session Chair: Mike Hart – Office for National Statistics, UK Rhonda Ash, Karl Dinkelmann, Shane Empie, Rebecca Gatward, Andrew Hupp, Jason Ostergren, James Rodgers, Marsha Skoman, Rhymney Weidner and Laura Yoder, University of Michigan
| 10:30am - 11:00am | Break | 11:00am - 12:30pm | Presentation Session 7 (1.5 Hours) Screen Design Part 2 – Mobile Session Chair: Leif Bochis Madsen – Statistics Denmark - Designing the Questionnaire of Tomorrow: Current Best Practices and Future Goals
Jeldrik Bakker and Marcel van der Steen, Statistics Netherlands
- Using Blaise 5 to Solve Multimode and Multi-Device Challenges
Kathleen O'Reagan and Nikki Brown, Westat
- Features Used in CAWI Questionnaires
Bryan Bungardt, Statistics Netherlands
- Mobile Usability on Household Survey on Blaise 5
Petri Godenhjelm, Pyry Keinonen and Anna Niemela, Statistics Finland
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Presentation Session 8 (1.5 hours) Surveys, Data and Training Session Chair: Éric Joyal – Statistics Canada - Surveys with Sensors: The Future of Data Collection?
Ole Mussmann and Marcel van der Steen, Statistics Netherlands and Barry Schouten, Statistics Netherlands and Utrecht University
- Transforming Survey Paradata
Laura Yoder, Andrew Piskorowski and Mark Simonson, University of Michigan
- A Different Approach to Blaise Remarks
Peter Stegehuis, Westat
- Script Writer - The Compilation of Script Generation
Max Malhotra, University of Michigan
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Presentation Session 9 (30 minutes) New Features in Blaise Colectica Questionnaires Jeremy Iverson and Dan Smith, Colectica | 3:30pm - 4:00pm | Break | 4:00pm - 5:30pm | International Blaise Users Group Meeting and "Tony" Award for IBUC Papers and Presentations |
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