SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report

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Basic Information
Additional Info

Status: Approved

Basic Information

Project No. and Title: WERA1001 : Reduction of Error in Rural and Agricultural Surveys
Period Covered: 10/01/2004 to 09/01/2005
Date of Report: 08/23/2005
Annual Meeting Dates: 03/03/2005 to 03/04/2005

Don Dillman (Washington) dillman@wsu.edu; Fred Lorenz (Iowa) folorenz@iastate.edu; Rob Robertson (New Hampshire) robertr@cisuix.unh.edu; Steve Swinford (Montana) swinford@montana.edu; Glen Israel (Florida) GDI@mail.ifas.ufl.edu; Virginia Lesser (Oregon) lesser@stat.orst.edu; Marilyn Smith (Nevada) smithm@unce.unr.edu; Bob Mason (Oregon) masonr@stat.orst.edu; The following were not in attendance but either are members or have interest; Tommy Brown (Cornell) tlb4@cornell.edu; Shorna Broussard (Purdue) srb@fnr.purdue.edu; Angela Mertig (Tennessee) mertig@msu.edu; Fern Willits (Pennsylvania) fkw@psu.edu; Vicki McCracken (Administrative Advisor) mccracke@wsu.edu Loretta Singletary (UN, Reno) singletary1@unce.unr.edu John Saltiel (Montana) jsaltiel@montana.edu Robie Sangster (BLS) Sangster_R@bls.gov

Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Please see attached file for the WERA-1001: Experiments in Survey March 3 - 4, 2005 Minutes.

Legacy attachment file:

[Minutes]

Accomplishments

Committee members reported results of research they had conducted during the previous year at the annual meeting, and shared ideas for new projects in order to get input for new projects.

Impacts

Results from research conducted by committee members was used to redesign proposed Census questionnaires for the U.S. 2010 Decennial Census and for the USDA Agricultural Resource Management Survey that is conducted annually by the the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service.
The American Statistical Association has also used web design principles developed through the work of committee members for four surveys it has conducted.
Members of the committee have helped a number of other faculty in their institutions with survey design ideas presented at our annual meetings.

Publications

Lorenz, Frederick O., K. A. S. Wickrama, and Rand D. Conger. (2004)."Modeling continuity and change in family relationships with panel data." Chapter 2 (pp. 15 - 62) in R. D. Conger, F. O. Lorenz & K. A. S. Wickrama (Eds.), Continuity and Change in Family Relationships: Theory, Methods, and Empirical Findings. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Sangster, Roberta L. and Brian J. Meekins. 2004. Modeling the Likelihood of Interviews and Refusals: Using Call History Data to Improve Efficiency of Effort in a National RDD Survey Proceeding for 2004 Joint StatisticalMeeting Survey Research Methods Section Meekins, Brian J. and Roberta L. Sangster 2004. Predicting Wave Nonresponse from Prior Wave Data Quality. Proceedings for 2004 Joint Statistical Meeting Survey Research Methods Section Christian, Leah and Don A. Dillman, 2004. "The Influence of Symbolic and Graphical Language Manipulations on Answers to Paper Self-Administered Questionnaires." Public Opinion Quarterly 68 (1): 57-80 Dillman, Don A. and Cleo D. Redline. 2004. "Testing Paper Self-Administered Questionnaires: Cognitive Interview and Field Test Comparisons." In Presser, Stanley, Jennifer M. Rothgeb, Mick P. Couper, Judith T. Lessler, Elizabeth Martin, Jeam Martin and Eleanor Singer. Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires. New York : Wiley-Interscience. Pp.299-317. Dillman, Don A. 2004. The Conundrum of Mixed-Mode Surveys in the 21st Century. Cohen, Steven B. and James M. Lepkowski. Eighth Conference on Health Survey Research Methods. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 04-113. Hyattsville. PP.165-170. Smyth, Jolene D., Don A. Dillman, Leah Melani Christian and Michael J. Stern. 2004. "How Visual Grouping Influences Answers to Internet Surveys." Technical Report #04-023. Washington State University Social and Economic Sciences Research Center: Pullman. 32pp. Dillman, Don A., Nicholas L. Parsons and Taj Mahon-Haft. 2004. "Connections Between Optical Features and Respondent Friendly Design: Cognitive Interview Comparisons of the Census 2000 Form and New Possibilities." Social and Economic Sciences Research Center Technical Report 04-030. Washington State University. 86 pp. Dillman, Don A., Taj Mahon-Haft. 2004. "Will a Change in Appearance Influence How People Respond to a Decennial Census Replacement Form Mailing Package?" Social and Economic Sciences Research Center Technical Report 04-040. Washington State University: Pullman. 120 pp. Smyth, Jolene D., Don A. Dillman, Leah Melani Christian and Michael J. Stern. 2004. "How Visual Grouping Influences Answers to Internet Surveys." Social and Economic Science Research Center Technical Report 04-023. Washington State University: Pullman. 32 pp.

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