Researchers from the U.S. Census Bureau, along with many other survey research professionals across the nation, will present findings at the 72nd annual American Association for Public Opinion Research Conference on May 18-21, 2017, in New Orleans, La. This year’s theme is “Embracing Change and Diversity in Public Opinion and Social Science Research.”

Census Bureau staffers will present research findings on a spectrum of topics including:

Tech Showcase: Accessibility of Web Surveys on Mobile Devices

Designing response options for touch in mobile Web surveys

Does typographic cueing improve the processing of information from survey questions on a mobile device?

Dropdown response options in mobile surveys

Optimal field label location for mobile surveys

Measuring Tribal Enrollment among American Indians and Alaska Natives: A Cognitive Pretest of Multiple Approaches

2020 Census Pretesting Research on Race, Tribe, and Tribal Enrollment for American Indians and Alaska Natives: A Synthesis

Writing in Race: Cognitive Testing of Experimental 2020 Race and Ethnicity Questions

Writing in Tribe: Focus Group Pretesting of Methods to Collect Race and Tribe Data with Very Diverse American Indian and Alaska Native Populations

Central and South American Indigenous, American Indian or Hispanic/Latino Respondents? Navigating racial identity categories in U.S. Census Forms

What influences willingness to participate in passive mobile data collection?

Decennial Census Knowledge & Participation across Hard-to-Count Sub-Groups

Development of Doorstep Introductory Survey Messages for Use across Languages: New Advancements towards Best Practices

Using Paired Cognitive Interviews to Assess the Accuracy of Proxy Responses

Using Online Panels to Approximate Populations of Interest for Cognitive Testing

Remote Cognitive Interviewing: An alternative to traditional in-person cognitive testing

Bilinguals as cognitive interview respondents: Identifying potential data quality problems and refining recruitment criteria

Transparency and Qualitative Research: Multilingual Cognitive Testing

Examining mode effects in a national survey of schools, principals, and teachers

Screening for Specific Experiences and Characteristics: Striking the Balance between False Positives and False Negatives

Non-Specific Reference Periods in Survey Questions: Understanding Survey Responses about

Behaviors in a "Typical Week" Versus "Last Week"

Optimal response formatting for fixed-field data items

Categorizing Type of Health Insurance Coverage in the Redesigned Current Population Survey

Internet and technology usage by households applying for free and reduced-price school meals

Does It Matter? Impact of Confidentiality Pledges on Web Survey Response

Do they read it?  Using paradata to evaluate the extent to which respondents attend to confidentiality pledge language

Conducting Online Joint Cognitive and Usability Testing of Messaging about Privacy and Confidentiality Protections

Public Attitudes on Federal Statistics: What are respondents really thinking?

Do People Understand It? Cognitive Interviewing Assessment of Confidentiality Pledges for Household Surveys

PANEL: The U.S. Census Bureau’s Planning Database as a Free Tool for Survey Practitioners: Applications of the Planning Database in Government, Academia and the Private Sector

Developing Estimates of Sampling Variability for the Planning Database’s Low Response Score

This multiday conference is a forum for Census Bureau staffers to present and discuss their research on public opinion and survey research for professional discussion. Please visit the American Association of Public Opinion Research annual conference page for more information on the papers and posters to be presented at the conference, including a preliminary program with abstracts and to learn more about Census Bureau researchers, visit our Researcher Profiles.

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