The International Association of Survey Statisticians

Aims and history

The International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS – AISE) was founded in 1973 as a section of the International Statistical Institute. It aims to promote the study and development of the theory and practice of sample surveys and censuses. It also aims to increase the interest in surveys and censuses among statisticians, among governments and the public in the different countries of the world. The IASS carries out its aims by means of:

• International meetings held every two years in conjunction with the International Statistical Institute. These meetings provide a forum for discussion of survey statistics. They include a number of sessions on recent advances in survey and census methodology, and their applications.
• Regional meetings or seminars devoted to specific aspects of surveys.
• Publications distributed to members on a regular basis or on request, and the opportunity for members to subscribe to certain journals at reduced rates.

Still today, many statisticians working outside of the survey field believe that our association is devoted to survey sampling solely. No doubt, sampling was, and still is, a major subject of ours. However, the most important reason for the creation of the IASS was to address major limitations of sampling theory. Those had been identified in articles written by P C Mahalanobis and W E Deming, the major one being that sampling theory was a theory for true values that did not take into consideration measurement errors.


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Professor Peter Lynn: President-Elect of the International Association of Survey StatisticiansISER's Professor of Survey Methodology is elected to prestigious international post

22 Jun 2015

The members of the International Association of Survey Statisticians have elected Professor Peter Lynn, Professor of Survey Methodology at ISER, as President-Elect.

Peter’s term of office will begin after the 2015 World Statistics Conference in July in Rio De Janiero and will run until 2017.

The International Association of Survey Statisticians aims to promote the study and development of the theory and practice of sample surveys and censuses. It also aims to increase the interest in surveys and censuses among statisticians, governments and the public in the different countries of the world.

The International Association of Survey Statisticians is an association of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), a non-profit, non-governmental organisation established in 1885