IAOS Executive Meeting, New York, 3 March 2004
Those IAOS Executive members who were in New York to attend the 35^th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission met on 3 March 2004 to discuss the following IAOS matters:
a. the IAOS/IASS Conference on “Poverty, Social Exclusion and Development: a Statistical Perspective” to be held in Amman, Jordan on 29 November to 1 December 2004;
b. IAOS preparations for the ISI Sydney Session, April 2005;
c. the organisation of the IAOS Satellite Conferences attaching to the ISI Sydney Session;
d. the next IAOS Nominations Committee;
e. other matters.

Details are set out below under the various sub-headings.

IAOS/IASS Conference on Poverty, Social Exclusion and Development: a Statistical Perspective, Amman, Jordan, 29 November to 1 December 2004
The preparations for the Conference are in full swing. The Scientific Programme has now been finalised. Among the speakers, there are many world leading researchers and statisticians. This Conference will be an excellent opportunity to learn what the main challenges are and how we could respond to them in the field of official statistics. The brochure of the Conference has been distributed and the registration has started with full details on the IAOS website at http://tilastokeskus.fi/iaos . The IAOS and IASS, with the help of the ISI Permanent Office and some international organisations, are encouraging and supporting participation from the least developed countries to this Conference. The participants, especially speakers, can apply for financial support for participation costs. Further details are set out below and the more detailed instructions and application form are available on the IAOS website. 
We welcome the active participation of our members and all who are interested in these crucial issues relating to the development of social and economic statistics. We look forward to seeing you all in Amman.

IAOS is very grateful to Dr Hussein Shakhatreh and the Department of Statistics of Jordan and Alain Azouvi, Chair of the Programme Committee, for their invaluable work in preparing for the contribution. Our warm thanks are also extended to the ISI Permanent Office and all those colleagues and organisations that are supporting and actively contributing to the success of this Conference.

IAOS

The IAOS/IASS Jordan Conference World Bank Group Support Fund
As noted above, a support fund has been established to assist people from developing countries in participating in the Jordan Conference. The IAOS/IASS are particularly appreciative of the financial support for the Fund from the World Bank Group.
A copy of the selection criteria for accessing the Fund is attached. The application form can be accessed from the IAOS website.
IAOS Programme for the 55^th ISI Session, Sydney, Australia, 5 to 12 April 2005
The IAOS Programme Committee, Chaired by Fred Ho, for the ISI Sydney Session has now finished its work. The IAOS Executive extends its thanks to Fred and the Committee for their work.

Fred Ho reports that the organisers for the Invited Paper Meetings (IPMs) have been appointed as below:

(IPM 27) IAOS FORUM: New social and economic indicators for local areas without increasing respondent burden 
ORGANISER: Hermann Habermann (USA) 
hermann.habermann@census.gov  
US Census Bureau 

(IPM 28) Impact of the "international indicators of development" movement on national statistical programme priorities 
ORGANISER: Ada van Krimpen (The Netherlands) 
akin@cbs.nl
Statistics Netherlands 

(IPM 29) Statistical measurement issues requiring collaboration among NSOs 
ORGANISER: Richard Barnabe (Canada) 
richard.barnabe@statcan.ca 
Statistics Canada 

(IPM 30) Statistics on International Migration 
ORGANISER: Brian Pink (New Zealand)
brian.pink@stats.govt.nz  
Statistics New Zealand 

(IPM 31) The role of official statistics in innovation, knowledge management and development of the new economy
ORGANISER: Shigeru Kawasaki (Japan) 
skawasaki@stat.go.jp  
Statistics Bureau of Japan 

(IPM 32) The regional and urban dimension of official statistics: small area statistics and data of particular relevance to regional and urban planning 
ORGANISER: Derek Bond (UK) 
d.bond@ulst.ac.uk  
University of Ulster, U.K. 

(IPM 33) Standards for regional and urban indicators 
ORGANIZER: Rosa Giaimo (Italy) 
giaimo@unipa.it  
University of Palermo, Italy 

(IPM 34) Asian Statistical Forum: Official Statistics in the Asia Pacific Region - New Challenges and intra-regional co-operation 
ORGANIZER: Nailin Feng (China) 
nlfeng@stats.gov.cn  
National Bureau of Statistics, China 
Several other IPMs are managed jointly by the IAOS and other ISI Sections; organisers have also been appointed: 

(IPM 35) Response burden and public cooperation in statistical surveys (with IASS) 
ORGANISER: Luigi Biggeri 
biggeri@istat.it  
ISTAT, Italy 

(IPM 51) Promotion of statistical literacy among students (with IASE) 
ORGANISER: Pilar Martín-Guzmán (Spain) 
pilar.guzman@uam.es  
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 

(IPM 63) Educating the media on how best to report statistics (with IASE and IASS) 
ORGANISER: Jacob Ryten (Canada) 
rytenjacob@msn.com  

(IPM 85) The development of quarterly national accounts by institutional sector (with Finance) 
ORGANISER: Richard Walton (UK) 
richard.walton@bankofengland.co.uk  
Bank of England, U.K. 

Organisers are now in the process of inviting authors and fixing the titles and contents of the papers. Discussants are also being invited. Much of this work has already proceeded to an advanced stage. 
Members of the ISI and its Sections, as well as other interested parties, may wish to note the themes of the IPMs and should feel free to let their wishes be known to the Organisers with regard to the subject matter contents and emphases of the IPMs. This should contribute to the richness of the IPMs.

