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Wed, Oct 31

Short Course 1: Social Media Research Methods

Wed, Oct 31, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Julia

Instructor(s): Reg Baker, Market Strategies International

The model for social research for the better part of the last century has been one that relies heavily on designing surveys and asking questions. Over about the last five years, the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies and social media applications has created the opportunity for a new type of research, one that is more focused on listening to people talk about issues of concern to them in natural conversation rather than drawing them into structured surveys and asking them questions. This type of research is not likely to replace surveys any time soon, but it might help to improve survey design, yield insights that may be difficult to uncover with traditional survey methods and even provide access to people who otherwise may be difficult to reach in meaningful numbers. This course is designed for survey researchers interested in learning more about social media research (SMR). Its objective is to increase attendees' understanding of the potential opportunities and drawbacks of SMR. We will address the key issues a survey researcher faces when considering SMR, either as a complement to or a replacement for traditional research. We will discuss the different types of social media platforms (social networking sites, blogs, microblogs, online communities, etc.) and their potential use in research as well as the emerging research methods appropriate to each.

 

Short Course 2: Designing and Developing Instruments Across Cultures and Languages

Wed, Oct 31, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
New Levee

Instructor(s): Peter Philipp Mohler, University of Mannheim

The course focuses on explaining and demonstrating aspects of questionnaire design and version production of special importance when conducting research across cultures and languages. Research on cultural and linguistic minorities, who may or may not qualify as H2R for a given context, often takes place within such a framework, as does multilingual research. Existing instruments may need to be adapted in multiple ways for a given population and often also need to be translated. Even instruments developed especially for a minority population may be developed in one language but administered in another. In multilingual studies, comparability across instruments in different languages is a basic design requirement The sparse and often widely dispersed literature available on development of such instruments makes it difficult to learn how to best to plan the development and evaluation of studies with special cultural and linguistic components. The course draws together the essentials of current best practice for instrument development for cross-cultural, cross-lingual studies, presenting, with examples, procedures and protocols for design, adaptation, translation, and, in condensed form, various stages of evaluation including basic design, pretesting across languages, and versions assessment in different languages. Attendees should have a good understanding of the general principles of questionnaire design, as those will have to be assumed in order to deal in the course with cross-cultural, cross-lingual aspects. The course is relevant for those involved in or expecting to be involved in designing or assessing instruments for cross-lingual, cross-cultural research, or to be used with populations with special linguistic and cultural considerations.

 

Surveying in Areas of Natural Disasters

Wed, Oct 31, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom CD

Chair(s): Deborah Griffin, Census

THE SOCIOLOGICAL DETERMINATION: GATHERING DATA ON NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA
Timothy J Haney, Mount Royal University

Feasibility of neighborhood surveys in post-Katrina New Orleans: Development of a systematic social observation tool.
William T. Robinson, LSU Health Sciences Center School of Public Health; Louisiana Office of Public Health

Coping with the Effects of Natural Disasters in a Longitudinal Study
Shawn E. Marsh, Mathematica Policy Research

Discussant(s): Beth-Ellen Pennell, University of Michigan

 

Large Scale Surveys: Solutions for Sampling Ethnics or Low-Income Groups

Wed, Oct 31, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): Idesbald Nicaise, K.U. Leuven

A Nationally Representative Sample of Asians that is City-Based
Steven Pedlow, NORC/University of Chicago

Using ancillary information in national ABS samples to recruit hard-to-reach young adults and Hispanics
J. Michael Dennis, GfK - Knowledge Networks

A Design To Oversample Low Income Households For a Study of Food Acquisition
John W Hall, Mathematica Policy Research

Oversampling small low income communities in California using telephone surveys
Ismael Flores Cervantes, Westat

 

Making Use of Administrative Records, Auxiliary Data and New Techniques when Enumerating and Estimating H2R Populations

Wed, Oct 31, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Karol Krotki, RTI International

Predictive Accuracy of Fitted Logistic Regression Model Using Ranked Set Samples
Kevin Carl Pena Santos, University of the Philippines School of Statistics

Reaching the Homeless in Australia: a longitudinal study
Nicole Watson, University of Melbourne

Potential Uses of Administrative Records for Triple System Modeling for Estimation of Census Coverage Error in 2020
Richard Arthur Griffin, U.S. Census Bureau

 

Multi-Method Challenges and Approaches to Studying the Hard-to-Reach

Wed, Oct 31, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom CD

Chair(s): Brad Edwards, Westat

Variance Estimation in Respondent-Driven Sampling: Implications for Research Design
Douglas D. Heckathorn, Cornell University

