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Survey Research And Methodology Program

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RESEARCH

List of conference presentations and publications.
 
 
 
Research Papers

Mode or Mench?

Author(s): McCutcheon, A., Bautista,R., Jiao, R. ,Zeng, W., Serrano, E.

AAPOR. 2007 - Anaheim, CA, USA

Fitting disposition codes to mobile phone surveys: Experiences from studies in Finland, Slovenia, and the United States.

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Steeh, C., Buskirk, T.D., Vehovar, V., Kuusela, V., Piekarski, L.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 170.

Cross-National Harmonisation of Socio-Demographic Variables in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP).

Author(s): Bilgen, I., Evi, S.

AAPOR. 2007 - Anaheim, CA, USA

Do different modes lead respondents to give different answers?: Characteristics of questions that lead to response differences.

Author(s): Jiao, R., Bautista,R., Zeng, W., McCutcheon, A., Serrano, E.

AAPOR. 2007 - Anaheim, CA, USA

Using text messages in U.S. mobile phone surveys

Author(s): Steeh, C., Buskirk, T. D., Callegaro, M.

Field Methods, 19: 59-75.

U.S. Public Opinion about Arab States: Examining the Differences in National Images

Author(s): Becker, L., Nada, A., McCutcheon, A., Kaminska, O., Vlad, T.

MAPOR. 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

Coding verbal behaviors to measure data quality in interviews collected with conventional questionnaires and event history calendar.

Author(s): Callegaro, M.

University of Essex. 2007

Changes in seam effects magnitude due to changes in question wording and data collection strategies.

Author(s): Callegaro, M.

AAPOR. 2007 - Anaheim, CA, USA

Social aspects of mobile phone usage and their impact on survey cooperation.

Author(s): Vehovar, V., Callegaro, M.

AAPOR. 2007 - Anaheim, CA, USA

The Effect of a Pre-Notification Letter on Response Rate in a Mail Survey Depending on the Number of Contacts.

Author(s): Kaminska, O., Goeminne, B., Swyngedouw, M.

AAPOR. 2007 - Anaheim, CA, USA

Best Mix of Modes

Author(s): Kaminska, O., Bautista, R., Serrano, E.

AAPOR. 2007 - Anaheim, CA, USA

Everybody’s Talkin’: The impact of verbal behaviors in conventional and event-history calendar interviews.

Author(s): Marincic, J., Belli, R., Bilgen, I.

AAPOR. 2007 - Anaheim, CA, USA

Social Desirability, Faulty Memory, and Satisficing in Vote Over-Reporting: A Cross-National Comparison of the American and British Electorates.

Author(s): McCutcheon, A., Bilgen, I., Belli, R., Bautista, R.

AAPOR. 2007 - Anaheim, CA, USA

Survey Translation Management Technologies

Author(s): Mohler, P., Harkness, J., Dinkelmann, K., Pennell, B.

the Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). March 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

Developing Answer Scales in Multilingual Studies

Author(s): Harkness, J., Chin, T., Yang, Y., Bilgen, I., Villar, A., Zeng, W., and members of the ISSP Questionnaire Design & Translation work groups

the Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). March 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

Cultural Variability in Event History Calendar and Conventional Questionnaire Interviews

Author(s): Belli, R.F., Callegaro, M.

the Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). March 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

What Matters when Measuring Mode Preferences?

Author(s): Zeng, W., Kaminska, O.

MAPOR. 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

I Just Switched - Who is Switching from a Landline Phone Household to Cell Phone-Only Household?

Author(s): Rao, K., Kaminska, O., Buskirk, T.

MAPOR. 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

Is Satisficing a Slippery Slope? An Investigation into the Effects of Satisficing When Answering Questions in a Mail Survey.

Author(s): Rao, K., Kaminska, O.

MAPOR. 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

Measuring Satisficing in a Face-to-Face Mode

Author(s): Kaminska, O., Billiet, J.

MAPOR. 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

Student discourse in web-based case discussion: Effect of prompts for self-explanation and gender differences.

