July 16-18, 2014 Postal Square Building, Washington, DC
CALL FOR PRESENTERS:
2014 Consumer Expenditure Survey Microdata Users'
Workshop
Contact the CE Workshop Team • CE_Symposium_Workshop_2014@bls.gov •
http://www.bls.gov/cex/csxannualworkshop.htm • (202) 691-6900
Have you used the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) in your work? More specifically, have you used the
public-use microdata files from the CE in research you have conducted? If so, we would like to invite you to
present your work at the upcoming 9th annual CE Microdata Users’ Workshop, to be held July 16-18, 2014,
following the half-day CE Survey Methods Symposium on July 15. Starting this year, the CE program would like
to post accepted presentations on the BLS website, unless the submitting author specifies otherwise. If you
have any questions or concerns about this, please contact the team at or before the time you submit your
proposal.
We are seeking presentations of up to 30 minutes by users of the CE data for the workshop. There are no
limits to the areas of research or degree of sophistication of the papers we seek. They can be descriptive or
applied. They can present simple hypothesis testing or elegant model building. Work in progress is as
welcome as finished research. However, when preparing the presentation, please note that the emphasis
should be on how the data were used, questions or problems encountered, and similar discussion. Results of
the research are an important, and perhaps necessary, component of these presentations; nevertheless, the
emphasis sought is on application.
While we cannot offer any honoraria to presenters, the workshop is free of charge to all who come. Past
workshops have averaged about 50 attendees, so you can anticipate a significant audience for your
presentation. In addition, previous workshop attendees have cited these sessions consistently among their
favorites, especially the presentations giving practical examples of how the data can be used in research.
If you would like to present at the workshop, please complete the attached submission form, and send it to
the proposal review team (CE_Symposium_Workshop_2014@bls.gov). If for any reason you are unable to fill
in the form, or if you require additional space, you may also send your submission in the form of an e-mail, as
long as the topics requested in the submission form are clearly identified and addressed.
If you have a colleague who might be interested in presenting, please forward this invitation. Also please note
that the workshop is an excellent forum for graduate students to gain experience presenting their work, and
to get helpful comments on research in development, including dissertation proposals or theses in progress.
If you would like to be part of the 2014 CE Microdata Users’ Workshop program or have any questions about
the workshop, please contact us by May 14, 2014.