IAOS

IAOS Satellite Meetings during the 2005 Sydney ISI Session
Preparations are ongoing to organise two IAOS Satellite Meetings during the 2005 Sydney ISI Session. New Caledonia will host a Satellite Meeting before the ISI Session on the topic “Issues for Official Statistics for Small Countries (Especially Island Nations)”. This will be held in Noumea between 31 March-2 April 2005. The second meeting will be held after the ISI Session in New Zealand and it will be hosted by Statistics New Zealand. The topic is “Challenges in Measuring Small and Indigenous Populations”. More information on both meetings follows, and can also be obtained from the IAOS website.

a. Satellite Meeting on “Issues for Small Countries (Especially Island Nations)”, New Caledonia, 31 March to 2 April 2005
The Organising Committee for this Conference will be meeting in New Caledonia on 23 to 25 June 2004 to firm up arrangements.
The themes to be covered in the Conference are:
1. The role, relevance, importance of the millennium development goals (MDG’s) for small nations. This would cover issues of capacity building and sustainability as well.
2. Technology – problems and solutions for small nations. The Secretariat for the Pacific Community (SPC) (the host of the meeting) has developed an international database – PRISM – that provides some unique solutions for small nations. The session may also cover software and hardware issues, remote sensing and satellite technology and how small nations can take advantage of technology.
3. Use and relevance of international standards. Very few small nations have, for example, adopted SNA 93.
4. Sampling and estimation issues for small counties.

For more information, contact Gerard Baudchon at itsee@itsee.nc  or Brian Doyle at briandoylestats@yahoo.com.au .
Further details will be available on the IAOS website as they become available.

b. Satellite Meeting on “Statistics for Small Populations, Including Indigenous and Small Domain Populations,” Wellington, New Zealand, 14 to 15 April 2005
The general theme of the meeting is increasing small and indigenous populations.
While the main focus is on methodological issues, the Satellite Meeting will also be of direct interest to economic and social researchers, as the theme encompasses the challenges of measuring small domains in economic, social and population statistics.
Among the themes likely to be covered by papers are:
• Statistical methods used to collect information in censuses or other large-scale surveys
• measurement and improvement of data quality
• the derivation of indicators on indigenous populations, communities or sub-national areas
• statistical use of administrative data sources
• experience with data integration initiatives
• small area estimation
• other new developments in satisfying the growing demand for disaggregated statistical measures.

Full details of the Conference, including a call for papers and expressions of interest are on the IAOS website, or e-mail isisatellite@stats.govt.nz .

IAOS Nominations Committee
The next IAOS Nominations Committee will be Chaired by Hallgrimur Snorrasson (Iceland). The Committee’s task is to propose nominations for the 2005-2007 Executive Committee of the IAOS.
IAOS Programme Committee for the ISI 2007 Session
Richard Barnabe (Canada) will Chair this Programme Committee.

IAOS

Other Matters
The IAOS has earlier approved the idea to give a Prize for the best paper for the young statisticians attending the IAOS or ISI Conferences. The idea has, however, never been realised. The Executive Committee has agreed to further elaborate on this issue. The IAOS wants to encourage and support the active participation of its members coming especially from the least developed countries to the Sydney Session. Further information can be obtained from our website later on or by contacting the Exco members.

The website of the IAOS has been revised by Statistics Finland. The site is now frequently updated by the same office. Members are welcome to update their knowledge on the current activities of the IAOS by visiting the site regularly.

Comments and suggestions on revitalising the IAOS continue to be actively encouraged and can be sent to:
IAOS President: Heli Jeskanen-Sundström at Heli.Jeskanen-Sundstrom@stat.fi .

The IAOS/IASS Jordan Conference World Bank Group Support Fund
The IAOS/IASS Jordan Conference WBG Support Fund will have the following characteristics: 
• The maximum amount available from this Fund is US$50,000.
• Prospective participants (in particular from developing nations who live and work in those countries) can apply for financial support from the Fund to cover their economy class travel costs (a copy of economy class ticket is eventually to be submitted to the ISI Permanent Office), registration fee and perdiem (based upon standard UN rates, from which the participant will be expected to cover all accommodation, food and incidental costs including ground transportation) based upon attendance at the November 29-December 1, 2004 IAOS/IASS Conference in Jordan. Funds may also be used, should the applicant wish to extend his/her attendance to participate in the ISI Briefing Seminar for Chief Statisticians, but may not be used to cover registration fees for that Seminar.
• Preference will be given to candidates from developing nations who did their work in a developing country. Candidates from other countries will be considered, funds permitting.
• Applicants should include two references from standing IAOS/IASS/ISI members if they are not already a member.
• Preference will be given to candidates who take an active role in the Conference (by presenting a paper, or acting as Chair or discussant). Proposed papers of applicants will receive a quality assessment to determine priority. 
• Applicants should attach brief curriculum vitae to their application.
• Female applicants will be preferred over male candidates, and younger applicants will be preferred over older applicants, all other things being equal.
• Applications for the IASS/IAOS funds may be submitted at any time up until the application deadline of September 1, 2004. 
• Candidates are to use the form provided by the ISI Permanent Office, and address it to the Director of the ISI, Prinses Beatrixlaan 428, 2273 XZ  Voorburg, The Netherlands. 
• If not already an IAOS, IASS or ISI member, applicants will be registered to an ISI Section of their selection. Section registration costs are to be incorporated into the application budget. 
• Applications submitted to the ISI Permanent Office will be judged on the basis of the criteria outlined above until the Fund has been depleted. 

Application forms can be obtained on request from:
The ISI Permanent Office, P.O. Box 950, 2270 AZ Voorburg, The Netherlands (@cbs.nl) or obtained from the IAOS website.
Representatives from the IAOS/IASS will decide on each application in a timely manner, assisted as the need arises by experts who will be approached for that purpose. Exceptions to the above guidelines will only be made under very exceptional circumstances. Decisions are final, and there is no procedure for appeal.

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 International Association of Survey Statisticians

	President	Prof. Luigi Biggeri, ISTAT, Via Cesare Balbo, 16, 00184 Roma, Italy Tel. : +39 06 46731 E-mail : biggeri@istat.it
	Executive Director	Mr. Michel Péronnet, INSEE/CEFIL, 3, rue de la Cité, 33500 Libourne, France. Tel.: +33 (0)5 57 55 56 02 E-mail: michel.peronnet@insee.fr
	Secretariat	c/o Mme Claude Olivier, CEFIL (INSEE), 3 rue de la Cité, 33500 Libourne, France. Tel.: +33 (0)5 5755 5600 — Fax: +33 (0)5 5755 5620  E-mail: claude.olivier@insee.fr
	Executive Secretary	Anna Maria Vespa, Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), 9 rue Georges Pitard, 75015 Paris, France.  Tel. :+33-1-53685571 Fax : +33-1-53685501 E-mail : vespa@cepii.fr
	Website	http://isi.cbs.nl/iass/index.htm

Message from the IASS President

The main IASS activities are reported in the following notes. 
A report from our Webmaster, Eric Rancourt, describes the great improvements that have been achieved with regard to the organisation and presentation of information on the IASS website. I would like to thank Eric for his big efforts in renewing our site. 
Thanks to the commitment of Anders Christianson, the “Ask the Experts” session of the Survey Statistician has been revived, as described below. I would like to express my gratitude and best wishes for his future work to Anders.

