Workshops Presentation Materials

P-1. Keynote Talk: What Has Technology Done For Us and To Us? Are We Ready for What's Next? (, 213kb)
- Carol House, National Agricultural Statistics Service

WA-1. The Changing Telephone System and Its Implications for Surveys.

• Wireless Challenges: What We Know and Don't Know (, 485kb)
  - Linda B. Piekarski, Survey Sampling International, LLC

WA-2. Web and Internet Surveys: Design Issues.

• Experiments in Color for Web-Based Surveys (, 191kb)
  - Reg Baker / Duston Pope, Market Strategies, Inc.


• 2005 NCT: Design issues (, 712kb)
  - Suzanne Fratino/Sarah Brady, U.S. Census Bureau


• Designing Effective Edits for Web Surveys ( presentation (, 1.1mb), paper (, 700kb) )
  - William Mockovak, Bureau of Labor Statistics

WP-1. Management of CAI Authoring and Instrument Testing.

• Development Metrics (, 619kb)
  - Mike Egan <mike.egan@statcan.ca>, Statistics Canada

WP-2. Web and Internet Surveys: Implementation Issues.

• Evaluating Web Data Collection in Two BLS Surveys (, 537kb)
  - Jennifer Shields <shields.jennifer@bls.gov>, BLS


• Innovations in Electronic Data Reporting: The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Project (, 194kb)
  - Pamela Best <pamela.best@statcan.ca>, Statistics Canada


• The Effectiveness of E-mail in Obtaining Respondents for Web-based Surveys (, 561kb)
  - Stuart R. Allen, RTI

WP-3. Mobile Survey Computing Lessons Learned in the Lab and the Field.

• Study of Handheld Computer Stylus Skills in Older Adults (, 299kb)
  - Juan Pablo Hourcade <juan-pablo.hourcade@census.gov>, Usability Lab Statistical Research Division, U.S. Census Bureau


• Using Hand-Held Computers for Data Collection in the 2010 Census (, 98kb)
  - Jean Sebold <jean.marie.sebold@census.gov>, U.S. Census Bureau


• Palm Handhelds for Data Collection, Reporting, and Randomization (, 1.9mb)
  - Stephen Litavecz <slitavecz@rti.org>, RTI International

TA-1. Multimode CASIC Surveys.

• Data Collection and Data Handling Logistics in the Multi-Mode BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (, 386kb)
  - Michael Searson, BLS


• Tight Integration of Web, CATI, and Paper Modes in the CATI, and Paper Modes in the 2003 National Survey of 2003 National Survey of Recent College Graduates Recent College Graduates (, 449kb)
  - Mark Pierzchala and Debra Wright, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

TA-4. New and Emerging Technologies.

• MPR Survey Manager (, 1.7mb)
  - John Mamer <jmamer@mathematica-mpr.com>, Mathematica Policy Research


• Bringing Computer Audio Recorded Interviewing (CARI) to Actuality (, 234kb)
  - Rita Thissen <rthissen@rti.org>, RTI International and Cynthia Wrenn-Yorker <cynthia.m.wrenn-yorker@census.gov>, U.S. Census Bureau


• The Who Knows Network (, 1.3mb)
  - Carla Buczinski <carla.j.buczinski@census.gov>, U.S. Census Bureau and Lucie Dalzell <lucinda.p.dalzell@census.gov>, U.S. Census Bureau