2008 German Stata Users Group meeting

Announcement and call for papers

The sixth German Stata Users Group meeting will be held at the WZB Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, http://www.wzb.eu) on Friday, June 27, 2008. Anyone interested in Stata is invited to attend.

Presentations are sought on topics that include

• user-written Stata programs,
• case studies of research or teaching using Stata,
• discussions of data management problems,
• reviews of analytical issues, and
• surveys or critiques of Stata facilities in specific fields.

The conference language will be English because of to the international nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest speakers. (See http://www.stata.com/meeting/proceedings.html for the proceedings of other user group meetings.)

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract (max 200 words) by email to one of the academic organizers. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2008. Please keep your presentation to 20 minutes or shorter.

Registration and accomodations

Please travel at your own expense. A small conference fee will cover costs for coffee, teas, and luncheons. There will also be an optional informal meal at a restaurant in Berlin on Friday evening at additional cost.

You can enroll by contacting Anke Mrosek (anke.mrosek@dpc.de) by email or by writing, phoning, or faxing to

Anke Mrosek
Dittrich & Partner Consulting GmbH
Kieler Str. 17
42697 Solingen

Tel: +49 (0) 212 260 66 24
Fax:+49 (0) 212 260 66 66

Statue of Victoria, Berlin

Organizers

Johannes Giesecke (giesecke@wzb.eu) and Ulrich Kohler (kohler@wzb.eu) are organizing the academic program of the meeting.

The logistics are being organized by Dittrich and Partner (http://www.dpc.de), the distributor of Stata in several countries including Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary.