GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences has put out a call for papers for the 2nd European User Conference (March, 31 - April, 1, 2011) in Mannheim.

The conference will cover various statistical data research and methodological issues regarding the European labour market, and they invite papers from the fields of economics, politcs, health and sociology. Abstracts are due by the 31st of October.

The following information was provided by Gesis.org

The 2nd European User Conference for EU-LFS and EU-SILC, organized by the German Microdata Lab, GESIS, in cooperation with Eurostat, will provide researchers with the opportunity to present and discuss their work. In addition to fostering the discussion within the research community on both substantive and methodological issues, the conference offers researchers the opportunity to give feedback to the European Statistical System. Given that the legal bases for EU-LFS and EU-SILC will be revised in the near future the conference offers the unique possibility to discuss needs and wants of the research community with Eurostat.

Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political science, public health and sociology) who use either EU-LFS or EU-SILC micro data are encouraged to participate and to submit an abstract. Substantive topics may include, among others, all aspects of the European labour market, living conditions, migration, income inequalities, poverty and social exclusion. Methodological topics may include e.g. questions of data quality, cross-national and inter-temporal comparability, and statistical modeling.

All presentations must be comparative and include data from at least two countries.

SUBMISSIONS:

The deadline for submissions of abstracts is October 31, 2010. Please send your submission to the local organizers of the conference:
Christof Wolf ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Heike Wirth ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

Abstracts should not be longer than 1000 words; the abstract should be informative, indicate the dataset(s) used and the countries analyzed.
The submitters will be notified by January 15, 2011, whether their paper was accepted for presentation or not.

For any further questions please contact the local organizers and visit the conference webpage at
http://www.gesis.org/forschung-lehre/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/european-user-conference-2/

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