ITACOSM is a bi-annual international conference organized by the Survey Sampling Group (S2G) of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) whose aim is promoting the scientific discussion on the developments of theory and application of survey sampling methodologies in the fields of economics, social and demographic sciences, of official statistics and in the studies on biological and environmental phenomena. The conference will be held in Perugia, Italy from 8 to 10 June 2022.

Survey researchers and practitioners have always combined data from various data sources (auxiliary data from Censuses, Administrative registers, GIS data) to enhance sampling designs and estimation. Statistical data integration represents the new frontier of combining information from representative samples with data from multiple sources some of which may have uncontrolled selection mechanisms (non-probability samples, big data, smartphone data, integrated register data). ITACOSM2022 will provide a showcase for methods and applications that combine sources of data for better sampling strategies using classical survey methods or new data science tools such as Machine Learning methods.

ITACOSM2022 will include plenary (keynote) sessions on very relevant themes, specialized (invited) sessions on specific topics, and contributed sessions.

The Conference will be preceded by a one-day SHORT COURSE on “Survey Data Integration” held by Prof. Jae-Kwang Kim (Iowa State University) on 7 June in Assisi, Palazzo Bernabei.

LIST OF SPEAKERS (provisional)

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Jae-Kwang Kim (Iowa State University)

Alessandra Petrucci (Past S2G President, University of Florence)

Peter Van Der Heijden (University of Southampton)

Anne Ruiz-Gazen (Toulouse School of Economics)

Confirmed Invited Speakers

David Haziza (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Roberto Cerina (Data Analytics and Digitalisation, Maastricht University)

Yves Tillé (Université de Neuchâtel)

Jean Francois Beaumont (Statistics Canada)

Li–Chun Zhang (University of Southampton, Statistics Norway, University of Oslo)

Mark S. Handcock (UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles)

Hamida Seba (Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France)

Shu-Hui Hsieh (Center for Survey Research, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Daniel Oberski (Utrecht University)

Enrico Fabrizi (Università Cattolica)

F. Jay Breidt (Colorado State University and NORC)

Tiziana Tuoto (Italian National Statistical Office)

Sander Scholtus (Statistics Netherlands)

Davide Di Cecco (Sapienza University of Rome)

Andrea Tancredi (Sapienza Universityof Rome)

Mehdi Dagdoug (Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté)

Andrea Neri (Banca d’Italia)

Paul Smith (University of Southampton)

Claudia De Vitiis (Italian National Statistical Office)

Alessia Naccarato (University of Roma Tre)

Yael Feinstein (Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel)

Louisa Blackwell (UK Office for National Statistics)

Donatella Zindato (Italian National Statistical Office)

Jean D. Opsomer (WESTAT, Vice-President)

Changabo Wu (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Michael Elliott (University of Michigan)

Natalie Shlomo (Manchester University)

Setareh Ranjbar (Lausanne University Hospital)