Research group

Methodological Innovation: Survey Methods and Official Statistics

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Experts in the design and use of surveys, with particular relationships with official statistics, the use of administrative data sources, longitudinal surveys and modelling with survey data.

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This research group builds on a long tradition of work in design and analysis of surveys at Southampton, covering all the stages from specification and sampling, through consent and data collection, to processing (imputation, outlier detection and weighting) and modelling.

The group has strong links to official statistics in the UK and abroad, and has worked with the Office for National Statistics on methodology topics since 1995. It also has a wider role in survey methodology through organisation of networks and training delivery through the National Centre for Research Methods.   

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People, projects, publications and PhDs

People

Professor Danny Pfeffermann

Professor of Social Statistics

Research interests

  • Analytic inference from complex sample surveys ; Seasonal adjustment and trend estimation; Small area estimation; Inference under informative sampling and non-ignorable nonresponse with applications to small area estimation, observational studies and statistical matching; Mode effects and Proxy surveys,

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Mr Francesco Pantalone PhD

Lecturer in Official Statistics

Research interests

  • Computational Statistics
  • Official Statistics
  • Sampling Theory
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Professor Gabriele Durrant PhD

Prof of Social Stats & Survey Method

Research interests

  • survey data collection
  • survey methodology
  • statistical modelling

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Professor Li-Chun Zhang

Professor in Social Statistics

Research interests

  • Graph sampling
  • Analysis of integrated data
  • Statistical uses of administrative sources

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Dr Melike Oguz Alper

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Finite population sampling design and inference
  • Variance estimation of change in complex parameters under rotating panel surveys
  • Empirical likelihood inference when modelling complex survey data

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Professor Nikos Tzavidis PhD

Professor of Statistical Methodology

Research interests

  • Small Area Estimation and official statistics
  • Outlier robust inference; Quantile and M-quantile models
  • Geospatial data; Poverty mapping; Statistical inference under data aggregation and displacement

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Dr Olga Maslovskaya

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • All aspects of survey
  • Survey data collection
  • Data quality

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Professor Paul Smith

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Sampling and estimation methods in official statistics
  • Dual system (capture-recapture) estimation in official statistics
  • Price indices

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Professor Peter Smith

Professor in Social Statistics

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