Strategies to Retain Hispanic Sample Members in a Longitudinal Study and Effects on Survey Responses
Bryan Bell Rhodes, RTI International

Cross-Survey Analysis to Enumerate Religious Minorities in the United States
Elizabeth Tighe, Brandeis University

Challenges in Conducting Surveys of Political Extremists
Timothy Patrick Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Locating, Recruiting and Screening Rare Populations

Wed, Oct 31, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): Pierre Lavallée, Statistics Canada

Use and quality of auxiliary data informing sample designs for population surveys of the disabled
Julian Whiting, Australian Bureau of Statistics

Knowing who they are looking for: Effects of revealing the target population on coverage rates and response rates in household surveys.
Frauke Kreuter, University of Maryland & IAB/LMU

Benefits and Drawbacks of a Multistage Screening Effort for Surveying Rare Populations
Heather M Morrison, NORC at the Univerity of Chicago

Screening Inconsistency: A Problem with Multistage Screening for Rare Populations
Stephen J Blumberg, National Center for Health Statistics

 

Strategies for Sampling, Surveying, and Estimating Homeless Populations

Wed, Oct 31, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Roger Tourangeau, Westat

Fixing National Homeless Counts
Jay Bainbridge, Marist College School of Management

Enumerating the Hidden Homeless: Strategies to Estimate the Homeless Gone Missing from a Point-in-time Count
Robert Patrick Agans, University of North Carolina

Strategies for obtaining probability samples of homeless youth
Daniela Golinelli, RAND Corporation

Adapting methodology is adaptation to the field: the case of a survey among rough sleepers
Maryse Marpsat, INSEE (National Institute for Statistics and Economics Studies)

 

H2R Conference Monograph Editor's Dinner (By Invitation Only)

Wed, Oct 31, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

 

Thu, Nov 1

An Overview of the Hard to Reach: Who, How, What, and Where?

Thu, Nov 1, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom CD

Chair(s): Timothy Patrick Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago

Defining and Measuring Hard-to-Survey Populations
Roger Tourangeau, Westat

Surveying Hard-to-Reach Populations in Comparative Perspective
Tom W Smith, NORC

The usual suspects: are they really that difficult? Resistance to surveys among the general population
Ineke Stoop, The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP

A Planning Database to Identify Areas that Are Hard-to-Enumerate and Hard-To-Survey in the United States
J. Gregory Robinson, U.S. Census Bureau

A Review of Quality Issues Associated with Studying Hard-to-Reach Populations
Lars Lyberg, Stockholm University

 

Surveying Indigenous and Migrant Populations

Thu, Nov 1, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): Jennifer Hunter Childs, U.S. Census Bureau

The Role of Tribal Epidemiology Centers in Reaching American Indian/Alaska Native Populations
Kristin Helene Hill, Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council

Sampling and Surveying Irregular Female Labor Migrants in Moscow, Russia
Natalya Zotova, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)

Identifying Indigenous Mexicans and Central Americans in Surveys
Susan M. Gabbard, Aguirre Division, JBS International

Discussant(s): Richard Bilsborrow, UNC

 

Leveraging Social Marketing and Community Organizations to Engage the Hard to Reach

Thu, Nov 1, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Gordon B Willis, National Cancer Institute

Mobilizing Hard-To-Count Populations to Fully Participate in Censuses and Surveys
Tim Olson, US Census Bureau; Arturo Vargas, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials

Use of Paid Media to Encourage 2010 Census Participation among the Hard-to-Count
A. Rupa Datta, NORC at the University of Chicago

Eliminating Health Disparities
Jennifer S. Vanicek, NORC at the University of Chicago

Methods for Robust Data Collection on Small Populations: Case of the Pacific Islander Health Study
Sela V. Panapasa, University of Michigan

Discussant(s): Dianne Rucinski, Abt Associates

 

Techniques for Surveying Low and High Income Populations

Thu, Nov 1, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom CD

Chair(s): Robert Santos, The Urban Institute

Studying poverty with Eurostat’s EU-SILC survey: the case of homeless people and undocumented immigrants
Idesbald Nicaise, K.U. Leuven

Surveying the Very Wealthy: Challenges and Considerations in Targeted List Design and Composition
Ned English, NORC at the University of Chicago

The Survey of Consumer Finances: Collecting Sensitive Data from an Elite Population
Catherine C Haggerty, NORC, University of Chicago

