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PAST EVENTS

DC-AAPOR Annual Business Meeting
July 24th, 2008 at Gallup World Headquarters, 901 F Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20004


Politics and Polling
February 20th, 2008 at The Pew Research Center, 1615 L Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036

Danna Basson, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Jon Cohen, The Washington Post
Mark Blumenthal, Pollster.com

Focus Groups for Surveys: Short Course
December 14th, 2007 at The Urban Institute
Jennifer Edgar & Christine Rho

DC-AAPOR End-of-the-Year Celebration
December 12th, 2007 at Bobby Van's Steakhouse (15th Street)


Surveying Under Adverse Conditions
October 9th, 2007 at RTI International, 701 13th Street NW, Washington, DC
Caterina Roman, Urban Institute [slides]; Mollyann Brodie, Kaiser Family Foundation [slides]; Matthew Warshaw, D3 Systems [slides]; Joe Eyerman, RTI International & SAPOR (discussant) [slides]

26th Annual SAPOR Conference
October 4th, 2007 at NCSU University Club, Raleigh, NC


New Experiments on the Design of Complex Survey Questions
September 12th, 2007 at Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conference Room 1
Paul Beatty, NCHS [slides] and Floyd J. Fowler, UMass Boston [slides]

An Introduction to the State of the USA, Inc. (SUSA)
September 12th, 2007 at BLS Conference Room 1
Edward Sondik, National Center for Health Statistics (Chair); Christopher Hoenig, President and CEO, SUSA; Robert Groves, University of Michigan/JPSM; Jane Ross, National Research Council, The National Academies

Methodological Issues in Measuring Health Insurance Coverage and Costs
August 21st, 2007 at BLS Conference Center, Room 2
Joanne Pascale, U.S. Census Bureau; Timothy Triplett, Urban Institute; Anne Kearney, U.S. Census Bureau; David Kashihara, ARHQ (discussant) [slides]

DC-AAPOR Annual Program Planning Meeting & Happy Hour
June 21st, 2007 at Capitol City Brewing Company (Union Station)


The Role of Statistics and Statisticians in Human Rights
May 17th, 2007 at AAAS Headquarters Auditorium
David Banks, Duke University; Gary Shapiro, Westat; Paul Zador, Westat; Ariela Blätter, Amnesty International (Chair); Erik Voeten, George Washington University (Discussant)

Survey Sampling Short Course
April 27th, 2007 at RTI International, 701 13th Street NW, Washington, DC
Karol Krotki

Workshop on Nonresponse Bias in Household Surveys
March 30th, 2007 at Kaiser Family Foundation
Peter Miller, Robert Groves, Kristen Olson, Scott Keeter, Frauke Kreuter, Young Ik Cho, Katharine Abraham, Michael Brick, Michael Link, Eleanor Singer [slides] [report]

Happy Hour and AAPOR Sneak Peak
March 15th, 2007 at McCormick and Schmicks
Patricia Moy and Frank Newport

Measurement and Statistical Analysis of Human Rights: A Model
March 8th, 2007 at Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conference Center
Brian J. Grim, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

Mortality in Iraq
February 6th, 2007 at Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center
Dr. Graham Kalton, Westat (chair); Dr. Gilbert Burnham, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Bloomberg School of Public Health, JHU Ms Shannon Doocy, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Bloomberg School of Public Health, JHU Dr. Scott Zeger, Dept of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, JHU (speakers); Jana Asher, AAAS and Dr. David Marker, Westat (discussants)

Holiday Party
December 12th, 2006 at Bobby Van's Steakhouse


Sampling Short Course
November 8th, 2006 at RTI International, 701 13th Street NW, Washington, DC
Karol Krotki

Seminar on the Mid-term Elections
October 26th, 2006 at Pew Research Center
Scott Keeter , Director of Surveys at the Pew Research Center , Karlyn Bowman, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Amy Gershkoff, Senior Associate at Greenberg Quinlan Rossner Research

How to Steal an Election: Meet-the-author session with David Moore
October 18th, 2006 at University of California, Washington Center
David Moore; Murray Edelman (discussant)