Author(s): Liu, X., Bruning, R., Li, L., Meng, Y.

AERE. 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA

Mixed-Mode Effects: a Multilevel Approach

Author(s): Emilio Serrano, Olena Kaminska, Allan McCutcheon, Robert Manchin

AAPOR. Anaheim, California, May, 2007

The Effect of a Pre-Notification Letter on Response Rate in a Mail Survey Depending on the Number of Contacts

Author(s): Olena Kaminska, Bart Goeminne, Marc Swyngedouw

AAPOR. Anaheim, California, May, 2007

Comparison of a Multidimensional Coding Scheme and a Selective Coding Scheme on the Same Standardized and EHC Interviews.

Author(s): Meng, Y., Ongena, Y., Belli, R., Kruse, Y.

AAPOR. 2007 - Anaheim, CA, USA

Satisficing among Reluctant Respondents in a Cross-National Context

Author(s): Olena Kaminska, Jaak Billiet

European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Conference. Prague, Czech Republic. Republic, July, 2007 Republic, July, 2007

Where Do Survey Questions Come From?: And where should they come from?

Author(s): Hansen, S.E., Harkness, J. (alphabetical)

the Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). March 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

Answer Scales, Translation and Response Styles

Author(s): Villar, A.

the Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). March 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

Guidelines for Best Practice in Cross-Cultural Surveys

Author(s): Alcser, K., Clemens, J., Lien, C., Pennell, B., (ISR); Harkness, J., Villar, A., Bilgen, I. (UNL)

the Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). March 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

Using Cognitive Testing Techniques to Examine Question Comparability

Author(s): Miller, K., Willis, G., Harkness, J.

the Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). March 2007 - Chicago, IL, USA.

Best Combination of Modes

Author(s): Olena Kaminska, Rene Bautista, Emilio Serrano

AAPOR. Anaheim, California, May, 2007 California, May, 2007 California, May, 2007

Conducting a branding survey of cell phone users and non users. The Vox Populi experience in Brazil.

Author(s): Roldăo, L., Callegaro, M.

Second Telephone Survey Methodology Conference. 2006 - Miami, FL, USA

Who's Calling? The impact of caller-ID on telephone survey response.

Author(s): Callegaro, M., McCutcheon, A., Ludwig, J.

Second Telephone Survey Methodology Conference. 2006 - Miami, FL, USA

Determinants of exit poll level of refusal and accuracy in the 2006 Mexican national elections.

Author(s): Bautista, R., Callegaro, M., Vera, J. A., Abundis, F.

The 17th International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse. 2006 - Omaha, NE, USA

Using advance notices to increase telephone survey cooperation.

Author(s): Callegaro, M.

The CMOR Respondent Cooperation Workshop. 2006 - San Antonio, TX, USA

Collecting data with Event History Calendar.

Author(s): Callegaro, M.

The Association of Public Data Users annual conference. 2006 - Alexandria, VA, USA

An application of the new measure of poll accuracy (A) to the Italian context. Published poll accuracy for the 2006 and 2001 Italian Parliamentary Elections.

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Gasperoni, G.

MAPOR. 2006 – Chicago, IL, USA

“A Study of Panel Member Attrition in the Gallup Panel”

Author(s): Sayles, H., Arens, Z.

MAPOR. 2006 - Chicago, IL, USA

Cross-National Harmonisation of Socio-Demographic Variables in the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP).

Author(s): Bilgen, I., Evi, S.

MAPOR. 2006 - Chicago, IL, USA

Cultural variablility in event history calendar and conventional questionnaire interviews: A verbal behavior analysis.

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Belli, R., Serrana, E., Palmer, D.

Proceedings of ASA. 2006.

The Relation of Attachment to Possessions to Object Symbolism and Commitment to Developmental Tasks.

Author(s): Jiao, R., Ball, D.

MAPOR. 2006 - Chicago, IL, USA

What is Event History Calendar and its quality when compared to conventional questionnaire data collection.

Author(s): Callegaro, M.

