AAPOR is presenting three webinars in the coming months! Click the link to learn more and to register. The June webinar is “Cell Phones: Current Practice and the Future of Telephone Interviewing.” The July webinar is “A Truthful Art: Effective Communication with Charts, Maps and Infographics.” The September webinar is “Extending the Total Survey Error Perspective to Multiple-Surveys and Big Data.” Be on the lookout for the October webinar on nonprobability samples, the November professional development webinar on publishing and the December webinar on smartphone surveys!
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If I dare say so myself, the 2016 AAPOR Conference was one of the best. Our conference in Austin was the largest ever in terms of number of presentations submitted, and in the number of attendees. We expanded the conference to allow for no less than 100 breakout sessions. We continued a great tradition of new attendees (275) through a call for attendance to data science programs, local Texas schools and organizations, and other outreach efforts, and made a particular effort to be welcoming to newcomers via an expanded docent program, meet and greets, and other new social events. Our efforts to improve moderator and presenter quality I believe resulted in the strongest collection of presentations ever compiled at an AAPOR conference, which were nicely organized by tracks for the first time.
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Our Coordinating Committee continues to build and develop AAPOR’s Transparency Initiative. We recently completed a TI member survey to learn more about what participating organizations think about their involvement. We were pleased with members’ overall positive reactions to the Transparency Initiative. This month, we’re sharing some of the many favorable comments that were volunteered by some of those respondents. The full survey results will be released at the AAPOR conference in May.
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Is AAPOR 2016 in Austin, TX your first time at the conference? Are you not sure what to expect? Or do you just want more information on AAPOR2016 and Austin itself? The Student and Early Career Engagement Subcommittee has just what you need: The Guide for New Attendees!
Use the guide to find student and early career professional-specific activities at the conference and decide what the best ways for you to network at the conference are. The guide can help you decide that! Need help making the most of your trip to Austin? The guide has information just for you!
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The AAPOR 2016-2017 Executive Council election closed on April 2 and approximately 32 percent of eligible AAPOR members voted, including first-time participation by our student members.
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May is a big month for AAPOR – the annual conference AND lots of opportunities for new volunteers to get involved with AAPOR!Getting ready for May – Volunteer!
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It has been a year unlike no other in the world of survey and public opinion research. New data gathering and analytical techniques continue to grow and develop at breakneck speed. The TCPA has impacted all who conduct telephone research. Perhaps the most interesting primary season on record has pollsters busier than ever. Shifting public sentiment on a range of issues are evolving quickly in an ever changing world. Challenges in measurement arise as the world gets ever more complex, and new opportunities to mine administrative and other big data open new paths of measurement. Given so many developments in so many corners of our field, what is a survey researcher to do?
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We are just a few weeks from AAPOR’s Annual Conference in Austin, TX (May 12-15th) and I know all of us are busy preparing for a great week of learning, sharing, and socializing with our colleagues. As part of my own preparation for the conference and giving this year’s Presidential Address, I recently finished reading ALL (yes, all) the past presidential addresses. Those of you who know me know that I am THAT kind of person – the kind who needs to read them all to make sure I didn’t miss anything!
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AAPOR has historically been a very welcoming conference. While there are exceptions, AAPOR has traditionally accepted about five of every six submissions (the five year average rejection rate being 16%). This year, however, we had an all-time high number of submissions. Adding to the challenge was strong feedback from our members that sessions with six papers was not as rewarding and effective as sessions with five (methodological brief sessions excepted).
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