AAPOR 80th Annual Conference Call for Late-Breaking Abstracts

80th Annual AAPOR Conference

Reshaping Democracy’s Oracle: Transforming Polls, Surveys, and the Measurement of Public Opinion in the Age of AI

May 14 – 16, 2025

Call for Late-Breaking Papers, Posters, & Panels

Submission Deadline: Friday, March 14, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET

 

The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) is hosting its 80th Annual Conference at the Union Station Hotel in St. Louis, May 14 through Friday, May 16, 2025.
Our field and our data are constantly in motion with new research being conducted every day. To bring the most up-to-date research to the conference, AAPOR is introducing a Late-Breaking Submission period.  We welcome you to submit panel, paper, and poster abstracts across all of AAPOR’s conference tracks, listed below, as well as abstracts specific to the conference theme “Reshaping Democracy’s Oracle“.  We hope to have an event filled with invigorating conversations highlighting the highest standards of data quality and methods, as well as the promises and perils of AI in survey research.

 

Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in the premier forum for the exchange of advances in public opinion and survey research.

 

Submissions: The proposal submission form is unique to each submission type but generally requests author contact information, title, presentation track, keywords describing the content of the presentation, and an abstract of no more than 500 words. To promote diversity of thought within sessions, we encourage panel submissions to include people from multiple organizations.

 

All abstracts should be submitted electronically by Friday, March 14, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

 

Space on the program is limited. There will be some individual submissions that cannot be integrated into a session and will, unfortunately, not be accepted. Authors of individual papers have a greater chance of acceptance if they are also willing to be considered for a poster.  Decisions for acceptance will be sent the first week of April 2025.

 

Inquiries: Questions concerning the AAPOR conference or the proposal submission process should be directed to AAPOR Education Manager, Ryan Green, rgreen@aapor.org.

If you do not already have an account on AAPOR.org, you must create one to begin a submission. You do not need to be a member of AAPOR to create an account. The link to create an account can be found here. When prompted to log in, please click ‘Set Up an Account’ and follow the prompts.

All abstracts should be submitted electronically by Friday, March 14, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET

Space on the program is limited. There will be some individual submissions that cannot be integrated into a session and will, unfortunately, not be accepted. Authors of individual papers have a greater chance of acceptance if they are also willing to be considered for a methodological brief or poster.

Inquiries: All questions should be sent to rgreen@aapor.org.

Presentation Tracks:

AI, ML, and Data Science Methods

Example topics: applications of machine learning methods or artificial intelligence in social science research.

Attitudes and Opinions (Att)

Example topics: substantive issues and attitudes studied using survey research or other methods; attitudes towards the coronavirus pandemic, human rights, racial justice, immigration, LGBTQ issues, health care, taxes, race relations, police, civil rights, climate change, and other attitudes around justice, diversity, inclusion, and equity.

Big Data and Administrative Records
Example topics: analysis of social media or search engine data; combining administrative data with survey data

Data Collection Methods, Modes, Field Operations, and Costs (DataColl)

Example topics: Evaluating recruitment or data collection protocols; transitions from interviewer administered to other modes; survey modes, survey costs; contact tracing methods

Elections, Polling, and Politics (Elec) 

Example topics: voting behavior among diverse communities; drivers of vote preference; election poll methods; polling accuracy; voter files; exit polling; presidential approval.

Media, News and Information Sources (Media)

Example topics: types of news, media and information sources; new media; discrediting legitimate news sources; correlates of media viewing and consumption behaviors; effects of media on attitudes and opinions.

Multicultural, Multilingual, and Multinational Research (3MC)

Example topics: substantive findings from 3MC surveys; methodological issues in 3MC surveys.

Probability and Nonprobability Samples, Frames, and Coverage Errors (Samples)

Example topics: sampling frames; sampling techniques; comparison of probability and nonprobability samples; administrative data coverage properties.

Qualitative Research (QualRes)

Example topics: methodological insights from or about qualitative research methods; in-depth interviewing methods; focus groups; qualitative content analyses; mixed methods data collection; qualitative research among diverse communities.

Questionnaire Design and Interviewing (QuesDes)

Example topics: questionnaire design or formatting; visual design; interviewer effects; cognitive interviewing; response times; question characteristics.

Response Rates and Nonresponse Error (Nonresp)

Example topics: Nonresponse rates; nonresponse error; nonresponse-related paradata; adaptive and responsive design; incentive experiments; differential response patterns among diverse communities.

Research in Practice (ResPrac)

Example topics: data visualization; data security; writing successful RFPs; survey management; increasing the talent pipeline for public opinion research among diverse communities; other practical issues regarding survey data collection.

Statistical Techniques and Estimation (Stats)

Example topics: weighting and estimation; imputation; small-area estimation; Bayesian modeling; multi-level regression and post-stratification; variance estimation; analysis of complex survey data

Please consider the following when submitting your abstract:

Scheduling Conflicts

To minimize scheduling conflicts, the abstract submission forms will ask you to list any known conflicts during the May 14 – 16 conference dates. While we will make every attempt to accommodate scheduling conflicts, please be advised that in some instances, it may not be possible to avoid them. Requests must be received prior to the submission deadline of March 14, 2025.

Audio‐Visual Equipment

All meeting rooms will have projectors, screens, and laptops. Large rooms will have microphones.  All presenters will be asked to submit their slides before the conference. Instructions for presenters are forthcoming.

Confirmation

Submitters will receive automatic email confirmation of their submission within 5 minutes. Submitters who do not receive this confirmation should log back on to the submission site to verify their submission was entered correctly. The submitter is the primary contact person and is responsible for notifying all other co-authors of acceptance, rejection, scheduling, and other information AAPOR provides.

Review Process

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two peer reviewers and a final reviewer who assists the Conference Chair and Associate Conference Chair with making final decisions about abstracts for the specific presentation track and session format. We expect to send acceptance notifications by early-April 2025.

AAPOR Code of Ethics

All submissions that present original survey data must abide by the AAPOR Code of Professional Ethics and Practices by reporting, at a minimum, the information specified in Section III‐A of the AAPOR Code. Further, proposals should communicate work that authors expect to reach an acceptable completion stage before the conference (e.g., by the end of April 2025).