James Burton, William Davie, and Scott Scheleur, US Census Bureau The Census Bureau’s mission is to serve as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people, places, and economy. This article gives a brief introduction to the Census Bureau’s economic surveys and how they work together to help measure the health of the […]
Kevin Foster, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Surveys play an important role in monetary policy decision-making in the Federal Reserve System. While Fed policy makers have always relied on surveys conducted by federal statistical agencies, more recently, they are relying on surveys conducted by their own Fed staff. These internally administered surveys have the advantages […]
Katherine Blackburn, RTI Y. Patrick Hsieh, PhD, RTI Chris Ellis, RTI In March 2022, the Census Bureau, with support from RTI International, published the first edition of the Emergency Economic Information Collection (EEIC) Question Bank, consisting of a total of 173 unique questions, accessible at https://tinyurl.com/EEICQBank. The Question Bank is the culmination of a year […]
Yun Kim, MPH, Statistician, ICF Ronaldo Iachan, PhD, Senior Fellow, ICF The National School COVID-19 Prevention Study (NSCPS) invited a nationally representative and longitudinal sample of public schools to assess the mitigation actions taken in the schools and the COVID-19 infection among students. A stratified random sample of 1,600 schools was selected and invited to […]
Pamela Waite, decisionanalyst.com In 25+ years of qualitative research with healthcare professionals, concept testing has proven to be the least favorite interview objective of theirs. I’ve heard, “I’m not an art director,” and “I really don’t like these types of interviews,” numerous times. In many cases this objective has elicited eyerolls, sighs, and groans. It […]
Robyn Rapoport, EVP – Health Care, Public Policy Research & Strategic Initiatives, SSRS Darby Steiger, Director of Qualitative Research & Survey Design, SSRS SSRS has been conducting a wide range of research over the past 25+ years to study the health and healthcare experiences of the general population, Medicare and Medicaid recipients, the uninsured, and […]
Urban Landreman, Hennepin County Hennepin County (Minnesota) Public Health has administered the Survey of the Health of All the Population and the Environment (SHAPE) [www.Hennepin.us/SHAPE] every four years since 1998. The survey includes questions on a wide range of health topics. Historically, approximately 10,000 residents respond to the SHAPE survey. A key goal of SHAPE […]
Alyssa Haskins, The Harris Poll Sample management in the digital age presents a new set of complex challenges. While the benefits from a highly networked supplier landscape are numerous, the scale and diversity of sources is extraordinary. With these, the industry has gained greater liquidity and transparency in the ecosystem. Programmatic (i.e., computer driven) delivery […]
By: Mario Callegaro, Google The use of paradata, also recently called survey logs or log data, can be extremely powerful to detect and remediate data quality in online surveys especially in the prestest phase. Not all paradata that we can collect tell us about data quality, but for the focus of this article we only […]
By: Anna Brown, Research Associate, Pew Research Center Late last year, the Social and Demographic Trends team at Pew Research Center embarked on an ambitious study about gender identity and the experiences of transgender and nonbinary Americans. We conducted a series of online focus groups of trans and nonbinary adults in March 2022, followed by […]