I am pleased to announce that the IASS is sponsoring the Satellite Conference of the 55th ISI Session in honour of Alastair J. Scott. The Conference title is “Complex sampling, retrospective sampling and missing data: A Conference in honour of Alastair J. Scott”. The Conference will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 13 to 14 April 2005. 
This Conference is in honour of the distinguished career of Alastair Scott on the occasion of his retirement. Alastair Scott has made many fundamental contributions to the analysis of survey data, often in collaboration with J.N.K. Rao. Their 1981 JASA paper was selected as one of the 19 landmark papers in the history of survey sampling for the 2001 IASS centenary volume. He has also made fundamental contributions to many other areas of statistics including the design and analysis of retrospective studies, extending classical results for case control studies. Alastair is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, a Past President and Honorary Life Member of the New Zealand Statistical Association and the Founding Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland.
For further information, please contact Chris Wild ( c.wild@auckland.ac.nz ).

The IASS is also sponsoring the "Quatrième Colloque Francophone sur les Sondages", which will be held from 24 to 27 May 2005 in Québec, Canada. This Conference is organised by the “Institut de statistique du Québec” and the “Université Laval” with the cooperation of Statistics Canada, the “Société de Statistique du Canada (SSC)”, the “Université de Montréal” and the “Association des statisticiens et statisticiennes du Québec (ASSQ)”. Additional information can be asked from Benoît Riandey ( riandey@ined.fr ).
The IASS has accepted the request of sponsoring the International Conference on "Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys", which Mr. Peter Lynn ( p.lynn@essex.ac.uk ) is organising at the University of Essex, UK, in July 2006.

Luigi Biggeri

Re-organisation of the Website
At the IASS Executive Meeting in Berlin, there was a general agreement that our website could and should be improved. As a result, the site was re-organised in the remainder of 2003 and was put up at the beginning of 2004. 
Firstly, the welcoming page was changed and users have now access to a fully bilingual site. Further, it is possible to toggle between the French and English versions in various ways. Secondly, the list of topics available on the first page was re-arranged and enhanced. For instance, the list of IASS publications was finally set up and we try to keep up more quickly with conferences to come. Thirdly, we improved the presentation of short courses offered by the IASS. Fourthly, a lot of work was put into reviving the questions and answers into a section called “Ask the Experts”, thanks to Anders Christianson. To that end, new questions and answers that are received for this section are made available on the site as quickly as possible once they are finalised. Finally, let me remind you that the Survey Statistician continues to be available in both languages on the website. 

A lot of thanks are due to Hans Lucas for his immense help and for his suggestions on many ways to make the site better. I would also like to thank Anders Christianson, Steven Heeringa, Marina Signore and Beverley Carlson for their suggestions. 
Finally, I would like to turn to all IASS members and encourage you to visit our new website ( http://isi.cbs.nl/iass/index.htm ). As the site is in constant evolution, please do not hesitate to provide me with your suggestions, comments and updates. Thank you.

Eric Rancourt
(Eric.Rancourt@statcan.ca)
IASS Webmaster

Ask the Experts
At the IASS meeting in Berlin, Anders Christianson (anders.christianson@telia.com) took on the responsibility to revive and give propulsion to the “Ask the Experts” session of the Survey Statistician, which is also published on the IASS website. The publication is made in cooperation with Steven Heeringa and Eric Rancourt. 
The start of this new task required some efforts and time, but it is now rolling. 
In the January issue of the Survey Statistician, a call for submitting questions has been published and the first responses have already appeared on the IASS website, as mentioned above. 
It is the intention of the editor to try to cover all the different fields of survey methodology and, in particular, issues that are of current special interest. Therefore, with the consensus of Marina Signore, the Scientific Secretary, Anders Christianson has asked the Invited Papers Meetings Chairs and Short Courses Lecturers to provide answers - and even questions - in Sydney 2005. This will also help drawing the members' interest to the IASS sessions and courses, thus creating an interaction between the Newsletter, the website and the IASS Programme in Sydney.

IASS Meeting, Mainz 2004
As already announced in the past issue of the ISI Newsletter, an IASS meeting to discuss topics concerning survey methodology has been organised during the European Conference on Quality and Methodology in Official Statistics, Mainz, Germany, from 24 to 26 May, 2004. The meeting is scheduled on Monday, 24 May, from 17:30 to 18:30. An announcement of the meeting, together with the Agenda, has been sent to the IASS Council, as well as to all the participants of the Conference. Information on the discussion and the conclusions reached during the meeting will be provided in the next issue.
For further information, please contact Ralf Münnich at the following address: ralf.muennich@uni-tuebingen.de or visit the webpage http://publicstatistics.net . 

IASS

IAOS/IASS Joint Conference, Amman 2004
The IAOS/IASS Joint Conference on “Poverty, Social Exclusion and Development: a Statistical Perspective” will be held in Amman, Jordan, from 29 November to 1 December 2004. 
An additional day, on the same topic, is foreseen for Arab statisticians.