What They See Is What You Get: Nuts and Bolts of Web Surveys
September 7th, 2006 at Pew Research Center
Reg Baker

Understanding Hispanic Respondents
August 17th, 2006 at The Pew Research Center
Roberto Suro, Director of the Pew Hispanic Center, and Manuel Benitez, Director of Operations of Latino Opinion

DCAAPOR Happy Hour/ Alumni Night
June 21st, 2006 at Ireland's Four Courts in Arlington


AAPOR Exhibition / Market Research Association (MRA) Annual Conference
June 14th, 2006 at J.W. Marriott Hotel
N/A

AAPOR 2006 Sneak Peek: DC AAPOR Happy Hour with AAPOR Executive Council
March 16th, 2006 at McCormick and Schmick’s Restaurant, 901 F Street, NW
David Moore and Patricia Moy

DC-AAPOR 2006 Program Planning Meeting and Happy Hour
February 2nd, 2006 at Pew Research Center
N/A

DC-AAPOR End of the Year Celebration
December 15th, 2005 at The Barking Dog
Hosted by DC-AAPOR

Weighting Short Course
October 20th, 2005 at Location: The Wilderness Society
Karol Krotki, Senior Research Statistician, RTI International

Panel on Privacy and Public Perception of Risks
September 28th, 2005 at Bureau of Labor Statistics (bring a photo ID)
Ari Schwartz, Associate Director, Center for Democracy and Technology; David Banks, Professor in Statistics, Duke University; Brian Dautch, Director of Government Affairs for the Council on Marketing and Opinion Research; Gerald Gates, Chief, Privacy Office for the US Census Bureau; Herb Lin, Senior Scientist, Senior Staff Officer for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council of the National Academies; Alvan O. Zarate, National Center for Health Statistics (Chair)

Meet the Author Session
September 20th, 2005 at Capital City Brewing Company (Postal Square Building)
Gordon Willis, Jennifer Rothgeb, and Betsy Martin

Happy Hour at the Barking Dog
July 21st, 2005 at The Barking Dog
Hosted by DC-AAPOR

Fourth Funding Opportunity Seminar in Survey and Statistical Research
June 13th, 2005 at BLS Conference Center
Paul Biemer, Malay Ghosh, Tapabrata Maiti, lan Heston, Robert Feenstra, Leonard Stefanski, Robert E. Fay

An Introduction to the American Time Use Survey
May 26th, 2005 at Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jay Stewart, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Katharine G. Abraham, JPSM (Chair)

Questionnaire Design Methodology for a Study of Human Rights Abuses
May 25th, 2005 at Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jana Asher, Carnegie Mellon University; Fritz Scheuren, NORC, University of Chicago (Discussant)

The Iowa State Poll: Its History and the Methodological Challenges of State Polls
May 19th, 2005 at Bureau of Labor Statistics
J. Ann Selzer, Ph.D.

Mortality Before and After the 2003 Invasion Of Iraq: Cluster Sample Survey
April 8th, 2005 at BLS Conference Center
Les Roberts, John Hopkins School of Medicine; Jana Asher, Carnegie Mellon University (Discussant); Wendy Rotz, Ernst & Young LLP (Chair)

Analysis of Nonresponse in Telephone Surveys
March 10th, 2005 at BLS Conference Center
Randal ZuWallack, Ronaldo Iachan, Leslyn Hall, ORC Macro International Inc.; John Dixon, BLS (Discussant); Roberta Sangster, BLS (Chair)

Pre-election Polls and the 2004 General Election
March 8th, 2005 at Bureau of Labor Statistics
Mark Schulman, Schulman, Ronca, and Bucuvalas; Frank Newport, The Gallup Organization; Scott Keeter, Pew Research Center; Clyde Tucker, Bureau of Labor Statistics (Chair)

Documenting Atrocities in Dafur
February 15th, 2005 at BLS Conference Center
Jonathan P. Howard, U.S. Department of State, and Stefanie Frease, Coalition for International Justice

DC-AAPOR 2005 Planning Meeting
February 8th, 2005 at BLS
Program Committee

Happy Hour
October 7th, 2004 at Capital City Brewing Company
N/A

Translation of Survey Instruments
July 7th, 2004 at BLS
Alisu Schoua-Glusberg

Mobile Telecomm. and Changes in Telephone Survey Methods
March 17th, 2004 at The Urban Institute
Charlotte Steeh, Ph.D.

