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Ying Wang
M.S. student
SRAM minor:
 Statistics
Enrolled in dual major::
No
Dual major in:
 -
Resume:
 
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Contact information:
 yingwang@huskers.unl.edu
Expected graduation:
 Spring 2010
Brief Bio:
 Ying Wang is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Survey Research and Methodology Program at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She completed her BA in Russian at Nanjing University in China in 2004. From 2004 to 2006 she was Personal Assistant to the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation in Shanghai. In AY 2007/2008 she began her studies at UNL in the Department of Educational Psychology, before joining the SRAM program. She is currently working with Janet Harkness on a project using ESS and WMHI questions to investigate interpreting in telephone interviews. Ying has also been working with Dr. Kristen Olson on item nonresponse using NAAL data.
Journal/Conference papers presented:
  • Developing a coding scheme for interpreted interviews
    Author(s): Villar, Ana; Harkness, Janet; Kruse, Yelena Kruse; Steele, Clarissa; and Wang, Ying
    Sixth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation, March 2009 - Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • Using Interpreters in Telephone Surveys
    Author(s): Harkness, Janet; Villar, Ana; Kruse, Yelena; Steele, Clarissa; Wang, Ying; Branden, Laura; Edwards, Brad
    AAPOR. May 2009 - Hollywood, FL, USA.
  • Development of a new scale to measure literacy without a reading assessment
    Author(s): Pearson, Jennie E.; Wang, Ying; Olson, Kristen; Smyth, Jolene D.
    AAPOR. May 2009 - Hollywood, FL, USA.
  • A Comparison Study of Methodologies of Exit Polls between Taiwan and the U.S.
    Author(s): Tang, Ge; Wang, Yeh-Diing; Bautista, René
    AAPOR. May 2009 - Hollywood, FL, USA.