AAPOR Profile: Frank Newport
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Chapter Spotlight: PANJAAPOR
Thanks to all the hard work of our fantastic board the Pennsylvania/New Jersey chapter of AAPOR (PANJAAPOR) continues to grow stronger each year by having yet another record high turnout for our December event featuring Gary Langer of Langer Research. The event was held at Princeton University where there was a half hour of refreshments and networking followed by Gary providing a post mortem analysis of the election. All in all we had ~60 folks attend with almost half being non-members.
Membership and Chapter Relations Update
Membership and Chapter Relations Q&A with Dr. Frauke Kreuter
Frauke Kreuter is a German sociologist and statistician who works as a professor and Director of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology of the University of Maryland, College Park. She also holds a professorship at the University of Mannheim, and is Head of the Statistical Methods Research Department at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, Germany. Her research in survey methodology includes work on sampling error and observational error.
Understanding AAPOR’s Executive Council Nomination Process
On February 15, the newest slate of candidates for AAPOR’s Executive Council will be released to the membership in advance of voting which begins in early March. I am following a new tradition established last year by Michael Link to ensure transparency and continuity by providing you all a step by step look at how the nominations process unfolded this year. Given the importance of this process to our organization, I think it’s important that everyone understand how it works.
Visualizing the 2017 Conference Program
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AAPOR Behind the Scenes
Much of AAPOR’s activities take place behind the scenes. For example, AAPOR currently has four task forces operating—one on the future of telephone interviewing, one on election polling, one of the survey climate, and one on data falsification. In this month’s newsletter, I’d like to update you on the work of these task forces, and also bring you some news about the association’s very successful fundraising efforts in the last year. I think you’ll agree that there’s a lot of hard work going on!
AAPOR Profile: Eleanor Singer
When it comes to AAPOR, Eleanor Singer has pretty much done it all. She served on Council five times (which may be a record!)—twice as Councilor-at-Large, once as Conference Chair, once as Standards Chair, and as President in 1987-1988. She also edited Public Opinion Quarterly for 11 years, from 1975-1986. (In that role, she accepted my first POQ paper, with Wade Smith. I’ll always be grateful to her for that.) Before that, she served as the journal’s managing editor. She also edited a special issue of POQ on nonresponse bias in household surveys in 2006. No one has done as much for Public Opinion Quarterly as Eleanor has.
Chapter Spotlight: MAPOR
MAPOR had an amazing and incredibly busy 41st year! We just completed our Annual Conference on November 18 and 19, 2016. The conference featured 201 attendees, a Keynote Address from Scott Keeter of the Pew Research Center, a short course from Scott Crawford, and a Pedagogy Hour led by Sherry Emery of NORC. The conference also included two panels, our second Respondent-Interviewer Workgroup, and submissions from 43 different institutions (highlighting that the Midwest is definitely a state of mind!).
Membership and Chapter Relations Update
The annual AAPOR Membership Drive is in full swing! Thank you to those of you who have renewed your membership already. If you have not yet had the chance to renew, please do so today. You can renew online at: https://register.aapor.org/. This will allow you to continue to enjoy your membership so you can continue to enjoy all of the benefits of AAPOR membership, such as:
Transparency Initiative Update
It has been two years since AAPOR’s Transparency Initiative began accepting members in fall 2014. Now with more than 80 members, the TI is focusing on continuing our outreach for new members, conducting current members’ biennial reviews, presenting research at conferences, and educating the public and the survey community on the importance of transparency and disclosure. As part of our continued outreach, we would like to focus on one of our charter members – National Research Center – who joined the TI in January 2015.