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The staff at the Center for Survey Research are actively involved in research projects aimed at developing new survey techniques. The CSR staff regularly present papers at professional meetings. In the past few years, various staff members presented papers on:
The CSR has many additional research projects underway.
The CSR is a leader among academic survey organizations in developing innovative survey research procedures. For many projects, we design and develop techniques that provide researchers with unique samples and data. Listed here are just a few.
The Center developed and used qualitative interviewing procedures in a large scale national survey. These procedures encourage interactive conversations between the interviewers and the respondents in the context of a guided interview.
These innovative techniques add a qualitative dimension to our standard interviews. The information we gather is richer in meaning and depth than the information obtained from standard forced or closed choice format.
We can generate more cost-effective random telephone samples and target geographic areas and special populations with the Genesys sampling system. These techniques allow more focused and targeted samples while retaining the random selection of telephone numbers from all listed and unlisted telephone numbers.
Within a survey, we often use multiple modes to improve data quality and increase response rates. We use multiple modes in many complex national surveys and with sensitive populations. We anticipate that more researchers will use multiple modes to counter reduced response rates. The mixtures of modes (e.g., telephone, fax, email, Web) can be customized for each project.
Listed here are a few technical reports and presentations written by CSR staff.
John M Kennedy. American Sociological Association Didactic on New Survey Methods - Handout and Resources.
John M Kennedy.
Comparisons of Questions Across Two Surveys: Results from a Quasi-Experiment. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Meeting, May 2004.John M Kennedy. Ethics Codes and Survey Researchers. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Meeting, May 2001.
John M Kennedy, George D Kuh, and Robert Carini. Web and Mail Surveys: Preliminary Results of Comparisons Based on a Large-Scale Project. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Meeting, May 2000.
John M Kennedy and Nancy G Bannister. Alternate Methods of Asking Race in Telephone Surveys. Poster session at the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Meeting, May 1999.
John M Kennedy, Roger Parks, Nancy Bannister, Jennifer Inghram, and Heather Terhune. An Analysis of the Effect of Varying Presurvey Letter Characteristics on Cooperation Rates. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Meeting, May 1998.
John Kennedy and Chris Botsko, Exploring the Past Using Survey Research: Procedures and Problems. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Meeting, May 1995.
J M Kennedy, M B Camp, T Taylor, E D Kinney, K A Jordan, D A Freund, "Pushing the Envelopes" (Literally and Figuratively) in a Mixed-Mode Survey to Collect Health Insurance Information. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Meeting, May 1994.
R B Parks, J M Kennedy, L F Hecht, A Demographic Analysis of the Impact of Presurvey Letters on Cooperation Rates in Urban Neighborhoods. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Meeting, May 1994.
John Kennedy, A Comparison of Telephone Survey Respondent Selection Procedures. Presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) Annual Meeting, May 1993.
John Kennedy, An Odyssey Through RDD Sampling Procedures, NNSP Newsletter, Winter 1994.