The Survey Research Division Seminar, U.S. Census Bureau. 2006 - Washington, DC, USA

Assessing the impact of refusals and Election Day Factors on exit poll estimates: Evidence from the 2006 Mexican Presidential Election.

Author(s): Bautista, R., Callegaro, M., Vera, J. A., Abundis, F.

MAPOR. 2006 – Chicago, IL, USA

Do you hear what I hear? Verbal behavior coding of event-history calendar and conventional interviews

Author(s): Marincic, J., Belli, R.

MAPOR. 2006 - Chicago, IL, USA

A history of calendar and time line methods: Lesson learned, fields of application and best practices.

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Belli, R.

The Using Calendar and Diary Methodologies in Life Event Research Conference. 2006 - Ann Arbor, MI, USA

“Self-Reported Media Exposure and Political Opinions: Findings from the 2004 American National Election Study”

Author(s): Sayles, H.

MAPOR. 2006 - Chicago, IL, USA

The Development of a Multivariate Coding Scheme for Evaluation of Event History Calendar and Standardized Interviews.

Author(s): Ongena,Y., Kruse,Y., Bautista,R., Perez Berestycki,J.

MAPOR. 2006 - Chicago, IL, USA

Satisficing in a Mail Survey: Early versus Late Responses.

Author(s): Kaminska, O., Goeminne, B., Swyngedouw, M.

MAPOR. 2006 - Chicago, IL, USA

Understanding Effects of Different English to Spanish Translations: A case study of ISSP attitudinal questions

Author(s): Villar, A., Bautista, R., Palmer, D., Abundis, F., Harkness, J.

AAPOR. 2006 - Montreal, Canada.

What happens when you start working on guidelines

Author(s): Harkness, J.

International Test Commission. 2006 - Brussels, Belgium.

Oral translation in telephone surveys

Author(s): Harkness, J., Schoebi, N., Joye, D. Mohler, P., Faass, T.

Second Telephone Survey Methodology Conference. 2006 - Miami, FL, USA.

A study of seam effect in panel data collected with Event History Calendar methodology.

Author(s): Callegaro, M.

The Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys International conference. 2006 - University of Essex, UK.

Why respondents understand what they understand: cross-cultural perspectives on respondent perception and response

Author(s): Harkness, J.

AAPOR. 2006 - Montreal, Canada.

The International Social Social Survey Porgramme

Author(s): Harkness, J.

The Opening Celebrations for The Social Science Research Centre FUNGELODE. 2006 - Dominican Republic.

Verbal Behaviors in Event History Calendar and Question-List Interviews: Interactions with Respondents' Race

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Belli, B., Palmer, D.

AAPOR. 2006 - Montreal, Canada.

Little things matter sometimes: Effects of survey translation

Author(s): Bautista, R., Villar, A., Palmer, D. Abundis, F., Harkness, J.

CSDI. 2006 - The Hague, Netherlands.

Understanding Vote Over-Reporting, a Case Study: The British General Elections of 1992, 1997, and 2001

Author(s): Bilgen, I., McCutcheon, A., Belli, R., Bautista, R.

AAPOR. 2006 - Montreal, Canada.

The Influence of advance letters on response in telephone surveys: A meta-analysis.

Author(s): de Leeuw, E., Joop, H., Korendijk, E., Mulders, G., Callegaro, M.

ISA RC 33 Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology Proceedings.

Developments and challenges in comparative survey research

Author(s): Mohler, P. Harkness, J.

JOS 2005 - Stockholm, Sweden.

Producing Questionnaires for Multiple Population Studies

Author(s): Harkness, J. ,B. Edwards D. Joye

Invited Conference on Mixed Modes. 2005 - Basle University, Switzerland.

Translation, Quality, and Source Questionnaires

Author(s): Harkness, J.

The European Union Women in Engineering Open Workshop. 2005 - Kosice, Slovakia.

Response latency as an indicator of optimizing. A study comparing job applicants >and job incumbents' response time on a web survey.

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Yang, Y., Bhola, D., Dillman, D.

