Short Courses for the 2020 Conference have been finalized and are as follows. Timing of the courses at the conference is TBD.
- Text Messaging for Conducting Survey Interviews (Frederick Conrad, Andrew Hupp, and Michael Schober)
- Employing Text Analytics for Survey Data (Joe Sutherland)
- Cognitive Interviewing and Psychometrics for Improving Validity of Survey Questions (Jose-Luis Padilla)
- Quick Lessons for Communicating and Visualizing Quantitative Information (Regina Nuzzo)
- Biosocial Data Collection and Analysis (Colter Mitchell and Jessica Faul)
- A Practical Introduction to Using Voter Registration Databases for Survey Research: From Sampling to Hybrid Estimation (Masahiko Aida and Jonathan Robinson)
- Essential Tools for Working in R for Public Opinion and Survey Researchers (Brady West)
- Doing Reproducible Research (Alexandru Cernat)
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We received 891 abstract proposals, and >25% more members than in the past volunteered to serve as peer reviewers! Thank you for making the 2020 Conference program strong. My team and I carefully read each proposal and the peer review results, and then integrated abstracts into sessions. Once AAPOR completes the scheduling, notifications will go out. In the meantime, I’d love your help with planning AAPOR's 75th anniversary celebration:
We need you because the people of AAPOR make us strong!
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MAPOR recently convened its 44th annual conference, our largest ever at 256 attendees! The conference featured a keynote address on "Politics, Privacy and Data for Policy in U.S. Censuses" by Barbara Anderson of the University of Michigan. We also had a pedagogy hour presented by Justine Bulgar-Medina of NORC at the University of Chicago on "The Measurement of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Survey Research," as well as a short course on "Survey Weighting" by Brady West of the University of Michigan. The conference also featured four different panels, a working group, and papers and posters presented from almost 50 different institutions based on first authorship alone. We were very pleased to introduce Tom W. Smith of NORC at the University of Chicago as our newest MAPOR fellow this year, in addition to new and continued student-focused activities.
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When I teach students about professional organizations and why they should care about them, I explain that AAPOR is a center of the science in our field through the annual conference and the journals. I describe how AAPOR serves us as practitioners by giving us a forum in which to deliberate about our aspirations – expressed in the codes of ethics and conduct, standards of practice, the Transparency Initiative, and more – and to monitor the environment in which we work.
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NYAAPOR has gotten off to a great start for the 2019-20 year!
In September, NYAAPOR conducted a “Writing Better Questionnaires” session with David Harris author of the Complete Guide to Writing Questionnaires. Registration for the session included a copy of his book.
NYAAPOR recently completed a membership survey and is already transforming the organization based on insights from the survey. Some of the changes we’ve made include:
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The AAPOR Executive Council Call for Nominations are open! Do you know someone whose expertise and values should be represented on the AAPOR Council? Would you personally like to play a leadership role in AAPOR and have a voice at the table? Each year we ask the AAPOR community to nominate qualified candidates for service on AAPOR’s Executive Council. Council members represent the general membership and provide leadership and oversight for AAPOR’s policies, finances and activities.
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Mark Hugo Lopez is the director of global migration and demography research at Pew Research Center and a leading expert in the field of Latino demographic research and in Latino survey research. Mark’s work at Pew Research involves leading the planning of their research agenda on international demographic trends, international migration, US immigration trends, and the US Latino community. He previously oversaw Pew’s Hispanic trends research group.
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Recently, AAPOR Council has been asked how the association selects locations for the AAPOR Annual Conference and what options are available for us to change future locations. Selecting the right location for the conference is a complex process where Council deliberates the merits of various locations. This deliberation is informed by member feedback, both verbally and from the member survey, as well as by data from past conferences.
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The American Association for Public Opinion Research invites applications for the position of Editor (or Co-Editor) of Survey Practice.
Survey Practice is an editor-reviewed Open Access e-journal published by AAPOR that aims to provide information on hot topics in survey research and public opinion that is useful to survey and public opinion practitioners, survey researchers, and those interested in survey and polling methods. The articles in Survey Practice emphasize useful and practical information designed to enhance survey quality by providing a forum to share advances in practical survey methods, current information on conditions affecting survey research, and interesting features about surveys and people who work in survey research.
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