The Programme Committee is composed as follows:
Mr. Alain Azouvi, Chairman of the Programme Committee ( alain.azouvi@wanadoo.fr )
Mr. Hasan Abu-Libdeh, Palestinia CBS ( hal@p-ol.com )
Mr. Jeremiah Banda, UNSD ( banda@un.org )
Mr. Misha Belkindas, World Bank ( mbelkindas@worldbank.org )
Mr. Derek Bond, SCORUS ( d.bond@ulst.ac.uk )
Ms. Beverley Carlson, ECLAC ( bcarlson@eclac.cl )
Ms. Carmen Fejo, IBGE, Brazil ( cfeijo@terra.com.br , cfeijo@ibge.gov.br )
Mr. Madior Fall, Rio Group ( madior.fall@insee.fr , madior.fall@ens.fr )
Mr. Hussein Shakhatreh, Jordan DOS ( hshakhatreh@dos.gov.jo )

The Conference Programme includes Keynote Speakers and Scientific Meetings with Invited Papers. One meeting per day of Contributed Papers is foreseen, targeting at young statisticians. The final list and addresses of the meeting leaders of the Conference is reported below:

Names	Meetings
Markku Lindqvist (Statistics Finland)   markku.lindqvist@stat.fi	Meeting 1 or 2 – Different dimensions of poverty
Linda Sabbadini (ISTAT) sabbadin@istat.it
	Meeting 1 or 2 – Different dimensions of poverty
Stefan Schweinfest (UNSD) schweinfest@un.org
	Meeting 3 – Approaches of international organisations (I)
Haeduck Lee (World Bank) Hlee@worldbank.org
	Meeting 4 – Approaches of international organisations (II)
Derek Bond (SCORUS) D.Bond@ulster.ac.uk
	Meeting 5 – Local statistics, regional statistics and Poverty; Rural poverty
Sylvie Michaud (Statistics Canada) sylvie.michaud@statcan.ca
	Meeting 6- Tools
Beverley Carlson (ECLAC) bcarlson@eclac.cl
	Meeting 7 - Specific aspects of poverty: gender; youth; health; ethnic groups; …
Madior Fall (Rio Group) madior.fall@ens.fr
	Meeting 8 – Images of poverty
Derek Bond (SCORUS) D.Bond@ulster.ac.uk
	Meeting 9 – International comparisons of poverty
Mary Chamie (UNSD) mchamie@un.org
	Meeting 10 – Limits and gaps of social statistics: in developing countries; in developed countries
Cécile Brousse (INSEE) cecile.brousse@cerc.gouv.fr
	Meeting 11 – Excluded and “underclass” populations
Carmem Feijo (UFF; ENCE/IBGE) cfeijo@terra.com.br
	Meeting 12 – Non-market economy and poverty
Mireille Razafindrakoto, François Roubaud (DIAL) razafindrakoto@dial.prd.fr  roubaud@dial.prd.fr
	Meeting 13 – Poverty analysis through anthropologists’ and sociologists’ approaches : « The voice of the poor »
Siriki Coulibaly (Afristat) siriki.coulibaly@afristat.org
	Meeting 14 – Information systems for poverty follow up
Dr. Munther W. Masri (through DOS of Jordan) mmasri@nchrd.gov.jo
	Meeting 15 or 16 - Poverty and economic and social policies
Sylvie Lambert (INRA) sylvie.lambert@ens.fr
	Meeting 15 or 16 - Poverty and economic and social policies

Participants, especially speakers, can apply for financial support. More detailed instructions and the application form will be available on the IAOS website and on the IASS website (http://isi.cbs.nl/iass/).

Further information on the Conference can be found at the following address: http://www.dos.gov.jo .

IASS Invited Papers Meetings, Sydney 2005
The IASS Programme Committee for the ISI Session, Sydney 2005, is chaired by Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva (pedrosilva@ibge.gov.br). The topics of the Invited Paper Meetings have been defined. For all meetings, an organiser has already confirmed his/her commitment. Some meetings are jointly sponsored with other ISI Sections. 

The following table reports the sponsoring Section(s), the Organiser, the title and the number of the Invited Paper Meetings with IASS Sponsorship:

Sponsoring Section(s)	Organiser	Title	Number
IASS	Steven Heeringa	Developments in the analysis of longitudinal survey data	53
IASS	Ray Chambers	Use of model diagnostics in survey sampling	54
IASS	Michel Latouche	Calibration in practice	55
IASS	Lars Lyberg	Quality measurement and reporting for surveys	56
IASS	Bill Gross	Resampling methods for variance estimation in complex surveys	57
IASS	Pedro Revilla	Experiences in data collection with internet surveys	58
IASS	Vasja Vehovar	Inferential potentials of non-probability samples	59
IASS	Kari Djerf	Access to micro data while securing confidentiality protection	60
IASS	Dalisay Maligalig	Surveys of small and medium sized enterprises	61
IASS	Ibrahim Yansaneh	Estimation with rotating panel designs	62
IASS, IASE, IAOS	Jacob Ryten	Educating the media on how best to report statistics	63
IASS, IAOS	Luigi Biggeri	Response burden and public cooperation in statistical surveys	35
IASE, IASS	Wilton de Oliveira Bussab	Challenges in the teaching of survey sampling	83

IASS

IASS Short Courses, Sydney 2005 
The organisation of the IASS Short Courses, to be held in connection with the 55^th ISI Session, started in September 2003. 
Earlier announcements have been published in the past issues of the ISI Newsletter and in the Bulletin n°1 of the ISI 2005. The Short Courses will be advertised in the next issue of the Survey Statistician and they will be posted soon on the IASS website. Brochures prepared by Istat (Italy) with the Short Courses Programme will be distributed to all the participants of the European Conference on Quality and Methodology in Official Statistics, Q2004, in Mainz, 24-26 May 2004.
I would like to thank the IASS Council and the past Scientific Secretaries for their helpful advice and support in defining the Programme of the Short Courses covering relevant topics of survey methodologies, with a good balance of new courses, offered for the first time and of courses which have already been held in previous ISI Sessions. I would like to express appreciation to the high-level lecturers, who have accepted to hold the Short Courses and who have contributed with useful suggestions and inputs. I am particularly grateful to Graham Kalton, Daniel Kasprzyk, John Kovar and Seppo Laaksonen for their timely and experienced advice and for all the useful information they have provided me so far. Special thanks are also due to the Local Organisers of the 55^th ISI Session in Sydney and, in particular, to Anna Poskitt for their very efficient support for the necessary local arrangements.
Funding assistance for supporting statisticians from developing and transitional countries will be provided by international organisations. Further information concerning the U.N. Statistical Division sponsorship can be found at the following address: http://isi.cbs.nl/05session/UNSD.htm . The website contains the application forms and lists the application criteria. Anyone wishing to attend IASS Short Courses who would like to apply for the UNSD Fund should complete this application form and return it to the ISI.

