The 2024 FCSM Research and Policy Conference provides a forum for experts and practitioners from around the world to discuss and exchange current methodological knowledge and policy insights about topics of current and critical importance to federal agencies.

The conference will feature presentations that address advances in credible and accurate survey and statistical methodologies from both research and policy perspectives. Topics include the following which are of importance to the Federal Statistical System:

  • Applied statistics
  • Bayesian methods
  • Data collection
  • Data dissemination
  • Data linkage
  • Data processing
  • Data quality
  • Data science
  • Establishment surveys
  • Estimation and inference
  • Privacy & disclosure control
  • Questionnaire design
  • Statistical computing
  • Survey sampling & weighting