ISA RC 33 Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology Proceedings.

Calculating outcome rates for mobile phone surveys. A proposal of a modified AAPOR standard and its application to three case studies

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Buskirk, T., Piekarski, L., Vehovar, V., Kuusela, V., Steeh, C.

ISA RC 33 Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology Proceedings.

Where can I call you? The 'mobile' revolution and its impact on survey research and coverage error: discussing the Italian case

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Poggio, T.

ISA RC 33 Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology Proceedings.

Oral Translation and Interpreting in Surveys

Author(s): Harkness, J.

Babyulong Institute Seminar Series. 2005 - Tilburg University, Netherlands.

Party ID Weighting - Experiments to Improve Survey

Author(s): Kaminska, O., Barnes, C.

AAPOR. 2005 -Miami, FL, USA

Comparison of computerized event history calendar and question-list interviewing methods: A two year hospitalization history study.

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Yu, M., Cheng, F.-W., Liao, D., Belli, R. F.

Proceedings of ASA. 2004.

Understanding Vote Over-Reporting, a Case Study: The British General Elections of 1992, 1997, and 2001

Author(s): Bilgen, I., McCutcheon, A., Bautista, R.

MAPOR. 2005 - Chicago, IL, USA.

Verbal behaviors in event history calendar and question-list interviews: Interactions with respondent characteristics.

Author(s): Belli, R., Callegaro, M., Liao, D.

The First Annual Conference of The European Association for Survey Research (EASR). 2005 - Barcelona, SPAIN

Some Elements Behind Trust in Government: Toward an Explanatory Model

Author(s): Bautista, R., Palmer, D.

AAPOR. 2005 -Miami, FL, USA

Cell phone surveying and response rate calculations.

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Buskirk, T. D., Steeh, C., Piekarski, L., Vehovar, V., Kuusela, V.

The Cell Phone Sampling Summit II, 2005 - New York City, USA

Cross-national Measurement of Religion Effects on Public Attitude Toward Science and Technology in European New Member Countries.

Author(s): Palmer, D. Liao, D., Jiang, L., Liu, S., McCutcheon, A.

AAPOR. 2005 -Miami, FL, USA

A Probability-Theory Based Test of the Reliability of Election Polls

Author(s): Bloom Joel, Pearson, J.

AAPOR. 2005 -Miami, FL, USA

Attitude Toward Science and Technology in European New Member Countries: a Cross-national Study.

Author(s): Liao, D., Jiang, L., Palmer, D. Liu, S. McCutcheon, A.

AAPOR. 2005 -Miami, FL, USA

Text 2 U: Contacting wireless subscribers using text messaging and wireless web for mobile phone surveys

Author(s): Buskirk, T., Callegaro, M., Steeh, C.

Proceedings of ASA. 2004.

Instrument Translation, Adaptation and Cultural Tailoring

Author(s): Harkness, J.

International Congress of Psychology. 2004 – Beijing, China.

Comparison of Computerized Event History Calendar and Question-list Interviewing Methods: A Two-year Hospitalization Study

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Yu, M., Cheng, F., Liao, D., Belli, R.

AAPOR/WAPOR. 2004 - Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Espansione della telefonia mobile ed errore di copertura nelle inchieste telefoniche [Mobile telephone growth and coverage error in telephone surveys].

Author(s): Mario Callegaro, and T. Poggio

Polis, 18(3), 499-528.

Interviewer effect in a RDD telephone preelection poll in Minneapolis 2001. An analysis of race and gender of the interviewer effect.

Author(s): Callegaro, M., De Keulenaer, F., Krosnick, J.A., Daves, R.

MAPOR. 2004 – Chicago, IL, USA.

Modeling the Predictors of Response Rates for the HEDIS/CAHPS 3.0H Survey

Author(s): Chang, M., Halim, S.

AAPOR. 2004 – Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Verbal behaviors in event history calendar and question-list interviews: Interactions with respondent characteristics

Author(s): Callegaro, M., Belli, R., Liao, D. Hjermstad, E.