PAST EVENTS
| Happy Hour at Science Club June 3rd, 2010 at Science Club DC, 1136 19th St NW Washington DC None |
| MockPOR with JPSM- AAPOR conference preview May 10th, 2010 at Lefrak Hall, University of Maryland Stephanie Eckman, Jenna Fulton and Frauke Kreuter, Brady West, and Casey Tesfaye |
| Washington Statistical Society/DC-AAPOR Seminar: Is it Culturally Ethical? Human Rights Challenges in International Survey Research April 26th, 2010 at Pew Research Center 1615 L Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC Safaa Amer, Senior Statistician, NORC at the University of Chicago [slides] Mary Gray, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, American University [slides] |
| Panel on same sex marriage and civil unions March 2nd, 2010 at Urban Institute - 2100 M St NW Washington, DC 20037 |
| The Challenges of Conducting the Census 2010 ------ This event is now fully booked -- RSVP to be placed on the waiting list January 21st, 2010 at Pew Research Center 1615 L Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC Dr. Robert Groves, Director, U.S. Census Bureau [ Robert Groves transcript, Robert Groves audio, Jeffrey S Passel transcript , Joseph Salvo transcript, Constance F Citro transcript] |
| Geographic Information (GIS) Data Collection and Storage (co-sponsored with WSS) December 16th, 2009 at 12:30-2:00pm Chuck Roberts, ESRI Federal Account Manager and Tosia Shall, ESRI Sales Engineer [slides]; Rick Mueller, Head/Spatial Analysis Research, National Agricultural Statistics Service [slides] |
| DC-AAPOR Holiday Party December 9th, 2009 at Acadiana, 901 New York Avenue, NW, W, DC 20001 |
| SHORT COURSE: Analysis of Cognitive Interviews December 4th, 2009 at BLS Conference Center Gordon Willis, National Cancer Institute, NIH |
| Panel on Address‐Based Sampling (co-sponsored with WSS) November 10th, 2009 at BLS Conference Center Anna Fleeman‐Elhini, Arbitron Inc. [slides]; Michael Link, Nielsen Media Research [slides]; Jill Montaquila, Westat [slides]; and Robert Poole, BLS [slides] |
| SHORT COURSE: Practical Tools for Non-Response Bias Studies November 6th, 2009 at Pew Research Center (1615 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036) Kristen Olson and Jill Montaquila |
| The Sociolinguistics of Survey Translation (co-sponsored with WSS) October 8th, 2009 at BLS Conference Center Yuling Pan [slides], Eileen O'Brien [slides] |
| Current Issues in Cognitive Interviews: State of the Art/Science September 18th, 2009 at U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20212-0001 Gordon Willis, National Cancer Institute, NIH |
| DC-AAPOR Workshop on Web Survey Methods September 10th, 2009 at Kaiser Family Foundation, 1330 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005 Mick Couper, Mario Callegaro [slides], Don Dillman, Robin Gentry [slides], Frauke Kreuter [slides], Larry Malakhoff [slides], Jennifer Romano [slides], Vera Toepoel [slides], Roger Tourangeau [slides] |
| Health Care Reform and Public Opinion August 19th, 2009 at Pew Research Center, 1615 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 Scott Keeter [slides], Claudia Deane [slides], Amy Walter Video from the seminar |
| Pre-Election Polling Panel July 23rd, 2009 at ESSI Conference Room, 1990 K Street NW Mark Blumenthal, Glen Bolger, Mark Mellman |
| Summer Planning Meeting June 25th, 2009 at BLS, 2 Massachusetts Ave, NE |
| Current State of Telephony in the U.S. June 15th, 2009 at Gordon Biersch Brewery, 900 F Street, NW Stephen Blumberg [slides] |
| The Future of Telephone Surveys (co-sponsored with WSS) May 20th, 2009 at BLS Clyde Tucker, BLS [slides]; Scott Keeter, Pew; Karol Krotki, RTI International [slides] |
| Preview of Upcoming AAPOR Presentations April 29th, 2009 at BLS Conference Center, 2 Mass. Ave, NE |
| Introduction to Survey Sampling April 28th, 2009 at Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, NW, W, DC 20037 Karol Krotki |
| Practical Issues in Cell Phone Polling April 16th, 2009 at Pew Research Center, 1615 L Street, NW Suite 700 Scott Keeter, Leah Christian and Michael Dimock [slides] |
| Meet the Author: David Moore March 26th, 2009 at Gordon Biersch Brewery 900 F Street, NW David Moore |
| Meet the AAPOR Executive Council March 12th, 2009 at Teatro Goldoni (1909 K Street, NW) |
| AAPOR Standards for Minimum Disclosure March 12th, 2009 at 1990 K St, NW Mary Losch, PhD [slides] |
| 2009 DC-AAPOR Planning Meeting February 11th, 2009 at Gordon Biersch (900 F Street, NW) |
| 2009 Short Course on Incentives January 27th, 2009 at Urban Institute 2100 M Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20037 Paul J. Lavrakas, Ph.D |
| DC-AAPOR Holiday Party December 10th, 2008 at Bobby Van's Steakhouse, 809 15th Street, NW |
| 2008 Sampling Short Course November 25th, 2008 at RTI International, 701 13th Street NW, Suite 750 Karol Krotki |
| WARREN J. MITOFSKY AWARD DINNER presented by The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research November 13th, 2008 at |
| Usability of Electronic Voting and Public Opinion about the New Technology October 24th, 2008 at Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conference Center Frederick Conrad and Michael Traugott, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan [slides] Chair: Kathy Downey, Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| The Increasing Difficulty of Obtaining Personal Interviews in the United States Ever Changing Social Environment October 23rd, 2008 at Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center William Wayne Hatcher, Regional Director, Charlotte Region, Census Bureau Discussant: Terry P. O'Connor, Head, Data Quality Research Section, National Agricultural Statistics Service/USDA Chair: Marilyn Worthy, Energy Information Administration |
| Metadata from the Data Collection Point of View September 10th, 2008 at Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center Daniel Gillman, Information Scientist, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| Workshop on Cell Phone Numbers and Telephone Surveying in the U.S. September 4th, 2008 at Kaiser Family Foundation, 1330 G Street, NW List of speakers available on Cell Phone Workshop Agenda |
| 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 Bltter, 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 Schmicks 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 |
| Unfortunately, there are no records on events held prior to 2001. |