Programme
The IASS has defined a preliminary Programme of Short Courses to be offered just prior to or after the 55th ISI Session, which will be held in Sydney, Australia, April 5-12, 2005.
The Courses are led by international high-level experts and are addressed to practitioners, researchers and students in statistics and survey methodology. The official language of the Courses is English.
The following Courses have been planned. However, the Programme might be modified according to the students’ participation.
Venue: Australian Bureau of Statistics
St. Andrew's House
Sydney Square
Sydney NSW 2000

Course A: Workshop on Survey Sampling
Presented by:
Graham Kalton (Westat) 
Steven Heeringa (Survey Research Center, University of Michigan)

The workshop will focus on practical aspects of sampling for household surveys. It will start from basic principles and build up to complex stratified multi-stage sample designs. It will cover the main sampling techniques and also such issues as sampling frames, weighting and imputation. It will end with an introduction to variance estimation with complex sample designs.
Duration: 2.5 days
Dates: 1 and 2 April 2005 (full days); 3 April 2005 (morning) 

Course B: Variance Estimation in Complex Surveys
Presented by:
Wayne Fuller (Iowa State Universtiy)
Kirk Wolter (University of Chicago)
F. Jay Breidt (Colorado State University)
Anthony An (SAS Institute) 

The purpose of this Course is to provide training in variance estimation in complex surveys for survey statisticians, especially those from developing countries. The Course will cover methods of estimating variances for statistics such as means, proportions, ratios, regression coefficients, and statistics arising in the analysis of two-way contingency tables. Both linearisation and replication methods will be discussed. The use of computer software for computing variances of statistics from complex sample designs will be demonstrated and instruction will be given in practical applications. About a half of the Course will be devoted to implementation on the computer.
Duration: 2 days
Dates: 3 April 2005 (afternoon); 4 April 2005 (full day); 5 April 2005 (morning)

Course C: Workshop on Editing and Imputation of Survey Data 
Presented by:
John G. Kovar (Statistics Canada)
Eric Rancourt (Statistics Canada)

Surveys and censuses conducted by national statistical agencies, research institutes and other survey organisations suffer from various degrees of nonresponse even under ideal conditions. In order to try to alleviate the problems caused by nonresponse, editing and imputation methods are usually applied. Since the process of editing and imputation is time and resource intensive, care must be exercised in controlling the efficiency as well as the effectiveness of the methods. The aim of this Short Course is to introduce the students to methods of prevention, detection and treatment of nonresponse. Evaluation of such methods and their impact on the survey outputs will be highlighted. Existing edit and imputation software will be compared. Numerous examples will be provided to illustrate the material presented.
Duration: 1.5 days
Dates: 4 April 2005 (full day) and 5 April 2005 (morning)

Course D: Introduction to Survey Quality
Presented by:
Paul Biemer (RTI International and University of North Carolina)
Lars Lyberg (Statistics Sweden)

The Course is designed for a broad audience that includes experienced survey researchers who would benefit from a better understanding of the survey data quality, as well as others with little or no prior experience in survey methods. It will provide a brief introduction to survey quality using total survey error paradigm. The Course begins with a discussion of total survey error and its relationship to survey costs. Then the major sources of survey error are discussed, focusing on four major sources: coverage error, nonresponse, data processing error and measurement error. We also discuss some methods that are most often used in practice for evaluating the effects of the source on total survey error.
Duration: 2 days
Dates: 3 April 2005 (afternoon), 4 April 2005 (full day) and 5 April 2005 (morning)

Course E: Statistical Disclosure Control
Presented by:
Anco Hundepool (Statistics Netherlands)
Eric Schulte Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands)
Peter-Paul de Wolf (Statistics Netherlands)

The purpose of this Course is to provide the participants with an understanding of the methodological aspects of Statistical Disclosure Control, to train them in solving problems on this topic and to demonstrate the ARGUS software. The meaning and impact of Statistical Disclosure Control can only be appreciated in the light of practical problems and policy related issues. Therefore, some attention is also paid to such topics without putting heavy emphasis on them. Topics covered include theory and methods on microdata, exercises on microdata, demonstration of Mu-ARGUS, theory and methods on tabular data, exercises on tabular data, demonstration of Tau-ARGUS, legal issues, on-site facilities and remote access. 
Duration: 2 days
Dates: 13 and 14 April 2005 (full days)

Course F: Design and Analysis of Repeated Surveys
Presented by:
David Steel (University of Wollongong)
Craig McLaren (Australian Bureau of Statistics)

This Course will consider the interaction between the design of a repeated survey and the methods used for estimation and analysis. The choice of rotation pattern will be considered in terms of the impact on the estimation of levels and changes. Composite and other forms of estimators will be reviewed and the interaction between design and estimation explored. Estimation of seasonally adjusted and trend estimates from repeated surveys will also be considered. 
Duration: 2 days
Dates: 13 and 14 April 2005 (full days)

Registration
Course participants are required to be members of the IASS in good standing. For non-IASS members, membership to the IASS is offered together with the participation to a Course.

Deadline
The deadline for registration is 31 December 2004. For late registration, a penalty of €50 will be added.

Course Fees

	1 course	2 courses	3 courses
IASS members from Developed Countries or sponsored by a Developed Country	€240	€360	€420
Non-IASS members from Developed Countries or sponsored by a Developed Country	€260	€380	€440
IASS members from Developing or Transitional Countries	€120	€180	€210
Non-IASS members from Developing or Transitional Countries	€130	€190	€220

Group discount for several participants from the same Institute are available: 10% discount for 5 people and 20% for 10 people.

The registration form will be posted on the IASS website http://isi.cbs.nl/iass/ and on the Conference website http://www.tourhosts.com.au/isi2005/ . 

