We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Special Issue of METRON “ITACOSM 2023 - New Challenges for sample surveys: innovation through tradition” mainly intended to collect contributions presented at the 8^th ITAlian COnference on Survey Methodology (ITACOSM 2023), held at the University of Calabria (Italy), from 7 to 9 June, 2023.

Guest Editors

Pier Francesco Perri (University of Calabria)

Fulvia Mecatti (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Daniela Marella (Sapienza University of Rome)

The submission deadline is October 31, 2023 and all the details of the Special Issue are available here.

Dear participant,

The conference is approaching, and below you will find some useful information.

The conference dinner will be held at Hotel Fortino Napoleonico, Portonovo, Via Poggio, 166, 60129 - Ancona (AN) on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at 8:30 pm.

Tickets for the social dinner are priced at 60 euros per person and must be purchased before the beginning of the conference (i.e., by June 17, 2023) through a bank transfer to:

SIS, Società Italiana di Statistica

Fineco Bank

IBAN: IT78O0301503200000003783359

SWIFT code: FEBIITM2

Please ask your bank to make the transfer at no cost for the recipient.

Payment reference: SIS2023, First Name and Family Name, SOCIAL DINNER.

Please send a copy of the payment to "società italiana di statistica" <sis@sis-statistica.it>.

The receipt will be issued by the Italian Statistical Society as "payment for social activities related to social dinner," including the date and place.

On Wednesday morning, during the registration session, the tickets for the social dinner will be distributed to those who have paid for it.

On Wednesday evening, at 7:30-7:45 pm, a bus transfer service to the social dinner venue will be available from Piazza Cavour (a 2-minute walk from the conference venue).

Thank you for your cooperation, and we look forward to meeting you in person.

Best regards,

The Organizing Committee

The ITACOSM2023 Book of Abstracts is now available here.

The final version of ITACOSM2023 program is now available here.

Dear all,

as you know, papers accepted for the "contributed sessions" will be presented first as a 5' presentation (a speedy-talk, during which you may
present framework, key-ideas, main results and their meaning/implication). For each contributed session there will be a discussant that will stimulate and
coordinate a 30' debate at the end of all speedy talks. The discussion will continue at the "exhibition corner for contributed sessions”
after the presentations during the coffee-break following the session. To this end,  we strongly recommend authors
to prepare also a poster in A1 format, which measures 59.4 x 84.1 cm (23 x 33 inches) in portrait orientation.
If an A1 poster is not possible, up to eight A4 sheets can be used instead.
There are 10 available corners for displaying posters, with a maximum of 4 posters per corner (two on each side).
Poster should be fixed the before the beginning of session and removed immediately after lunch (for morning presentation) or at the end of the day
(for afternoon presentation).

The Faculty offers an external printing service at the “Centro Copie Economia Univpm- Ancona”, which can print A4 and A3 size PDF documents.
The cost for an A4 black and white copy is €0.04, while a color copy costs €0.40. The price for an A3 black and white copy is €0.08 and €0.80 for a color copy.

You can also send your file to the following email address: centrocopieeco@libero.it.

To shed light upon the above-mentioned issues, the Committee invites submissions of contributed paper/poster on the following topics:

1. Bayesian statistics
2. Categorical data analysis
3. Classification and discrimination
4. Computational Statistics
5. Data science ethics
6. Data Visualization and graphical representation
7. Economics, econometrics and markets
8. Educational data
9. Environmental statistical models
10. Functional Data Analysis
11. Futures Studies
12. Health statistics
13. Impact evaluation
14. Indicators
15. Latent variable models
16. Migration
17. Model-based clustering
18. Multidimensional data analysis
19. Multivariate statistics
20. Nonparametric methods
21. Population studies
22. Sustainability assessment
23. Sampling methods
24. Social statistics
25. Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics
26. Statistical learning
27. Statistical models
28. Survey data analysis
29. Time Series
30. Tourism statistics
31. Well-being

A short paper (from 4 to 6 pages) must be submitted to the Scientific Program Committee by February 28, 2023. Guidelines for short paper format will be available on the Conference web site. The papers received by the deadline will be peer-reviewed, and the notification of acceptance will be issued by April 8, 2023.

Accepted papers will   be   presented  at  the Meeting  and  published  in  the   Book   of   Short Papers, with ISBN, edited by members of Local Organizing and Scientific Committee.

THE SIS 2023 INTERNATIONAL MEETING – Statistical Learning, Sustainability and Impact Evaluation – will be held at the "Giorgio Fuà" Faculty of Economics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche from 21 to 23 June 2023. The Opening Session will take place on 20 June 2023 at 6:00 pm, followed by a round table and welcome cocktails for all SIS2023 participants.

On 20 June 2023 from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, a short course on Composite Indicators will be held. Further information on the training course will be available soon on the website (link to be updated).