The AAPOR Inclusive Voices Award recognizes the important data sets, research, and survey methods that have improved the ability to study complex social phenomena related to understudied populations. The award will be presented to the scholars/researchers, organizations, or institutions who have produced the scholarship (including data collection, methodological approaches, or publications).
2026 – KFF Surveys of Immigrants Project
Contributors: Shannon Schumacher, Liz Hamel, Samantha Artiga, Drishti Pillai, Ashley Kirzinger, Audrey Kearney, Marley Presiado, Isabelle Valdes, Julian Montalvo III, Mollyann Brodie (KFF); Eran Ben-Porath, Cameron McPhee, Emily Jennings, Payel Sen (SSRS); David Lauter (formerly LA Times); Ruth Igielnik, Will Davis (NY Times)
KFF’s Surveys of Immigrants is a groundbreaking, multi-year research initiative conducted in partnership with SSRS and major media organizations. This project represents the only large-scale, nationally representative probability-based surveys of immigrants conducted in the United States in decades, designed specifically to center the voices of populations often excluded from public opinion research.
Through innovative multi-frame, multilingual, and multi-mode methods, the surveys successfully reached communities such as undocumented immigrants, Black immigrants, and those with limited English proficiency. By combining methodological rigor with deep community engagement, the work documents how immigrants’ experiences, fears, and perspectives have evolved during periods of intensified immigration enforcement and political polarization.
Beyond advancing survey methodology, the project has had substantial real-world impact—informing journalism, public discourse, and policy deliberations at the local, state, and federal levels. Together, these efforts set a new standard for inclusive, ethical, and impactful research on hard-to-reach populations.
2025 – University of Michigan’s Program for Research on Black Americans
2024 – UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
2023 – The Missing Voice of Asian Americans – Pew Center
2022 – The National Latino & Asian American Study (NLAAS)
2020 – Matthew Desmond
2019 – National Survey of Latinos (NSL)
