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View article: The Urban–Rural Digital Divide in Internet Access and Online Activities During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
The Urban–Rural Digital Divide in Internet Access and Online Activities During the COVID‐19 Pandemic Open
The COVID‐19 pandemic rapidly shifted traditionally in‐person interactions to online. Because rural residents historically have lower rates of broadband internet access, they may have been less likely to conduct activities online than thei…
View article: The Effects of Spanish-Language Materials in a Local Area ABS Mixed-Mode Survey on Response Rates and Sample Composition: An Experiment
The Effects of Spanish-Language Materials in a Local Area ABS Mixed-Mode Survey on Response Rates and Sample Composition: An Experiment Open
Including respondents who speak languages other than English is crucial for accurately representing the population. Past experiments in the United States have often focused on geographic areas with high concentrations of Spanish-language s…
View article: Listening to the Voices of America
Listening to the Voices of America Open
We make the case for building a permanent public-use platform for conducting and analyzing immersive interviews on the everyday lives of Americans. The American Voices Project (AVP)—a widely watched experiment with this new platform—provid…
View article: Listening to the Voices of America
Listening to the Voices of America Open
We make the case for building a permanent public-use platform for conducting and analyzing immersive interviews on the everyday lives of Americans. The American Voices Project (AVP)—a widely watched experiment with this new platform—provid…
View article: Your Best Estimate is Fine. Or is It?
Your Best Estimate is Fine. Or is It? Open
Providing an exact answer to open-ended numeric questions can be a burdensome task for respondents. Researchers often assume that adding an invitation to estimate (e.g., “Your best estimate is fine”) to these questions reduces cognitive bu…
View article: A Message from the Editors
A Message from the Editors Open
In June 2021, JSSAM received its opening impact factor (1.957 for 2020), ranking JSSAM as 46/125 in Statistics and Probability and 29/52 in Social Sciences Mathematical Methods.This ranking is especially gratifying given the relative youth…
View article: LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications
LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications Open
We present LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications. LaMDA is a family of Transformer-based neural language models specialized for dialog, which have up to 137B parameters and are pre-trained on 1.56T words of public dialog data and …
View article: Chapter 20: What do interviewers learn?Changes in interview length and interviewer behaviors over the field period.Appendix 20
Chapter 20: What do interviewers learn?Changes in interview length and interviewer behaviors over the field period.Appendix 20 Open
Appendix 20A Full Model Coefficients and Standard Errors Predicting Count of Questions with Individual Interviewer Behaviors, Two-level Multilevel Poisson Models with Number of Questions Asked as Exposure Variable, WLT1 and WLT2 Analytic s…
View article: How Well Do Interviewers Record Responses to Numeric, Interviewer Field-code, and Open-ended Narrative Questions in Telephone Surveys?
How Well Do Interviewers Record Responses to Numeric, Interviewer Field-code, and Open-ended Narrative Questions in Telephone Surveys? Open
Telephone survey interviewers need to be able to accurately record answers to questions. While straightforward for closed questions, this task can be complicated for open questions. We examine interviewer recording accuracy rates from a na…
View article: The Effect of Question Characteristics on Question Reading Behaviors in Telephone Surveys
The Effect of Question Characteristics on Question Reading Behaviors in Telephone Surveys Open
Asking questions fluently, exactly as worded, and at a reasonable pace is a fundamental part of a survey interviewer’s role. Doing so allows the question to be asked as intended by the researcher and may decrease the risk of measurement er…
View article: Comments on “How Errors Cumulate: Two Examples” by Roger Tourangeau
Comments on “How Errors Cumulate: Two Examples” by Roger Tourangeau Open
This paper provides a discussion of the Tourangeau (2019) Morris Hansen Lecture paper. I address issues related to compounding errors in web surveys and the relationship between nonresponse and measurement errors. I provide a potential mod…
View article: Short Message Service Surveying With Homeless Youth: Findings From a 30-Day Study of Sleeping Arrangements and Well-Being
Short Message Service Surveying With Homeless Youth: Findings From a 30-Day Study of Sleeping Arrangements and Well-Being Open
Little is known about the location and consistency of sleeping arrangements among youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) and how this is linked to their well-being. This study addresses this gap using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) v…
View article: Effects of a Government-Academic Partnership: Has the NSF-CENSUS Bureau Research Network Helped Improve the US Statistical System?