Strategies for Locating and Interviewing a Disadvantaged Population on the Moving to Opportunity Final Impact Evaluation
Margaret L Hudson, University of Michigan, Survey Research Center

 

Surveying Populations with Disabilities

Thu, Nov 1, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): Alicia Schoua-Glusberg, Research Support Services

Challenges of inclusion in the first ever national survey of people with intellectual disabilities
Sally Malam, TNS-BMRB

Specific mixed-mode methodology to reach sensory disabled people in quantitative surveys
Sébastien Fontaine, University Of Liège Belgium

Nothing About Them Without Them: Strategies for Including Hard-to-Reach People With Disabilities in Survey Research
Jason Markesich, Mathematica Policy Research

Is In-Person Interviewing Necessary to Adequately Survey Persons with Disabilities?
Matt Sloan, Mathematica Policy Research

 

Establishment Surveys and the H2R: The U.S. Census of Agriculure and related research

Thu, Nov 1, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Arturo Vargas, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials

NASS Outreach Efforts to Hard to Reach Respondents of the 2007 U.S. Census of Agriculture
Cedric L. Reddick, USDA/NASS

Addressing Non-response and Incomplete Coverage for Hard-to-Reach Populations in the 2007 Census of Agriculture
Virginia Lee Harris, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Designing Tailored Data Collection for Navajo Farm Operators in the 2012 Census of Agriculture
Jaki S. McCarthy, USDA/Nat'l Ag. Statistics Service

Comparison of Use of Household and Geographic Point Samples to Capture Livestock Data from Pastoralists
Stephanie Eckman, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany

 

Cooperation, Increasing Response - Poster Session

Thu, Nov 1, 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom B + Foyer

Analysis of 2010 Census Nonresponse Followup Operation Difficult to Enumerate Addresses
Geoffrey Ian Jackson, Census Bureau

Assessing non-coverage bias among children 19-35 months and adolescents 13-17 years in the National Immunization Survey
Benjamin Skalland, NORC at the University of Chicago

Exploring the Effects of Respondent Behavior on the Interview Process and Data Quality in a 2010 Census Case Study Evaluation
Ruth Ann Sando, Sando and Associates

Injured Workers and Poverty in Ontario
Bonita Lee Heath, York University and Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups

Using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Improving Response from Spanish Speaking Hispanics
Robin Gentry, Arbitron Inc

Is the Elderly a Hard-To-Count Population? Evidence From the 2010 Demographic Analysis Estimates
Kirsten K West, U.S. Census Bureau

Impact of Cross-cultural and Literacy Differences Among Gulf Coast Residents on the CHATS Study
Janelle Lynette Perkins, RTI International

Using Consulate Data to Estimate the Foreign-Born Haitian Population
Linda Marc, Harvard School of Public Health

Capturing Transgender Identity on Community Health Patient Registration Forms
Judith Bradford, Fenway Institute

 

Lessons Learned Surveying Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Thu, Nov 1, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom CD

Chair(s): Irene Glasser, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University

Empirical Ethnographic Evaluations on Coverage of Hard-to-Count Race/Ethnic Minorities in Decennial Censuses in the United States
Laurie Schwede, U.S. Census Bureau

Engaging African American Men in Empirically-based Marriage Enrichment Programs: Lessons from a Focus Group on the ProSAAM Project
LATRENA A STOKES, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Non-Response in Recontact Surveys of Hard to Reach Populations
Besheer Mohamed, Pew Research Center

Reducing item non-response, unit non-response and social desirability in a survey on sexual health in ethnic minorities.
Maya Caen, Ghent University

Challenges in Surveying Elderly African-American Men
Christine S Brennan, LSUHSC School of Public Health

 

Who is missed? Census undercounts and the impact on estimates

Thu, Nov 1, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): J. Michael Dennis, GfK - Knowledge Networks

Counting and Estimating the hard to count population in the 2011 UK Census
Garnett Compton, Office for National Statistics

Measuring Undercounts for Hard-to-Reach Groups
Mary H. Mulry, U.S. Census Bureau

Response Mode Choice and the Hard-to-Interview in the American Community Survey
Elizabeth M. Nichols, U.S. Census Bureau

Reaching the Hard-to-Reach in Louisiana
Joanne Pascale, U.S. Census Bureau

 

Locating, Tracking, and Retaining H2R and Mobile Populations

Thu, Nov 1, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Ineke Stoop, The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP

Finding the Hard to Reach and Keeping Them Engaged in Research
Kirsten Becker, RAND Corporation, Survey Research Group

The 'Most Mobile Human Population": Sampling Long-Haul Truckers Through a National Truck Stop Sample
Louis Philip Rizzo, Westat

Locating and Contacting Respondents After a 50-year Hiatus in a Longitudinal Study: Results from the Project Talent Pilot Test
Celeste Stone, American Institutes For Research

Sampling Strategies of a Hard 2 Reach Population in New York: Exploring Sample Tracking, Follow-Up Contacts, & Incentive Increases to Reach 80%
Sylvia Rachel Epps, Decision Information Resources, Inc.

