Contributed Call for Submissions opens April 1 – May 31!
International Conference on Methods for Surveying and Enumerating
Hard-to-Reach Populations
October 31–November 3, 2012
Marriott New Orleans at the Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana,
U.S.A.
The H2R 2012 conference will bring together survey methodologists, sociologists,
statisticians, demographers, ethnographers, and other professionals from around
the world to present new and innovative techniques for surveying hard-to-reach
populations.
Addressing both the statistical and survey design aspects of including hard-to-reach groups,
researchers will report findings from censuses, surveys, and other research related to the
identification, definition, measurement, and methodologies for surveying and enumerating
undercounted populations.
A selection of contributed papers will be published in a peer-reviewed issue of the Journal of Official Statistics.
Paper and panel topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Identifying, Defining, and Measuring the Hard-to-Reach (H2R)
Defining H2R populations
Measuring undercounts for H2R groups
Improving measurement with administrative records
Sampling H2R populations
Techniques and Methodologies
Recruitment methods
Targeting the H2R
Use of social marketing and outreach campaigns
Overcoming language and literacy barriers
Use of community-based organizations
Dealing with complex living and housing situations
Tracking and tracing H2R populations
H2R Subpopulations
Racial minorities
Immigrant populations
Indigenous populations
Highly mobile and migrant populations
Homeless and refugee populations
Sexual minorities
Populations affected by natural disasters
Populations in zones of armed conflict
Stigmatized populations
Cross-cultural similarities and differences in H2R populations
Linguistic and cultural minorities