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 …
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Publications from staff, webinar presentations, or talks given
UWSC Staff to participate in the 51st annual International Field Directors and Technologies Conference (IFD&TC)
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 …
UWSC researchers examine factors associated with providing biomarkers by mail among graduates in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
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 …
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 …
What makes a good life? UWSC client Dr. Robert Waldinger talks about three important lessons learned from his research
What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it’s fame and money, you’re not alone – but, according to psychiatrist and UWSC client Robert Waldinger, you’re mistaken. As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.
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 …
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 …
We Collected What??? Designing In-Home Collection of Stool and Water Samples for the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
UWSC conducted a series of focus groups, then launched a pilot effort to collect human microbiome samples, drinking water samples and tests, and a self-administered questionnaire from a subset of Graduate and Sibling participants and …
Project Management Director Kelly Elver and Survey Methodologist Jennifer Dykema participate in an Open House at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Staff from the UWSC participated in the “Epidemiology/Data Open House” sponsored by the Division of Public Health within the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Project Management Director Kelly Elver and Survey Methodologist Jennifer Dykema presented …
How does response option order and question order affect self-rated health? A collaborative project between researchers at the UWSC and Loyola University Chicago investigates effects in a new journal article
In collaboration with Dana Garbarski (Loyola University Chicago), the UWSC Faculty Director Nora Cate Schaeffer and Senior Scientist Jennifer Dykema present findings from a web survey assessing the impact of response option order and question …