 

Welcome Reception

Thu, Nov 1, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
River Bend Ballroom

 

Fri, Nov 2

General Sample Design Strategies

Fri, Nov 2, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Blaine Kern Ballroom CD

Chair(s): Tim Gabel, RTI International

Indirect Sampling for Hard-to-Reach Populations
Pierre Lavallée, Statistics Canada

Sampling Subpopulations using Partial Lists, Imperfect Census Data and Rough Screening Questions
Robert Graham Clark, University of Wollongong

Estimating the Size of Hard-to-Reach Populations using Respondent-Driven Sampling Data
Mark Stephen Handcock, University of California - Los Angeles

Sampling elusive and mobile populations
Graham Kalton, Westat

 

Surveying Sexual Minorities, Stigmatized, and Hidden Populations,

Fri, Nov 2, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): Nancy Bates, Census

The feasibility of conducting a web survey using Respondent Driven Sampling among transgenders in the Netherlands.
Joost Kappelhof, The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP

Conducting Research on Vulnerable and Stigmatized Populations
Sandra H. Berry, RAND Corporation, Survey Research Group

Potential Undercoverage and Bias in Name-based Samples of Foreigners
Mark Trappmann, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA)

Comparing survey and sampling methods for reaching sexual minorities as a hidden population
Alexis Dewaele, Ghent University

Sampling Transgender Communities to Assess Healthcare Access and Develop Public Health Programs
Judith Bradford, Fenway Institute

 

Effects of Language, Identity, Culture and Mode in the Surveying and Enumerating non-English Speaking Populations

Fri, Nov 2, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Leslyn Hall, Redstone Research LLC

Observing Census Enumeration of Arabic Speaking Households in 2010 Census
Kristine J Ajrouch, Eastern Michgian University

Speaking across the threshold: 2010 census enumeration of Russian-speaking immigrants
Ludmila Isurin, The Ohio State University

The Importance of Survey Mode in Contacting Hard to Reach Populations: The Case of Spanish Speakers in the American Community Survey
Patricia L Goerman, U.S. Census Bureau

Interlocking Invisibilities: How Illiteracy, Age, and Identity Affect Census taking
Stephen Lubkemann, U.S. Census Bureau

 

Survey Research Challenges in Post-Katrina/Rita Louisiana

Fri, Nov 2, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom CD

Chair(s): A. Rupa Datta, NORC at the University of Chicago

Interviewing in Disaster-Affected Areas: Lessons Learned From Post-Katrina Surveys of New Orleans Residents
Mollyann Brodie, Kaiser Family Foundation

Sampling a Rare and Mobile Population
Karol Krotki, RTI International

Tracing in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Marjorie Hinsdale-Shouse, RTI International

Vulnerability and resiliency of Vietnamese community in New Orleans East post Katrina and oil spill
Chihyang Hu, LSUHSC School of Public Health

 

Advances in Adaptive Sampling and Other Methods to Estimate the H2R

Fri, Nov 2, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): David Dutwin, Social Science Research Solutions

Integrating Probability and Nonprobability Sampling Frames To Survey the Muslim American Population
Mike Battaglia, Abt Associates

Recent Developments of Sampling Hard-to-Reach Populations: An Assessment
Sunghee Lee, University of Michigan

Social network methods for estimating adult mortality: preliminary evidence from Brazil
Dennis Feehan, Princeton University

Assessing respondent-driven sampling
Matthew Salganik, Princeton University

 

Overcoming Language, Cultural and Literacy Challenges in Hard to Reach Populations

Fri, Nov 2, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Bill O'Hare, O'Hare Data and Demographic Services, LCC

Surveying Hard-to reach Cultural and Linguistic Minorities
Mathew Stange, University Nebraska Lincoln

Beyond Words: In Search of Effective Methods For Translating Survey Letters
Yuling Pan, U.S. Census Bureau

From Paper to Pixels: Digital Literacy in Hard to Reach Survey Environments
Jennifer Hunter Childs, U.S. Census Bureau

