Advances in Measuring Sexual Minorities (LGBTQ) and Same-sex Households and Relationships

Improving Measurement of Same-Sex Couple Households for Census 2020

Rose Kreider, U.S. Census Bureau
Daphne Lofquist, U.S. Census Bureau
Nancy Bates, U.S. Census Bureau
Jamie Lewis, U.S. Census Bureau

Alternative Approaches to Increasing Response Rates

Moderator: Laurie Schwede, U.S. Census Bureau

Evaluating, Monitoring and Improving Interviewers’ Performance

Monitoring Field Interviewers: Real-time Applications of Paradata in Experimental Designs

Rachael Walsh, U.S. Census Bureau
Scott Boggess, U.S. Census Bureau

Experiments with Mobile Data Collection

Embedding Survey Questions within Non-research Mobile Apps: A Method for Collecting High-quality Data from Smartphone Users?

Christopher Antoun, U.S. Census Bureau

The Differential Effect of Mobile-Friendly Surveys on Data Quality

Rachel Horwitz, U.S. Census Bureau

If You Advertise It, Will They Come? Social Marketing, Digital Ads, and Web Response

Moderator: Nancy Bates, U.S. Census Bureau

Simulating a Census Environment to Test Online Self-response

Monica Vines, U.S. Census Bureau

Encouraging Online Response among Hard-to-Survey Populations: Digital Advertising and Influencer Calls

Nancy Bates, U.S. Census Bureau
Matthew Virgile, U.S. Census Bureau

Communication Channels that Predict and Mediate Self-Response

Gina K. Walejko, U.S. Census Bureau

Impact of Incentives on Response Rates

Moderator: Dawn Nelson, U.S. Census Bureau

Innovations with Existing Technologies

Implementing Bring Your Own Device in a Survey Organization

Jessica L. Holzberg, U.S. Census Bureau
Casey M. Eggleston, U.S. Census Bureau

Interviewer Effects and Paradata

Chair: Jennifer Hunter Childs, U.S. Census Bureau

Longitudinal Data Collection Issues

Moderator: Paul Beatty, U.S. Census Bureau

Messaging to Increase Response Rates

Effectiveness of Messaging to Encourage Response to the ACS

Jenna Fulton, U.S. Census Bureau
Gerson Morales, U.S. Census Bureau
Jennifer Hunter Childs, U.S. Census Bureau

Mo’ Money Mo’ Respondents: Using Incentives to Increase Survey Participation

Looking Beyond Obligation: The Social Psychology of Prepaid Survey Incentives

Casey M. Eggleston, U.S. Census Bureau

New Ideas in Using GIS & Remote Sensing Data for Survey Research

Exposing Hidden Structures:Targeted LIDAR Use to Support In-office Review and Validation of an Address Frame

John Liadis, U.S. Census Bureau

Virtual Canvassing: In-office Methods for Validating the Census Bureau’s Address List for the 2020 Census

Michael Ratcliffe, U.S. Census Bureau

Professional Development Project Management: Lessons Learned from Experienced Project Directors

Panelist: Jennifer Hunter Childs, U.S. Census Bureau

Public Opinion Quarterly Special Issue:Survey Research, Today and Tomorrow

Moderator: Peter V. Miller, U.S. Census Bureau

Reaching the Hard-to-Reach

Planning for Production: Design of the Sampling Plan for the 2016-2017 National Survey of Children’s Health

Jason Fields, U.S. Census Bureau
Scott Albrecht, U.S. Census Bureau
Keith Finlay, U.S. Census Bureau
Antoinette Lubich,U.S. Census Bureau
Tracy Mattingly, U.S.Census Bureau

What Are You? Measuring the Size, Characteristics and Attitudes of the Multiracial Population in America

Exploring New Ways to Measure Race/Ethnicity for the 2020 Census

Nicholas Jones, U.S. Census Bureau

Writing and Formatting Questions to Improve Data Quality

Moderator: Joanne Pascale, U.S. Census Bureau

Posters

2015 American Community Survey Mail Contact Strategy Modification Test

Sandra Luckett Clark, U.S. Census Bureau

Characterizing Satisficers in Web Surveys Using Paradata to Target Interventions

Sarah S. Vetting, U.S. Census Bureau
Rachel Horwitz, U.S. Census Bureau
Rachel Bray, U.S. Census Bureau
Adriana Hernandez Viver,U.S. Census Bureau
Jennifer Tancreto, U.S. Census Bureau
Courtney Reiser,U.S.Census Bureau

