2015 Annual PAPOR Conference
Agenda and Presentations
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| THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2015 | |
| 8:00AM – 10:15AM | Short Course 1: Dual Frame Cell Phone and Landline Surveys: Design and Weighting, Dr. Stas Kolenikov, Abt SRBI |
| 10:30AM – 12:45PM | Short Course 2: Mobile Devices and Modular Survey Design, Paul Johnson of Survey Sampling International, Presentation |
| 2:30PM – 3:30PM | Panel 1: Analysis, Design, & Sampling Methods |
| Chair: Dean Bonner, PPIC
Contracting the Application of Simple Random Sampling Method vs. the Convenient Sampling Method with Extremely Rare Populations: The Case Study of Former Yugoslavs in Boston, Nikola Novacevic Enhancing the use of Qualitative Research to Understand Public Opinion, Paul J. Lavrakas, Independent Consultant; Margaret R. Roller, Roller Research, Paper Comparisons of Fully Balanced, Minimally Balanced, and Unbalanced Rating Scales, Mingnan Liu, Sarah Cho, and Noble Kuriakose, SurveyMonkey Conflicting Thoughts: The Effect of Information on Support for an Increase in the Federal Minimum Wage Level, Joshua Cooper & Alejandra Gimenez, Brigham Young University, First Place Student Paper Competition Winner. Presentation, Paper |
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| 4:00PM – 5:30PM | Panel 2: Uses of Survey & Polling Data Collection: Practical & Ethical |
| Chair: Sonja Petek, UC BerkeleyAre California’s Registered Independents Shy Partisans?, David Kordus, Public Policy Institute of California. Presentation, Paper
Exploring the Financial Landscape Facing Veterans in Nevada: Financial Literacy, Decision-making, and Payday Loans, Justin S. Gardner & Christopher Stream, UNLV, Runner-Up Student Paper Competition Winner. Presentation, Paper What Constitutes Informed Consent? Understanding Respondents’ Need for Transparency, Nicole Buttermore, Randall Thomas, Frances M. Barlas, & Mansour Fahimi, GfK. Presentation Recent Changes to the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Act, Bob Davis, Davis Research. Presentation |
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| 6:15PM – 8:45PM | Plenary event :The Uses of Big Data in Public Opinion and Polling Research |
| Featuring:Annie Pettit, Peanut Labs
David Latterman, Fall Line Analytics, Curtis Cobb of Facebook |
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| FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2015 | |
| 8:30am – 10:00am | Panel 3: Improvements to Survey Modes |
| Chair: Sarah Cho, SurveyMonkey
What Are They Thinking? How IVR Captures Public Opinion for a Democracy, Mary McDougall, Survox, presentation (PPT) The Promising Role of Fax in Surveys of Clinical Establishments: Observations from a Multi-mode Survey of Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Natalie Teixeira, Anne Herleth, and Vasudha Narayanan, Weststat; Kelsey O’Yong, Los Angeles Department of Public Health, presentation The Pros and Cons of Persistence During Telephone Recruitment for an Establishment Survey, Paul Weinfurter and Vasudha Narayanan, Westat, presentation |
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| 10:00am – 10:15am | AAPOR Presentation – Mollyann Brodie, AAPOR Vice President/President-Elect |
| 10:15am – 10:45am | Poster Session and Break |
| Correlates of Response Latency in Web Surveys, Benjamin Phillips, Stainslav Kolenikov, Elaine Howard Ecklund (Rice University), Allison Ackermann, & Ho Won Cheng, Abt SRB
ISyria Rising: Has the Syrian Refugee Crisis Shifted U.S. Public Opinion? Gina Jannone & Chelsea Bartholomew, University of Denver Sustainable Transportation at the Ballot Box: A Disaggregate Analysis of the Relative Importance of User Travel Mode, Values, & Self Interest, Matthew Palm, University of California, Davis |
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| 10:30am – 12:15pm | Panel 4: 2016: The Year of the Outsider |
| Chair: Floyd Ciruli, Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research
The Summer of Our Discontent, Stuart Elway, Elway Research, presentation Californian’s Opinion of Political Outsiders, Mark Baldassare, PPIC Colorado’s History of Outsider Preference, Floyd Ciruli, Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research, Presentation Trump’s Beguiling Ascent: What 50-State Polling Says About the Surprise GOP Frontrunner, Jon Cohen & Kevin Stay, SurveyMonkey |
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| 1:30pm – 3:00pm | Panel 5: Mobile Survey Response and Design |
| Chair: Benn Messer, Research Into Action
15 Things We Know About Mobile Surveys, Tom Wells, Nielsen, Presentation The Changing Landscape of Technology and Its Effects on Online Survey Data Quality, Nicole Mitchell, SSI, Presentation Measuring Survey Behavior of Smart Phone Users, Rebecca Phillips and Samantha Luks, YouGov, Presentation |
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