UWSC staff to participate in the 67th annual AAPOR (American Association for Public Opinion Research) Conference

Several UWSC staff will present at the annual meeting of the 2012 conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) in Orlando, Florida on May 17-20. As in previous years, UWSC staff will demonstrate their contributions to survey research methodology by presenting papers and methodological briefs (staff names appear in bold):

  • Kristen Cyffka, Jennifer Dykema, John Stevenson, Kelly Elver, and Karen Jacques, “SHOW Me the Money? Effects of Preincentives, Differential Incentives, and Envelope Messaging in an ABS Mail Survey”
  • Jennifer Dykema, Nora Cate Schaeffer, and Dana Garbarski, “Effects of Agree-Disagree Versus Construct-Specific Items on Reliability, Validity, and Interviewer-Respondent Interaction”
  • Nora Cate Schaeffer, Dana Garbarski, Douglas W. Maynard, and Jeremy Freese, “An Interactional Model of the Call for Participation in the Survey Interview”
  • John Stevenson, Jennifer Dykema, Lisa Klein, Kristen Cyffka, and Sara Goldrick-Rab, “What are the Odds? Lotteries versus Cash Incentives. Response Rates, Cost and Data Quality for a Web Survey of Low-Income Former and Current College Students”

To visit the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) website click here.