Researchers from the U.S. Census Bureau, along with many other survey research professionals across the nation, will present findings at the 72nd annual American Association for Public Opinion Research Conference on May 18-21, 2017, in New Orleans, La. This year’s theme is “Embracing Change and Diversity in Public Opinion and Social Science Research.”
Census Bureau staffers will present research findings on a spectrum of topics including:
Tech Showcase: Accessibility of Web Surveys on Mobile Devices
Designing response options for touch in mobile Web surveys
Does typographic cueing improve the processing of information from survey questions on a mobile device?
Dropdown response options in mobile surveys
Optimal field label location for mobile surveys
Measuring Tribal Enrollment among American Indians and Alaska Natives: A Cognitive Pretest of Multiple Approaches
2020 Census Pretesting Research on Race, Tribe, and Tribal Enrollment for American Indians and Alaska Natives: A Synthesis
Writing in Race: Cognitive Testing of Experimental 2020 Race and Ethnicity Questions
Writing in Tribe: Focus Group Pretesting of Methods to Collect Race and Tribe Data with Very Diverse American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
Central and South American Indigenous, American Indian or Hispanic/Latino Respondents? Navigating racial identity categories in U.S. Census Forms
What influences willingness to participate in passive mobile data collection?
Decennial Census Knowledge & Participation across Hard-to-Count Sub-Groups
Development of Doorstep Introductory Survey Messages for Use across Languages: New Advancements towards Best Practices
Using Paired Cognitive Interviews to Assess the Accuracy of Proxy Responses
Using Online Panels to Approximate Populations of Interest for Cognitive Testing
Remote Cognitive Interviewing: An alternative to traditional in-person cognitive testing
Bilinguals as cognitive interview respondents: Identifying potential data quality problems and refining recruitment criteria
Transparency and Qualitative Research: Multilingual Cognitive Testing
Examining mode effects in a national survey of schools, principals, and teachers
Screening for Specific Experiences and Characteristics: Striking the Balance between False Positives and False Negatives
Non-Specific Reference Periods in Survey Questions: Understanding Survey Responses about
Behaviors in a "Typical Week" Versus "Last Week"
Optimal response formatting for fixed-field data items
Categorizing Type of Health Insurance Coverage in the Redesigned Current Population Survey
Internet and technology usage by households applying for free and reduced-price school meals
Does It Matter? Impact of Confidentiality Pledges on Web Survey Response
Do they read it? Using paradata to evaluate the extent to which respondents attend to confidentiality pledge language
Conducting Online Joint Cognitive and Usability Testing of Messaging about Privacy and Confidentiality Protections
Public Attitudes on Federal Statistics: What are respondents really thinking?
Do People Understand It? Cognitive Interviewing Assessment of Confidentiality Pledges for Household Surveys
PANEL: The U.S. Census Bureau’s Planning Database as a Free Tool for Survey Practitioners: Applications of the Planning Database in Government, Academia and the Private Sector
Developing Estimates of Sampling Variability for the Planning Database’s Low Response Score
This multiday conference is a forum for Census Bureau staffers to present and discuss their research on public opinion and survey research for professional discussion. Please visit the American Association of Public Opinion Research annual conference page for more information on the papers and posters to be presented at the conference, including a preliminary program with abstracts and to learn more about Census Bureau researchers, visit our Researcher Profiles.
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