#aapor

I’m an individual market researcher in Canada: Which association should I join?

What’s up Canadian researchers! In recent weeks…

CRIC set out a statement of purpose and polices to help market research companies in Canada.

ESOMAR announced a partnership with CRIC to help individual researchers whose company’s are members of CRIC.

But what about students, academics, government employees, freelancers like me, and all the individual researchers from Canadian companies that…

Nazaré Vista do Farol

Farol da Nazaré

Banca dos Amendoins no Sítio da Nazaré

Moderator: Aaron Maitland, Westat; Discussant: Jennifer Romano Bergstrom, Facebook 

Evaluating Grid Questions for 4th Graders; Aaron Maitland, Westat

Used to study cognitive processing

Does processing of questions change over the survey period

15 items, 5 content areas about learning, school, tech in school, self-esteem

15 single items and 9 grid items

Grid questions are not more difficult, only…

Data Quality Issues For Online Surveys #AAPOR

Moderator: Doug Currivan, RTI International Location: Meeting Room 410, Fourth Floor Impact of ‘Don’t Know’ Options on Attitudinal and Demographic Questions; Larry Osborn, GfK Custom Research; Nicole R. Buttermore, GfK Custom Research Frances M. Barlas, GfK Custom Research Abigail Giles, GfK Custom Research

Telephone and in person rarely offer a don’t know option but they will record it, offering…

What Are You? Measuring The Size, Characteristics And Attitudes Of The Multiracial Population In America #AAPOR

Live note taking at #AAPOR in Austin Texas. Any errors or bad jokes are my own.

Moderator: Richard Morin, Pew Research Center 

Exploring New Ways to Measure Race/Ethnicity for the 2020 Census; Nicholas Jones, U.S. Census Bureau

Focus is multiethnic Americans 

Increasing numbers of people don’t identify with the current categories, lobbying government to change the categories

Can people find…

Live note taking at #AAPOR in Austin Texas. Any errors or bad jokes are my own.

The feedback of respondent committment and tailored feedback on response quality in an online survey; Kristin Cibelli, U of Michigan

People can be unwilling or unable to provide high quality data, will informing them of the importance and asking for committment help to improve data quality [I assume this means the…

Enjoy my live note taking at AAPOR in Austin, Texas. Any bad jokes or errors are my own. Good jokes are especially mine.  

Moderator: Masahiko Aida, Civis Analytics

Employing Machine Learning Approaches in Social Scientific Analyses; Arne Bethmann, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) Jonas F. Beste, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

[Good job on starting without a computer being ready.…