By Paul Beatty, 2022 – 2023 AAPOR President This issue of the AAPOR newsletter highlights several of the Council’s recent activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Although I believe that AAPOR members have long cherished these values, it is only in relatively recent times that we have explicitly stated our commitment as an […]
The latest AAPOR Member Survey was conducted in Spring 2022. There were 1,019 complete or partial responses, with an AAPOR RR2 of 50.7%. Respondents were asked about the priority that should be placed on several potential IEC initiatives. Most members considered increasing diversity among leadership, membership, public opinion, and survey research profession to be high […]
By: Ashani Johnson-Turbes, Vice President and Director, NORC at the University of Chicago Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (1951) We find ourselves at a watershed moment […]
Navigating Gendered Language for Respectful and Inclusive Interactions
Panelists: Jessica Holzberg, MS, Alisú Schoua-Glusberg, PhD, and Florian Keusch, PhD
Moderator: Kathleen Kephart, MS U.S. Census Bureau
Platform: Zoom
Date: Dec. 8, 2022, 11:00–12:00 pm Eastern Time
Register at the following link:
https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2nmRwHEyQAfslGC
The Odum Institute offers a variety of short courses that teach students survey research practices, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, data collection, questionnaire development, and much more! We hope to expand our pool of instructors and topics to capture the diversity in the vast field of survey research. Courses are generally 4 or 8 hours and are conducted virtually. Please contact Jessica Grant ([email protected]) if you are interested in teaching a course!
The Establishment Survey Researcher Affinity (ESRA) Group is an official AAPOR Affinity group. The purpose of the ESRA Group is to provide a community of scholarship for those engaged in survey research where the unit of analysis is other than an individual or a household. This could include institutions – like businesses, schools, and hospitals – as well as official records and other non-human sources of data.
Journal Citation Reports recently released journal impact factors and rankings for 2021. Public Opinion Quarterly’s 2-year impact factor increased to 4.616 (from 4.154 in 2020). The journal’s 5-year impact factor also increased to 6.198 (from 5.431) and the journal continued to be ranked in the top quartile in communications journals (16 of 94), political science (18 or 187) and interdisciplinary social science (13 of 111).
In 2022, AAPOR celebrated coming together for our first in-person conference since 2019, and we challenged ourselves with disrupting public opinion research in the pursuit of equity and inclusion. In 2023, we will maintain this spirit but shift our focus to building collaborative partnerships and working together to face the challenges discussed in Chicago. Collaboration and partnership is crucial for high-quality public opinion research and being able to hear all voices from the communities that we are measuring. Survey and public opinion researchers bring myriad technical skills to the table, but only when they build close working relationships with community partners and substantive experts does the most impactful research emerge. For the 2023 conference theme, we will be recognizing the importance of careful public opinion research to collaborative science, and reflecting on the importance of collaboration to gaining knowledge.
Last fall, when the announcement was made that AAPOR was transitioning to self-management, several members reached out to me expressing enthusiasm for the decision. I was intrigued that they generally categorized this as going "back to basics"—returning AAPOR to the way things had been before we had hired professional management companies to support our day-to-day operations.
Have you met Gerson Morales, Survey Statistician for Office of Statistical Methods and Research at the US Energy Information Administration? Learn more about Gerson and his AAPOR experience.