For early registration, further information and expression of interest, please write to the following address: ISI2005_IASS_shortcourses@istat.it 

Marina Signore
IASS Scientific Secretary

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		Editorial Address	Joyce C. Niland, Ph.D., IASC Scientific Secretary, Chair of Division of Information Science, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA Tel: (626) 359-8111; Fax: (626) 303-5912 E-mail: jniland@coh.org
		President	Stanley P. Azen, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA 90033 Tel: (323) 442-1810; Fax: (323) 442-2993 E-mail: sazen@usc.edu
		Website	http://www.stat.unipg.it/iasc/ ; www.csdassn.org

I. IASC CSDA-SSN Website: 
We are pleased to announce that the Statistical Software Newsletter (SSN—Section IV of CSDA) has been restructured to an electronic version appearing on the CSDA_SSN website, www.csdassn.org . The CSDA-SSN website links to the IASC and ISI homepages, as well as with the CSDA homepage. 

We encourage IASC members to submit IASC news items and calendar of events, not only to the IASC Scientific Secretary (for publication in the ISI Newsletter), but also to the CSDA_SSN website. In addition, updates regarding statistical software and applications can also be submitted to the CSDA_SSN website, along with a link to the software developer. This provides an excellent opportunity for promoting the use of new developments in statistical software, and obtaining feedback from interested IASC members.

The website was developed by James Baurley, a graduate student/staff member of Stan Azen’s Biostatistics Program at the University of Southern California. Review and oversight of the contents of the submitted material will be provided by Allmut Hoerman and Andy Degas.

II. IASC Meetings at COMPSTAT 2004, 16^th Symposium of IASC, Prague, August 23-27, 2004. 
A meeting has been scheduled for the IASC Council on Tuesday, August 24^th, from 12:35 to 14:30. The agenda items will include: 1) reports from the President, Treasurer, Secretary and Regional sections; 2) reports regarding IASC committees and appointments; 3) report regarding CSDA and the CSDA_SSN website; 4) IASC membership issues; 5) elections for 2005; and 6) forthcoming meetings. Please advise the Scientific Secretary about any other issues that need to be discussed. 

In addition, a meeting has been scheduled for the Associate Editors of CSDA on Wednesday, August 25th, from 11:15 to 13:15. The agenda items will include: 1) update of CSDA activities; 2) future directions for CSDA; 3) recommendations for changes in the Editorial Board; and 4) Special Issues. 

For information regarding the COMPSTAT meeting, go to the website: http://compstat2004.cuni.cz or write to compstat2004@cuni.cz .

III. Availability of CSDA On-line. 
Margaret de Ruiter-Molloy, Membership Officer of the ISI, requested that we notify all IASC members of the availability of CSDA On-line, after payment of their membership fees. 

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FREE ON-LINE ACCESS TO COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS FOR IASC MEMBERS
Elsevier is pleased to continue offering free access to CSDA for IASC members. IASC members can follow the guidelines below for activating and using their account.

Activating Access to Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.
To activate your access to the journal Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, you can enter your membership number of the International Association for Statistical Computing. If you cannot find your membership number, please contact Mrs. M. de Ruiter-Molloy at the ISI Permanent Office, e-mail: @cbs.nl. The Membership Number has to be entered at: https://cs.sciencedirect.com/activate/csda/members 

Note that “https://” MUST be entered for this URL – “http://” will not work. This is to ensure that your registration details are secured when you enter them into the registration form.

After entering, click on "submit". The next step is completing a user profile. You will be asked to fill out a form and choose a password. A username will be assigned. Both username and password will be case sensitive. After registration, you can directly login with your new username and password.

Note! - Please do NOT use special characters, such as ö, ä, æ when entering your personal details into the profile form.

In the future, you can go straight to: http://www.sciencedirect.com/csda and enter your personal username and password in the login bar on the top of the page.

If you encounter any problems registering, please note that older browsers may not support SSL encryption, which is required for secure data transmission. Also, cookies must be enabled in your browser to support the registration process.

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IV. Statistics: Investment in the Future: Prague, September 6-7, 2004. 
Petra Grabaová of the Czech Statistical Office has submitted the following news item. An international conference, Statistics: Investment in the Future, will be held on September 6-7, 2004, at the CNB Congress Centre, Prague, Czech Republic. The Conference is organised by the Czech Statistical Office in cooperation with the Czech National Bank and the School of Economics on the occasion of the 85^th anniversary of Czech official statistics. The objective of the Conference is to contribute to the exchange of findings, observations and experience concerning the provision of statistical data for fulfilling the user's needs and the widest possible use of statistics for the current demographic development of society. 

Statistics is a significant investment in the future ? all depends on what statistical data are produced and how the data are applied. The importance of statistics grows with emerging new phenomena and processes such as the EU enlargement, globalisation, and the need to deal with life conditions of society, including social affairs. A wide range of topics will be covered during the Conference by sections mainly devoted to economic statistics, social statistics, production and use of statistics and data quality.

The Conference will take place at the Congress Centre of the Czech National Bank, which is located in the centre of Prague. Johann Wolfgang Goethe called Prague the "prettiest gem in the stone crown of the world". At almost every step, you can be reminded of well known names not only of architects, builders, sculptors and painters who contributed to the beauty of Prague but also other artists, poets and composers who celebrated the city or found inspiration in it.

For more information, go to the Conference website: www.czso.cz/conference2004 or contact the Organisers at conference2004@gw.czso.cz .

V. XI International Symposium on Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA). 
Gilbert Saporta, President-Elect of IASC, is encouraging IASC to co-sponsor the 2005 ASMDA meeting, which will be held in Brest, France, May 25-27, 2005. The AMSDA aims to serve as the interface between Stochastic Modeling and Data Analysis and their real life applications particular in business, finance and insurance, management, production and reliability, biology and medicine. The Symposium 2005 will focus on new trends in theory, applications and software of Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis. 
For more information, go to the Conference website: http://asmda2005.enst-bretagne.fr.

