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                 THE ASSOCIATION FOR SURVEY COMPUTING

                    SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
                                  on
                   SURVEY AND STATISTICAL COMPUTING

         Wednesday, September 11 to Friday, September 13, 1996
                       Imperial College, London

                          SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
                                  and
                         FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

To  celebrate its Silver Jubilee, the Association for Survey Computing
is   pleased   to  announce  that  it  will  be  hosting  its   Second
International Conference on Survey and Statistical Computing.

The  Scientific Programme will consist of both invited and contributed
papers  which will be included in the Proceedings and published  prior
to the Conference.

The official language of the Conference will be English.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Invited speakers will address plenary sessions and will include:

                             MAUREEN AMAR
                Field Director, NOP Research Group Ltd

                           WILLIAM E CONNETT
  Director of Computing, Survey Research Centre, Institute for Social
                   Research, University of Michigan

                           BJORN HENRICHSEN
           Director, Norwegian Social Science Data Services

                              DR TIM HOLT
 Director of the Central Statistical Office and Head of the Government
                          Statistical Service

                               GEOFF LEE
Acting Assistant Statistician, Statistical Services Branch, Australian
                         Bureau of Statistics

                         COLM O'MUIRCHEARTAIGH
    Director, The Methodology Institute, London School of Economics

                      PROFESSOR ROBERT WORCESTER
                            Chairman, MORI

STREAMS, THEMES AND TOPICS FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS:

Four  parallel streams of contributed papers will cover the  following
aspects of Computers in Surveys:

       o Survey Data
       o Survey Analysis
       o Survey Results
       o Survey Software

Contributed  papers  will be refereed and will cover  all  aspects  of
survey and statistical computing, including:

       o Case studies
       o Computer  aided  interviewing  (CAPI,  CATI,  etc)  and  data
          capture  technologies such as Optical Character  Recognition
          (OCR) and Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)
       o Data interchange
       o Data management and database design
       o Data  modelling techniques, statistical algorithms  and  data
          visualisation
       o Data quality, editing and imputation
       o Meta-data and survey documentation
       o Networking technology and its impact
       o Sample and field control
       o Secondary data
       o Statistical languages
       o Survey and questionnaire design
       o Survey systems

Interested  contributors should send, by 6th  October  1995,  a  brief
abstract (maximum 500 word), including title, relevant keywords and an
indication  of  the parallel session into which the paper  would  best
fit, to

         Diana Elder. ASC, PO Box 60, Chesham, Bucks  HP5 3QH
              tel/fax: 01494 793033; int: +44 1494 793033
                   electronic mail: asc@essex.ac.uk

Please  include your full address with 'phone and fax numbers and,  if
possible, electronic mail address. If you wish to discuss any  aspects
of  potential contributions, please feel free to contact  Randy  Banks
(Chair  of  the  Scientific Programme Committee) at  the  ASC  address
above.

DATES TO NOTE:

1995  October 6        Deadline for receipt of proposals for
                       contributed sessions

      November 6       Notification of acceptance sent out

1996  February 2       Deadline for receipt of first drafts of
                       papers for review

      March 5          Referees' comments sent out

      May 10           Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy
                       of papers for inclusion in proceedings

      September 11     Conference
      to September 13

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

The following organisations have already agreed to become sponsors  of
this Conference:

       o Forvus
       o Mercator Systems Ltd
       o SIA
       o SPSS

MEMBERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Randy Banks (Chair), University of Essex
Kathy Brooks, Forvus
Joan Fairgrieve, Edinburgh University
Laurance Gerrard, MORI
Jean Martin, OPCS
Terry Orchard, Department of Employment
Clive Payne, University of Oxford
Beverley Rowe, Independent Consultant
Andrew Westlake, Survey and Statistical Computing