UWSC faculty director, Nora Cate Schaeffer, will be participating the Consumer Expenditure Methods Workshop to be held on December 8-9. The objectives of the CE Methods Workshop are to identify (a) existing knowledge and experience …
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Faculty director, Nora Cate Schaeffer, selected as a member of the Panel on the Future of Social Science Data Collection of the National Research Council’s Committee on national Statistics
UWSC faculty director, Nora Cate Schaeffer, is one of a panel of experts under the National Research Council’s Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) to participate in developing a research agenda for addressing issues related to …
UWSC staff participate in the annual MAPOR (Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research) Conference
UWSC staff presented papers at the annual meeting of the 2010 conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR) in Chicago, Illinois on November 19-20. Their papers highlighted results from a sequential mixed-mode …
UWSC Director of Project Management Kelly Elver and Project Director Lisa Klein Selected to International Field Directors and Technologies (IFD&TC) Organizing Committee
UWSC is pleased to announce that Director of Project Management Kelly Elver and Project Director Lisa Klein have been selected to serve on the International Field Directors and Technologies Organizing Committee. One of the leading …
UWSC is excited to announce that as of September 7, 2010 interviewers for the Wisconsinsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) have successfully interviewed 3,000 participants
Described as a one of the treasures of American social science, WLS interviews are being conducted in-person for the first time in the history of the study. Interviews are being held with Graduates from the …
Faculty Director, Nora Cate Schaeffer, to teach “Measurement and Questionnaires for Survey Research (Sociology 752)” Fall Semester 2010
Faculty Director, Nora Cate Schaeffer, is offering “Measurement and Questionnaire for Survey Reseach” this semester (Fall 2010) on Wednesdays from 7:45-10:45AM. This course provides an introduction to the conceptual issues raised by conducting measurement using …
UWSC is excited to announce the arrival of new Project Director, Karen Jaques
Before joining the Survey Center, Karen worked as a research assistant for the Office of Applied Gerontology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she was involved with a national randomized clinical trial and network analysis …
UWSC Faculty Director, Nora Cate Schaeffer, elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
UWSC Faculty Director, Nora Cate Schaeffer, is among 53 international scholars elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Recipients are recognized for their outstanding professional contributions to and leadership in the field …
Handbook on Survey Research features UWSC Authors
The 2nd edition of the widely-recognized 1983 volume, Handbook of Survey Research, has been published by the Emerald Group Publishing Limited. The volume, edited by Peter V. Marsden and James D. Wright, updates its previous …
UWSC staff to participate in the 65th annual AAPOR (American Association for Public Opinion Research) Conference
Several UWSC staff will present at the annual meeting of the 2010 conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) in Chicago, Illinois on May 13-16. As in previous years, UWSC staff will …