VI. UCLA Alumni Hall of Fame. 
IASC President Stanley Azen received the UCLA School of Public Health Alumni Hall of Fame Award on April 19, 2004, for his research accomplishments and professional achievement. Considered one of the founding fathers of the Graduate Programs in biostatistics, epidemiology, molecular epidemiology and public health at the University of Southern California, Azen has had a hand in training countless graduates in the health profession. Azen also is actively involved in the design conduct and analysis of clinical trials in areas as disparate as cardiovascular disease and ophthalmology.

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	Editorial Address		Susan Starkings, Learning & Development Centre, South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7815 7455 Fax: +44 (0)20 7815 6464 E-mail: starkisa@lsbu.ac.uk
	President		Chris Wild, Department of Statistics & Mathematics, Education Unit,  The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.  Tel: +649 373 7599, Fax: +649 373 7018 E-mail: c.wild@auckland.ac.nz
	Website		http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/

FORTHCOMING IASE ACTIVITIES

Statistical Education Presentations at The International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-10)
As a part of ICME-10 to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 4-11, 2004, a set of sessions have been set aside to address issues related to research and development in the teaching and learning of probability and statistics. Jun Li of the Department of Mathematics at East China Normal University and Joe Wisenbaker of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Georgia, co-chairs of Topic Study Group 11, have brought together presentations across a wide range of issues including: The use of technology to enhance student learning; Efforts to understand how students learn about statistics and probability; Developing teachers' statistical knowledge; Distance education; Assessment strategies as a means of promoting learning; Efforts to introduce younger students to statistics and probability; and Developing statistical reasoning, thinking and literacy. 
As part of the programme, there will be four invited presentations by Joan Garfield (comparing expert and novice statistics teachers), Koeno Gravemeijer (looking at statistics concept development to aid in lesson design and classroom instruction), Mike Shaughnessey (investigating thinking in variation-rich contexts) and Jane Watson (Tasmanian research in chance and data). Other presentations and papers presented by distribution will enliven the discussions about these and other topics related to the teaching and learning about statistics and probability. 

ICME-10 also has the following regular lecturers in Statistical education:
Carmen Batanero (Statistics Education as a Field for Research and Practice), Rolf Biehler (Variation, co-variation, and statistical group comparison. Some results from epistemological and empirical research on technology supported statistics education), Margarida César (Come away with me: Statistics learning through collaborative work) and Jane M. Watson (Assessment in Statistics Education: Obstacle or Opportunity?).
For more information, see the Conference website: http://www.icme-10.dk/ .

IASE 2004 Research Round Table on Curricular Development in Statistics Education, Lund, Sweden, June 28-July 3, 2004
Plans are in place for the IASE 2004 Roundtable on Curricular Development in Statistics Education, which will be held at Lund Institute of Technology. The Roundtable addresses issues and concerns related to the curriculum at the elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels along with a strong research strand. Papers are reviewed by the Scientific Programme Committee, and a list of the set of papers is available. The Scientific Programme Committee is chaired by Gail Burrill (Michigan State University, United States) and consists of Dani Ben-Zvi (University of Haifa, Israel), Arthur Bakker (Freudenthal Institute, The Netherlands), Jean Claude Girard (Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de l'Academie de Lyon Centre, France), Mike Camden (Statistics New Zealand), Richard Scheaffer (University of Florida, United States), and Carmen Batanero (University of Granada, Spain). 
The Local Organising Committee, chaired by Lars Wahlgren, has secured support from Key Curriculum Press and from the Swedish Statistical Association. For Information about local arrangements, see the website: http://www.maths.lth.se/conferences/IASE2004/ .
The Conference promises to be stimulating and productive. Information about the proceedings will be available on the web. For more information, see http://hobbes.lite.msu.edu/~IASE_2004_Roundtable/ .

IASE Satellite Conference on Statistics Education and the Communication of Statistics, Sydney, Australia, April 4-5, 2005
This Satellite Conference on Statistics Education and the Communication of Statistics is jointly organised by the IASE and the Victorian Branch ( http://matilda.vu.edu.au/~ntd/statsvic/index.html ) of the Statistical Society of Australia ( http://www.statsoc.org.au/ ) and will immediately precede the ISI Session in Sydney ( http://www.tourhosts.com.au/isi2005/ ). It will give people the opportunity to enjoy presentations given by people who have a special interest in communicating databased results. There will be a number of invited speakers, as well as the opportunity for others to give contributed presentations.
The presentations are planned to include discussions of the main components in statistical communication and the relevance of statistical communication in the general education of citizens. A related idea is that we should be spending more time in our courses telling students how to present statistical findings to lay audiences who do not know technical aspects of statistics. This is a major stumbling block for the discipline - the people who understand the technical side have little training in how to make results understandable, and the people who are experts at presenting a finding often have no notion of how to extract information from data. Another related idea is that, when we do talk about graphical summary in our courses, we tend to omit use of it from our tests and examinations, since it is difficult to test. This assessment omission is another reason students do not learn to ‘communicate statistics’.

The approach will be non-technical, suitable for both a specialist and non-specialist audience who would like to learn how to better communicate the statistical ideas, which occur in their everyday and working lives. This meeting will be of interest to a wide cross section of society. These include: teachers, lecturers and teacher trainers; administrators in schools or elsewhere; people involved in numeracy education with an adult population; people from industry and commerce including policy makers, journalists, health professionals, finance and the law; researchers in statistical education and in probabilistic reasoning; others from the general population.
Possible topics are: Writing with numbers; Modern methods for graphical display; Quantitative Literacy and communication; Communicating educational statistics; and other areas involving communication of statistical results. It could involve presentations on topics such as the use of graphics calculators, computers and the Internet in statistics classes to help with communicating statistics; the training of teachers to teach methods of communicating statistical results and showing how the results from large studies and official statistics may be used in the classroom for statistical communications. 

