The international conference on Small Area Estimation (SAE 2014) will take place from 3rd to 5th September 2014, and will be devoted to the methodology of small area statistics, which, following arrangements made by the European Working Group on Small Area Estimation, will be organized by the Chair of Statistics at the Poznan University of Economics. The conference will be co-organized by the Central Statistical Office (CSO) in Warsaw and the Statistical Office in Poznań. Prof. Janusz Witkowski, The President of CSO and Prof. Marian Gorynia, the Rector of the Poznan University of Economics have taken Honorary Patronage of the conference.

The idea behind the SAE 2014 conference is to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences between statisticians, scientists and experts from universities, statistical institutes, research centres as well as other government agencies, local government and private companies involved in developing and applying the methodology of regional surveys, in particular small area estimation. The Poznań conference is another in the series of conferences (Jyväskylä 2005, Piza 2007, Elche 2009, Trier 2011), intended to combine theoretical considerations and practical applications of SAE in public statistics.