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New Findings Suggest Straightlining Behavior is Stable across Mail and Web Forms of Self-Administration

Posted on February 22, 2018

Researchers are increasingly turning to web and mail/web mixed-mode designs to combat rising costs and declining response rates. However, little research examines whether the two forms of self-administration lead to mode effects — differences in …

Posted in News, Research

Recent findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study show interviewers’ ratings of respondents’ health predict respondents’ mortality over a 3-year follow-up

Posted on December 8, 2017

Recent research indicates survey interviewers’ ratings of respondents’ health may provide important information about the health of respondents in surveys of older adults. Although these ratings are promising, little is known about what information interviewers …

Posted in News, Research, UWSC Staff

Unpacking What Participants Think About When They Rate Their Health

Posted on October 9, 2017

Self-rated health — “Would you say your health in general is excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor?”— is one of the most widely used measures of health because of its ability to predict morbidity and mortality. Yet it is unclear what underlies health ratings.

Posted in News, Research

UWSC contributes to research on the effects on families of unsuccessful organ donation attempts at the time of death

Posted on September 1, 2017

On behalf of a University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health research team headed by vascular surgeon and medical ethicist Dr. Margaret (Gretchen) Schwarze, UWSC senior project director Ken Croes conducted in-depth interviews …

Posted in Clients/Partners, News, Research

Who’s Calling? Predicting Survey Participation from the Opening of the Call

Posted on August 1, 2017

Although survey researchers have been conducting phone surveys since before the 1970s, little is known about how best to begin a call. A new publication by UWSC researchers and colleagues using data from the Wisconsin …

Posted in News, Research

UWSC Staff to participate in the 51st annual International Field Directors and Technologies Conference (IFD&TC)

Posted on March 20, 2017

Many staff from the UWSC will participate in the 51st annual IFD&TC in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 21st – 24th 2017. Staff will participate by giving presentations, leading panel and round table discussions, and …

Posted in Conferences, News, Research

UWSC researchers examine factors associated with providing biomarkers by mail among graduates in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

Posted on March 1, 2017

UWSC researchers along with collaborators at Loyola University Chicago and UW-Madison recently published findings in Public Opinion Quarterly of a study examining factors associated with compliance to a request to provide a salivary DNA sample …

Posted in News, Research

UWSC researchers present AAPOR webinar on Questionnaire Design

Posted on January 10, 2016

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 …

Posted in News, Research

UWSC researchers explore the effects of second prepaid incentives and envelope messaging on response rates in an addressed-based mail survey about health

Posted on December 20, 2015

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 …

Posted in News, Research

UWSC researchers provide advice about questionnaire design in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

Posted on October 25, 2015

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 …

Posted in News, Research
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