A member of AAPOR for 16 years, René Bautista is a Senior Research Scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago, where he has worked since 2010, and recently became the Director of the General Social Survey (GSS). He earned master’s and doctoral degrees from the Department of Survey Research and Methodology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, after earning a bachelor’s in Political Science from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico. This year, he completed his term as Chair for the AAPOR Standards Committee (part of the Executive Council), and has one year left on his term as Associate Editor for Public Opinion Quarterly.
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The Transparency Initiative is pleased to report that it is closing in on 100 members as we enter our seventh year! New applications to the TI continue to arrive on a consistent basis, and those on the committee work hard to review new applicants as well as perform biennial evaluations. The commitment to methodological transparency shines in the work of the committee and TI members who approach their work from across the research spectrum. Committee members bring to the TI their experience in the worlds of non-profit and commercial research, as well as from government and academic settings. As research methodologies continue to evolve, the TI remains vigilant in ensuring that rigor and transparency defines the public face of its members regardless of mode or sampling frame.
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The Standards Committee will be busy this summer working on a revised conduct policy and a revised code of professional ethics and practices.
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We had 940 registrants for the conference, including almost 7000 total logins to the desktop interface, about 450 users of the mobile app, and over 1,000,000 downloads of slides on the mobile app! According to paradata from the desktop version, the most viewed titles were the all-attendee kickoff session on public opinion and COVID-19, the Morris Hansen lecture by Roger Tourangeau, and the presidential address by President Nora Cate Schaeffer. We had participants from all over the US and all over the world, with the most common countries for participants outside the US being Canada and Germany.
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First, thank you to everyone who made AAPOR’s virtual conference a success. We had 940 registered attendees, which far exceeded our expectations. While it was a disappointment to not be able to meet in person as AAPOR has done for each of the 74 previous years, it was gratifying to see so many people participate in AAPOR’s first ever virtual conference.
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Friends and colleagues are saddened to learn of the passing of Pearl R. Zinner in June of this past year, at the age of 99. A New Yorker born and bred, Pearl Zinner joined NORC in 1951, first working out of the New York office as an interviewer at an hourly wage of 50 cents, moving through the survey department ranks, and becoming its director from 1963 until it closed operations in early 1985. Pearl worked under Directors Clyde Hart, Peter Rossi, Norman Bradburn (3 or 4 times), Jim Davis, Ken Prewitt, and Robert Michael, and Presidents Phil DePoy and Craig Coelen. She eventually served as Special Assistant to the President, where her experience, good nature, and attention to detail were particularly valuable.
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PANJAAPOR is celebrating another great year of events. Our annual spring event took place last May, hosted by Drexel University. Dr. Jana Hirsch (Drexel University School of Public Health) presented information on her research to measure gentrification in Philadelphia and to understand how residents think about and perceive neighborhood change and its effect on their health and well-being.
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Focusing on student and professional researchers in the Western region of the United States, PAPOR held several in-person and virtual events in 2019. Monitor AAPOR-net for more information on our two premier in-person events of 2020 – the June mini-conference in the Bay Area (where we highlight presentations from the National AAPOR conference) and the PAPOR Annual Conference December 10th and 11th in San Francisco.
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Ineke Stoop is a fairly new member of AAPOR, but a long-standing part of the European survey community. Until her retirement in May 2019, she was Head of Methodology at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP and was the Deputy Director Methodological for the European Social Survey (ESS). She also was Chair of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC), and an advisory member of Eurostat. She taught classes and published works on survey design, nonresponse, and comparative surveys. And she is sharing that wealth of experience with AAPOR, as a part of the AAPOR/WAPOR Task Force on Quality of Comparative Surveys.
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The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), congratulates The Center for Opinion Research on becoming a Member of the AAPOR Transparency Initiative (TI). By joining the TI, their organization is supporting our mutual goal of more effective disclosure of research methods by all organizations.
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