Federal Regulations on Human Participant Protections
February 26th, 2004 at BLS Conference and Training Center (basement level)
Stephen Blumberg, PhD

GPS versus Travel Diary Data: A Study of Misreporting
January 15th, 2004 at BLS
Dr. Johanna Zmud, President, NuStats; Dr. Jean Wolfe, President, GeoStats

Survey Nonresponse Measurement Reconsidered
December 3rd, 2003 at BLS
Fritz Scheuren (NORC), Mike Dennis (Knowledge Networks), and Robie Sangster (BLS)

Exit Polls and the California Recall Election
November 12th, 2003 at BLS
Warren J. Mitofsky, Mitofsky International

An Overview of the New 2004 SIPP Instrument
October 23rd, 2003 at BLS
Pat Doyle, Anna Chan, Nancy Bates, Jeff Moore, and Joanne Pascale, U.S. Bureau of the Census

Deciding to Answer: The Ethnographic Context of Privacy and Confidentiality
June 26th, 2003 at BLS
Eleanor Gerber, Statistical Research Division, U.S. Census Bureau

The Second Seminar on the Funding Opportunity in Survey Research
June 9th, 2003 at BLS
Robert Fay, Monroe Sirken, Research Subcommittee of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology

Insights into the OMB Clearance Process for Survey Information Collections
May 7th, 2003 at BLS
Brian Harris-Kojetin and Karen Lee, OMB

Interviewer Falsification and Scientific Misconduct
April 15th, 2003 at BLS
Dr. Robert M. Groves, University of Michigan

The Impact of the Survey Introduction on Respondents: A Source of Reassurance or Reason for Heightened Anxiety
February 27th, 2003 at UI
Dr. Carolyn L. Funk, Virginia Commonwealth University

Web-Based Survey Experiment to Examine Public Response to Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Prescription Drug Advertising
November 20th, 2002 at BLS
Mollyann Brodie, Ph.D., Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Afghan Refugee Camp Surveys: Pakistan, 2002
October 17th, 2002 at BLS
James Bell, Ruth Citrin, David Nolle (U.S. Department of State) and Fritz Scheuren (NORC, University of Chicago)

Public Opinion Polling in the West Bank and Gaza
September 4th, 2002 at UI
Dr. Khalil Shikaki

Including Families with Limited English Proficiency in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
April 25th, 2002 at BLS
Brad Edwards

Incentives in Internet Surveys
April 9th, 2002 at BLS
Robert Tortora

Tests of Two Methods of Household Contact to Improve Survey Response Rates
March 13th, 2002 at BLS
Barbara O'Hare

An Investigation of Response Rates in Random Digit Dialed Telephone Surveys
January 23rd, 2002 at BLS
Brenda Cox, Daniel O'Connor, Kathryn Chandler

Privacy and Confidentiality Issues Related to Survey Data
December 5th, 2001 at GAO
Dr. Norman Bradburn

Attitudes Toward the War on Terrorism
October 26th, 2001 at BLS
Rich Morin

Understanding Respondents' Interpretation of the Vague Economic Concept "Cash"
July 25th, 2001 at BLS
Ashley Landreth & Eileen O'Brien

The Polling Lessons of Campaign 2000
June 20th, 2001 at BLS
Andrew Kohut

The American Public On Its Role in Public Policy
May 22nd, 2001 at UI
Steven Kull

Methodological Issues Involved in Doing Research on Catholics and the Catholic Church
March 28th, 2001 at UI
Mary L. Gautier

Evaluation of a New Methodology and Technology for Measuring Respondent Compliance with a Survey Task
February 9th, 2001 at UI
Brian Harris-Kojetin




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