The Effect of a Pre-due Date Reminder Letter on Nonresponse in a Business Survey

Aryn D. Hernandez, U.S. Census Bureau
Cha-Chi Fan, U.S. Census Bureau
Alfred D. Tuttle, U.S. Census Bureau

Heaping at Round Numbers on Financial Questions: The Role of Satisficing

Michael S. Gideon, U.S. Census Bureau

Potential Word Ordering Effects of the Recent Childbirth Question on the American Community Survey

Gregory Mills, U.S. Census Bureau

Reducing Respondent Burden in the ACS: Results from the 2015 CAPI Burden Reduction Field Pilot

Todd R. Hughes, U.S. Census Bureau
Robert D. Ashmead, U.S. Census Bureau
Eric V. Slud, U.S. Census Bureau
Rachael Walsh, U.S. Census Bureau

Team Effort: Supporting the Collaborative Needs of Respondent Groups in the Economic Census

Alfred D. Tuttle, U.S. Census Bureau

Using Contact Attempt History Data to Determine the Optimal Number of Contacts in Current Population Survey Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing Data Collection

Rachel Bray, U.S. Census Bureau
Cynthia Rothhaas, U.S. Census Bureau
Courtney Reiser, U.S. Census Bureau
Jennifer Tancreto, U.S. Census Bureau

Advancements in Cross-Cultural and Multilingual Questionnaire Design and Pretesting

Moderator: Patricia Goerman, U.S. Census Bureau

Multilingual Language Research at the U.S. Census Bureau in Preparation for the 2020 Census: Looking Across Modes and Language

Patricia Goerman,U.S. Census Bureau

The Hidden Barriers: Assessing Usability of Government Websites for Asian Non-English Speakers

Patricia Goerman, U.S. Census Bureau

Symbols and Layout: Unique Issues in Arabic Translation of Self-administered Survey Forms

Mikelyn Meyers, U.S. Census Bureau

Qualitative Research with Demographically Diverse Russian Speakers

Gerson Morales, U.S. Census Bureau

The Performance of Vignettes in Focus Groups and Cognitive Interviews in a Cross-cultural Context

Mikelyn Meyers, U.S. Census Bureau
Yazmin Garcia Trejo, U.S. Census Bureau
Lucia Lykke, U.S. Census Bureau
Nicole Holliday, U.S. Census Bureau

Alternative Approaches to Measuring Survey Error

Using the Planning Database to Plan and Improve the Survey Process

Kathleen M. Kephart, U.S. Census Bureau

Assessing the ACA: Measuring Coverage

Validating Self-reported Health Insurance Coverage: Results from an Experiment on CPS and ACS Questions

Joanne Pascale, U.S. Census Bureau

Changes and Constants Over Time

Continuing to Explore the Relation of Economic and Political Conditions with Government Survey Refusal Rates, 1960 to 2015

Luke J. Larsen, U.S. Census Bureau
Joanna Fane Lineback, U.S. Census Bureau
Benjamin M. Reist, U.S. Census Bureau

Maintaining Data Quality During Fieldwork in International CAPI Surveys

CAPI Data Quality in Namibia and Lesotho

Gregory Martin, U.S. Census Bureau

Matchmaking Survey Data and Big Data

Using Administrative Records in the American Community Survey

Amy B. O’Hara, U.S. Census Bureau
Deborah Stempowski, U.S. Census Bureau

Methods to Improve Data Quality

The Effects of Sending a Pre-notice Postcard in a CAPI-conducted Survey on Response and Cost

Allison Zotti, U.S. Census Bureau

Refining ABS

Evaluation of the National Survey of Children’s Health Survey Design and Future Directions

Jason Fields, U.S. Census Bureau

Rights of Respondents

Communicating Data Use and Privacy: In-person versus Web Based Methods for Message Testing

Aleia Clark Fobia, U.S. Census Bureau
Jennifer Hunter Childs, U.S. Census Bureau

When Numbers Aren’t Enough: Supplementing Quantitative Data Collection with Qualitative Insights

Moderator:Jennifer Hunter Childs, U.S. Census Bureau

What Drives Public Opinion? Drawing Causal Inference Through Open-ended Probes

Gerson Morales, U.S. Census Bureau

Census Knowledge and Census Participation Among Hispanics

Yazmín García Trejo, U.S. Census Bureau

Posters

Study of Statistics and Stakeholders

Barbara C. O’Hare, Retired, U.S. Census Bureau

Increasing Data Flexibility While Maintaining Confidentiality: Tools in Development at the Census Bureau

Amy Lauger, U.S. Census Bureau
Michael Freiman, U.S. Census Bureau