Pew Research Center at AAPOR agenda:
Pew Research Center experts will present multiple papers at the 2021 annual AAPOR conference, held virtually from May 11-14.
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Tuesday, May 11
Opening Plenary: 10:00 AM EDT, held live
- Director of Survey Research Courtney Kennedy will moderate the opening conference session titled, “Polling the Electorate During a Pandemic,” examining what was learned about the electorate, voting, election night, and polling in general from the 2020 election season.
Consuming the News: 11:30 AM EDT, with live Q&A at 1:00 PM
- Senior Researcher Michael Barthel, Research Methodologist Dorene Asare-Marfo and Research Assistant Kirsten Worden will present “Measuring News Consumption in a Digital Era.”
- Related report: Measuring News Consumption in a Digital Era
Qualitative Research Methods and Applications: 11:30 AM EDT, with live Q&A at 1:00 PM
- Research Analyst Kelsey Starr will present “Defining Modernity in Developing India: How Peoples’ Conceptual Understanding of ‘Modernity’ and ’Modernization’ Affects Survey Research.”
AAPI Research & Affinity Group Coffee Break: 1:30 PM EDT, held live
- Associate Director of Race and Ethnicity Research Neil Ruiz will host the second gathering of the AAPI Research & Affinity Group, a voluntary AAPOR association with members who are of Asian-American or Pacific Islander origin or are interested in AAPI research topics.
Mini-Conference: Response Patterns Before and During a Pandemic: 3:00 PM EDT, held live
- Research Methodologist Martha McRoy will present “Examining Response Rates Across Time in A Multinational Telephone Survey – Before and During the Coronavirus Pandemic.”
Wednesday, May 12
Round Table 2: 10:00 AM EDT, held live
- Associate Director of Race and Ethnicity Research Neil Ruiz will speak during a roundtable discussion titled, “Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Survey Participation: Challenges and Strategies.”
Question Wording Experiments: 10:30 AM EDT, with live Q&A at 12:00 PM
- Senior Survey Research Methodologist Ashley Amaya will present “Does Adding a Third Gender Response Option Really Improve Measurement?”
- Related analysis: Adapting how we ask about the gender of our survey respondents
- Research Analyst Kelsey Starr will present “How to Ask About Caste Attitudes in India: Results from a Split Form Experiment.”
Thursday, May 13
Topics in Probability Panel Surveys: 9:30 AM EDT, with live Q&A at 11:00 AM
- Director of Survey Research Courtney Kennedy will present “Using a (Relatively) High Response Rate ABS Survey to Calibrate Online Panels on Attitudinal Outcomes.”
- Related analysis: Pew Research Center’s National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS)
- Senior Panel Manager Nick Bertoni will present “Using IVR to Increase Response Rates for Non-Internet Households in the American Trends Panel.”
Mini-Conference: Data Collection in Developing and Middle-Income Countries During and After COVID-19: 10:00 AM EDT, held live
- Senior Survey Manager Clark Letterman will moderate a panel titled, “Data Collection in Developing and Middle-Income Countries During and After COVID-19.”
Innovative Approaches in Targeting and Adapting Data Collection Efforts: 1:00 PM EDT, with live Q&A at 2:30 PM
- Research Methodologist Alexandra Castillo will present, “The Impact of Callback Attempts on Sample Profile and Substantive Outcomes: A Cross-national, European Review.”
Mini-Conference: A Meeting Place and More…: A History of the American Association for Public Opinion Research: 1:30 PM EDT, held live
- Senior Survey Advisor Scott Keeter will discuss his contributions to a recent book on the history of AAPOR.
Mini-Conference: Understanding the Electorate Through Pre-election Polls: 1:30 PM EDT, held live
- Senior Researcher Ana Gonzalez-Barrera will present, “Latinos in the 2020 Presidential Election: Was there a Trump effect?”
Sampling, Recruiting and Frame Construction for Telephone Surveys: 3:00 PM EDT, held live
- Research Methodologist Alexandra Castillo will present, “The Variability in Sample Accuracy, Coverage and Efficiency of ‘Pulsing’ Sample for European CATI Over Time.”
Friday, May 14
Testing Response Formats: 11:30 AM EDT, with live Q&A at 1:00 PM
- Research Associate Anna Brown will present “Origin and Identity: Analyzing a New 2020 Census Response Option.”
Strategies for Panel Management and Sample Representation: 1:30 PM EDT, with live Q&A at 3:00 PM
- Senior Panel Manager Nick Bertoni will moderate a session titled “Strategies for Panel Management and Sample Representation.”
- Senior Survey Advisor Scott Keeter will present “Gauging Nonresponse Bias in Recruitment to a Probability-Based Online Panel.”
Mini-Conference: Measuring and Tracking Attitudes and Behaviors Throughout the Pandemic: 2:00 PM EDT, held live
- Senior Researcher Ruth Igielnik will present “Longitudinal Data and Coronavirus: How Americans’ Lives and Views May Have Changed (or not) as a Result of the Pandemic.”