Effects of a Government-Academic Partnership: Has the NSF-CENSUS Bureau Research Network Helped Improve the US Statistical System? Open
The National Science Foundation-Census Bureau Research Network (NCRN) was established in 2011 to create interdisciplinary research nodes on methodological questions of interest and significance to the broader research community and to the …
View article: Examining the Feasibility of Ecological Momentary Assessment Using Short Message Service Surveying with Homeless Youth
Examining the Feasibility of Ecological Momentary Assessment Using Short Message Service Surveying with Homeless Youth Open
We assessed the feasibility of ecological momentary assessment using short message service (SMS) surveying with 150 homeless youth. We found that on average, participants completed 18.8 days of texts, but 30% of youth ( N = 44) had texting…
View article: An Analysis of Interviewer Travel and Field Outcomes in Two Field Surveys
An Analysis of Interviewer Travel and Field Outcomes in Two Field Surveys Open
In this article, we investigate the relationship between interviewer travel behavior and field outcomes, such as contact rates, response rates, and contact attempts in two studies, the National Survey of Family Growth and the Health and Re…
View article: Understanding the Link between Victimization and Alcohol Use among Homeless Youth Using Ecological Momentary Assessment
Understanding the Link between Victimization and Alcohol Use among Homeless Youth Using Ecological Momentary Assessment Open
Most prior research on victimization and alcohol use among homeless youth is retrospective and thus does not allow researchers to determine the sequencing of these events. We address this gap using ecological momentary assessment via short…
View article: An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States
An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States Open
The 2016 presidential election was a jarring event for polling in the United States. Preelection polls fueled high-profile predictions that Hillary Clinton’s likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent, with estimates ranging…
View article: Effects of a Government-Academic Partnership: Has the NSF-Census Bureau Research Network Helped Secure the Future of the Federal Statistical System?
Effects of a Government-Academic Partnership: Has the NSF-Census Bureau Research Network Helped Secure the Future of the Federal Statistical System? Open
This paper began as a May 8, 2015 presentation to the National Academies of Science’s Committee on National Statistics by two of the principal investigators of the National Science Foundation-Census Bureau Research Network (NCRN) – John Ab…
View article: Within-Household Selection in Mail Surveys
Within-Household Selection in Mail Surveys Open
Randomly selecting a single adult within a household is one of the biggest challenges facing mail surveys. Yet obtaining a probability sample of adults within households is critical to having a probability sample of the US adult population…
View article: Do Interviewer Postsurvey Evaluations of Respondents’ Engagement Measure Who Respondents Are or What They Do? A Behavior Coding Study
Do Interviewer Postsurvey Evaluations of Respondents’ Engagement Measure Who Respondents Are or What They Do? A Behavior Coding Study Open
Survey interviewers are often tasked with assessing the quality of respondents’ answers after completing a survey interview. These interviewer observations have been used to proxy for measurement error in interviewer-administered surveys. …
View article: Improving Survey Methods: Lessons from Recent Research
Improving Survey Methods: Lessons from Recent Research Open
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View article: The Utility of GPS data in Assessing Interviewer Travel Behavior and Errors in Level-of-Effort Paradata
The Utility of GPS data in Assessing Interviewer Travel Behavior and Errors in Level-of-Effort Paradata Open
Surveys are a critical resource for social, economic, and health research. The ability to efficiently collect these data and develop accurate post-survey adjustments depends upon reliable data about effort required to recruit sampled units…
View article: Risk factors for HIV among Zambian street youth
Risk factors for HIV among Zambian street youth Open
The sub-Saharan African region has been disproportionately affected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Zambia has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates within this region. Moreover, new incidences of HIV infection are increasing m…
View article: Do Interviewers with High Cooperation Rates Behave Differently? Interviewer Cooperation Rates and Interview Behaviors
Do Interviewers with High Cooperation Rates Behave Differently? Interviewer Cooperation Rates and Interview Behaviors Open
Interviewers are required to be flexible in responding to respondent concerns during recruitment, but standardized during administration of the questionnaire. These skill sets may be at odds. Recent research has shown a U-shaped relationsh…