Several staff from the UWSC will present at the annual meeting of the 2016 conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) in Austin, Texas on May 12-15. As in previous years, UWSC …
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UWSC researchers present AAPOR webinar on Questionnaire Design
On 21 January, a webinar developed by Jennifer Dykema (UWSC Survey Methodologist), Nora Cate Schaeffer (UWSC Faculty Director), and Dana Garbarski (Loyola University Chicago) was presented for members of the American Association for Public Opinion …
Wisconsin Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS)
The Wisconsin Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS) is a school-based survey of middle school (grades 6-8) and high school (grades 9-12) students. The survey collects information on youth knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors related to the use of tobacco and vaping products.
UWSC researchers explore the effects of second prepaid incentives and envelope messaging on response rates in an addressed-based mail survey about health
UWSC researchers along with collaborators at UW-Madison and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research recently published findings in Public Opinion Quarterly of two studies designed to examine the effect of sequential prepaid incentives and …
Dr. Nora Cate Schaeffer named 2015 MAPOR Fellow
On November 20th, at the 40th annual MAPOR Conference (Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research), Dr. Nora Cate Schaeffer, UW Survey Center faculty director and Sewell Bascom Professor of Sociology, was named MAPOR’s 2015 Fellow. …
UWSC researchers provide advice about questionnaire design in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Nora Cate Schaeffer, Faculty Director and Jennifer Dykema, Survey Methodologist have reviewed the large literature that provides the basis for recommendations about how to improve the reliability and validity of standardized measurement, whether in survey …
Results of successful web surveys conducted by UWSC for the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science released
The University of Wisconsin Survey Center’s work in administering two very successful web surveys of University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science Alumni was released in early October, 2015. To see the announcement, click …
UWSC’s Milwaukee Area Renters Study (MARS) spotlighted by MacArthur Foundation announcement of Class of 2015 MacArthur Fellows. Principal investigator of MARS, Dr. Matthew Desmond – now at Harvard University – has been selected as a fellow
UWSC has become a Charter Member of the Transparency Initiative of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
Just as members of AAPOR agree to abide by AAPOR’s Code of Professional Ethics and Practices, organizations that join the Transparency Initiative agree to follow practices for disclosing the way data were collected that allow …
Senior project directors interviewed by MJS for detailed health article about stool sample collection
Senior project directors, Kerryann DiLoreto and Ken Croes were interviewed by MJS journalist Mark Johnson for this detailed health article about the successful stool sample collection effort for the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. To read the …