The Programme Committee consists of 
Brian Phillips (Joint Chair, Australia http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/members/profile_view_ind.php?id=532 ), 
Kay Lipson (Joint Chair, Australia - http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/members/profile_view_ind.php?id=512 ), 
Larry Weldon (Canada - http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/members/profile_view_ind.php?id=563 ), 
Paul Darius (Belgium - http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/members/profile_view_ind.php?id=198 ) and 
Irena Ograjensek (Slovenia - http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/members/profile_view_ind.php?id=299 ). 
For more information on abstracts, papers, fees, accommodation and the social programme, see http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/ .
Submission deadline Abstracts: September 30, 2004 
Papers due: December 20, 2004

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IASE Activities at the 55^th Session of the ISI, Sydney, Australia, April 5-12, 2005
Chris Wild is the IASE representative to the ISI Programme Co-ordinating Committee for 55^th ISI Session, to be held in Sydney, Australia, April 5-12, 2005. The Invited Paper Meetings approved for the Sydney Session and to be sponsored or co-sponsored by the IASE are as follows: Reasoning about Variation; The use of Simulation in Statistics Education; Teaching Statistics Online; Statistics for Life: What are the Statistical Ideas or Skills that Matter most and why?; Research in Statistical Education; Teaching Bayesian Statistics; Challenges in the Teaching of Survey Sampling; Using History of Statistics to Enhance the Teaching of Statistics; Promotion of Statistical Literacy among Students; Quality Assurance in Statistics Education; Educating the Media on how best to Report Statistics; and Ethical Standards in Statistics Education.
For more information, contact Chris Wild at c.wild@auckland.ac.nz .

Working Cooperatively in Statistics Education
Salvador (Bahia), Brazil, July 2-7, 2006
http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/icots7 
Local Organisers: Pedro Alberto Morettin (Chair); Lisbeth K. Cordani, Pedro Silva, Clélia Maria C. Toloi and Wilton de Oliveira Bussab 
IPC Executive: Carmen Batanero (Chair), Susan Starkings (Programme Chair), Allan Rossman and Beth Chance (Editors of Proceedings), John Harraway (Scientific Secretary) and Lisbeth Cordani (Local Organisers Representative)

The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) and the International Statistical Institute (ISI) are organising the Seventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS-7), which will be hosted by the Brazilian Statistical Association (ABE) in Salvador (Bahia), Brazil, July 2-7, 2006.

The major aim of ICOTS-7 is to provide an opportunity for people from around the world, who are involved in statistics education, to exchange ideas and experiences, to discuss the latest developments in teaching statistics and to expand their network of statistical educators. The Conference theme emphasises the idea of cooperation, which is natural and beneficial for those involved in the different aspects of statistics education at all levels. For example, recent trends in educational psychology emphasise the role of Cooperative learning in statistics education. Cooperation between statistics teachers and researchers make statistics more enjoyable for students when a teacher can call on such real applications and research in statistics education is greatly enhanced when it is informed by classroom practice. Statistical agencies need the cooperation of statistical educators to communicate statistical ideas to citizens and they collaborate in the development of teaching resources based on official data. Global communication and increasing interest and respect for complementarities in education are leading to an increasing number of successful cooperative international research or educational programmes, including: Large scale statistical literacy comparative studies; Regional, National or International funded projects; International statistical education centres; International training programmes and conferences in statistics education.

We are very happy to work this time in collaboration with the Brazilian Statistical Association (ABE: http://www.redeabe.org.br/ ), a large (over 600 members) and active association. ABE runs its SINAPE Conferences every two years and publishes the Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics. Members of ABE have been involved in the Executive bodies of the ISI, IASE, Interamerican Statistical Institute, Biometric Society and other international associations.
We all hope ICOTS-7 will continue the scientific quality and interest of previous ICOTS and encourage you not to miss this event. We also hope you will be interested in attending ICOTS-7 and will not miss the chance to get more deeply involved with statistics education at an International level and, in particular, with Brazilian statisticians and statistics educators. More information is available from the IASE web page at http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/icots7 and from Carmen Batanero ( batanero@ugr.es ).

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Champions Sought for CensusAtSchool
CensusAtSchool is an international initiative aimed at advancing the cause of statistical education and statistical literacy at the school level (both elementary school and secondary/high school).
It seeks, among other things, to foster a positive attitude to statistics through using real data that is of compelling interest to students; to involve them in collecting data about themselves, improve their understandings of data gathering processes, their purpose and benefits to society; to improve data handling, data analysis and information technology skills; and to enable them to compare aspects of their own lives with those of their peers in other countries.

The modern CensusAtSchool, led by Professor Neville Davies, originated with the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education working together with the UK National Statistics Office. From the UK, the concept and basic format has spread to other countries (e.g. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa), a variant has been run in Italy, and there groups in still more countries at various stages of work towards getting a CensusAtSchool programme running.
It would be very beneficial for statistics education if it spread still further and it would also make international comparisons so much more interesting. So please think about what it might take to get CensusAtSchool started in your country.

For more information about WHY you might want to help and HOW you might help, see the article by Neville Davies and Doreen Connor at http://www.censusatschool.ntu.ac.uk/files/champions.doc .
You might also care to visit http://www.censusatschool.ntu.ac.uk/ and start exploring. 

IASE Website
Visit the site, become a member of the IASE, update your profile, communicate with IASE members and have a look at what is there. The website is http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/ .

International Statistical Literacy Project
Over the past 10 months, there have been many new items added to the pages of the International Statistical Literacy Project. A search engine has also been added. The best URL to use to start exploring the ISLP web pages is http://course1.winona.edu/cblumberg/islplist.htm . If you have web pages or other resources that you would like to see added to the ISLP web pages, please contact Carol Joyce Blumberg, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Winona State University, Winona MN 55987-5838, USA,
E-mail: cblumberg@winona.edu , Fax: +1-507-457-5376.

Assessment Resource Tools for Improving Statistical Thinking (ARTIST)
ARTIST is a USA based project, which is developing assessment resources for introductory statistics courses. Although the project is in its early stages, there is a comprehensive website http://www.gen.umn.edu/artist/index.html already up and running. The website gives an open invitation to participate in the ARTIST project. There are three possible ways in which you can become involved:
You can contribute assessment materials
You can become a pilot tester of items
You can inform the project on the types of assessment information you would like to see on the website.
For more information about the project or to get involved, please contact Joan Garfield, e-mail: jbg@umn.edu . 

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