AAPOR Annual Award Winner

"Kathy Frankovic possesses a rare combination of academic intellect and media awareness, which she has used as the heart and soul of CBS News polling," said AAPOR President Richard Kulka, describing the winner of AAPOR's lifetime achievement award. (more)  

The winner of the 2008 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award was Mick P. Couper for demonstrating and advocating the use of paradata by survey researchers as a tool for understanding the behavior of survey respondents. (more)

The 2008 Policy Impact Award was awarded to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) at the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in recognition of their extraordinary, long-term group effort in contributing timely data and research that has informed U.S. health care policy decisions. (more)

Robert M. Groves and Mick P. Couper won the 2008 AAPOR Book Award for "Nonresponse in Household Interview Surveys", recognized as having had a lasting influence on the science of survey research.