NORC staff members will present more than two dozen papers and posters May 14 - 16 at the 2009 American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Conference in Hollywood, Florida.  Papers and presenters include: 

• "A Listed Oversample Design for the National Immunization Survey" by Elizabeth Welch; Hee-Choon Shin; and Noelle Angelique Molinari.

• "Screening Households for the REACH US Risk Factor Survey: An Experiment in Using Self-Administered Questionnaires" by Keeshawna Brooks; Kari L. Nysse-Carris; Martin Barron; Lauren Kemp; Julie Gasparac; and Angela Debello.

• "Address-Based Sampling and Address Matching: Experience from REACH US" by Katie Dekker and Whitney Murphy.

• "Timing is Everything (Part 2): Efficacy Evaluation of Using Incentives at Two Different Time Periods" by Karen Grigorian and Shana M. Brown.

• "Effects of Recall Cues and Respondent Age on Data Quality" by Lisa Lee and Parvati Krishnamurty.

• "Implications for Survey Design When Collecting Autobiographical Data" by Lindsay Virost; Vincent E. Welch; and Brianna Groenhout.

• "A Comparison of Direct Recall to Milestone-Related Recall of Autobiographical Intervals" by Vincent E. Welch; Brianna Groenhout; and Kristy Webber.

• "Who’s Missing Data in a Multi-Mode Survey" by Deborah Harper; and Lance Selfa.

• "Long-Term Effects of Incentives: Results from the NLSY97" by Parvati Krishnamurty; Kyle Fennell; and Jodie Daquilinea.

• "Changing from Total Survey Error to Total Survey Variation" by Tom W. Smith.

• "The Effect of Interviewer Demographics on Response Rates in NLSY97" by Kanru Xia; Jodie Daquilanea; Arleigh Dom; and Kyle Fennell.

• "Decline to Answer: SED Web Respondent Results of Explicit and Passive Item Refusal" by Lino M. Jimenez; Vince Welch; Syed Ahsan; and Brianna Groenhout.

• "An Innovative Incentive Effort: Passive Refusals in a Large Population-Based Survey" by Alicia M. Frasier; Erin B. Foster; Heather M. Morrison; and Kathleen S. O'Connor.

• "Giving the People What They Want: A Study of Respondents’ Survey Mode Preference Over Multiple Rounds of a Longitudinal Survey" by Lance Selfa and Thomas Hoffer.

• "Paid Sick Days: A Basic Labor Standard for the 21st Century" by Tom W. Smith.

• "Where Did All the Children Go? Undercoverage Analysis Using Telephone Exchange Information" by Ting Yan; Kathleen Santos; Wei Zeng; and Zhen Zhao.

• "Estimating Nonresponse Bias in the National Immunization Survey (NIS) Using State Immunization Information Systems (IIS)" by Robert Montgomery; Kyle Enger; Lisa Rasmussen; Diana Bartlett; Noelle Angelique Molinari; and Phillip J. Smith.

• "A Social Profile of the 'Wireless-Only' and 'Wireless-Mostly' Population" by Martin Barron and Kirk Wolter.

• "Multimode Surveys Using Address-Based Sampling: The Design and Preliminary Experience of REACH US" by Martin Barron.

• "Do They Mean What They Say? Efficacy Evaluation of Assigning Sample Members Without a Mode Preference to the Web Mode" by Shana M. Brown and Karen Grigorian.

• "An Experiment in Using Prepaid Cell Phones to Interview Households Without an Available Phone Number" by Keeshawna Brooks; Angie Jaszczak; and Karen Wooten.

• "Measuring Educational Careers: Alternative Indices of Time-to-Degree in Educational Surveys" by Thomas B. Hoffer and Mary Ann Latter.

• "The Multi-Level Integrated Database Approach: An Initial Assessment" by Tom W. Smith.

• "A Meta-Analysis of Within-Household Respondent Selection Methods" by Ting Yan. 

• "Survey Nonresponse Rates Among Underrepresented Minority Students" by Brianna Groenhout and Thomas B. Hoffer.

• "Modeling the Need for Traditional vs. Commercially-Available Address Listings for In-Person Surveys: Results from a National Validation of Addresses" by Ned English; Colm O'Muircheartaigh; and Stephanie Eckman.

• "Trends in Confidence in Institutions: 1973-2008" by Tom W. Smith.

• "Trends in Surveys on Surveys" by Jibum Kim; Carl Gershenson; and Tom W. Smith.