Demographic Flags and Dual-Language Survey Materials
Jennifer S. Vanicek, NORC at the University of Chicago

Designing Questions to Measure Sensitive Behaviors among Disadvantaged Youths in ACASI
Jennifer Dykema, University of Wisconsin Survey Center

 

Social Networks and the H2R: Applications for Access, Referral, and Recruitment

Fri, Nov 2, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom CD

Chair(s): Steffen Poetzschke, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Network-based methods for accessing Hard-to-Reach populations using standard surveys
Tyler McCormick, Departments of Statistics and Sociology

Role of social networks in sampling hard to reach population
Prakash Adhikari, Central Michigan University

Barking Up the Right Tree? Using Social Networks to Target and analyze Animal Health
Danna L Moore, Social & Economic Sciences Research Center

Utilizing social network theory and double incentivized recruitment to target high-risk heterosexual males for rapid STI screening.
Scott Andrew White, Tulane University

 

Problems in Sampling Hard-to-Reach Populations

Fri, Nov 2, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): John W Hall, Mathematica Policy Research

Can Information from Market Research Companies be Used to Develop an Efficient Sampling Strategy for a Rare Population?
Kirk M. Wolter, NORC and University of Chicago

Indirect Sampling and the Multiple Frame Surveys
Manuela Maia, Catholic University of Portugal

Sample Surveys of HIV-infected Patients: Applications of Real Time Sampling Methods
Ronaldo Iachan, ICF Macro

Challenges in Completing Interviews with Latinos in the California Health Interview Survey
Sherman Edwards, Westat

Discussant(s): Lynn Stokes, SMU

 

Those kids today -- Surveying children and young people

Fri, Nov 2, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Sunghee Lee, University of Michigan

Research with children and young people: Lessons learnt from the implementation of a national children’s research programme
Siobhan Carey, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Sampling College Students to Improve Coverage in University Towns
Michelle Amanda Cantave, Arbitron Inc

Peek-a-boo: Measuring rare and hard-to-reach populations in the National Household Education Survey of children
Stacey Bielick, American Institutes for Research

Discussant(s): Aaron Maitland, Westat

 

Methodological, Sampling - Poster Session

Fri, Nov 2, 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom B + Foyer

Irregular Migration among Youth in Nigeria: Methodological Issues and Results
Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo, Obafemi Awolowo University

Efficiency of Recruiting Methods for Reaching Monolingual Asians in the United States
Hyunjoo Park, RTI International

Minimizing Target Population Burden and Confusion by Coordinated Sampling Using Permanent Random Numbers: An Example from Katrina/Rita Temporary Housing Unit Residents
Darryl V. Creel, RTI International

Multiobjective Optimal Allocation for Hard to Reach Populations
Benjamin Phillips, Abt SRBI

Surveying hard-to-reach research population groups: A mixed methods approach to questionnaire development and evaluation
Gordon B Willis, National Cancer Institute

Respondent-Driven Sampling for recruiting persons from Burma who eat Great Lakes fish, Buffalo, New York
Julie Reuther, New York State Department of Health

Challenges of Pediatric Clinical Research: Examples from the Children’s Health after the Storms (CHATS) Study
Laura B Strange, RTI International

Sampling Tajik Male Migrant Workers in Moscow
Linda Owens, Survey Research Lab, Univ. of Il

Ethnographic Research on Homeless Populations
Irene Glasser, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University

 

Surveying Areas of Natural Disaster and Armed Conflict

Fri, Nov 2, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom CD

Chair(s): Barbara O'Hare, Census

Disaster Research: Surveying Displaced Populations
Beth-Ellen Pennell, University of Michigan

Conducting Surveys in Areas of Armed Conflict
Zeina Mneimneh, University of Michigan

Community Based Participatory Research among Indigenous Louisiana Native American Tribes and “Cajun’s” Residing in Coastal Terrebonne Parish Louisiana as Related to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
David Kurt Lirette, LSU Health Sciences Center School of Public Health

Identifying Teens Affected By a Natural Disaster Using an Addressed-Based Sample Frame.
Tiffany Henderson, Abt SRBI

Discussant(s): Yashwant Deshmukh, YRD Media

 

Respondent-driven sampling: recent developments, applications and assessments

Fri, Nov 2, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): Mary H. Mulry, U.S. Census Bureau

New and recent developments in network sampling
Steve Thompson, Simon Fraser University

New methods for inference from Respondent-Driven Sampling Data
Krista Jennifer Gile, University of Massachusetts

Recruiting in an Internet panel using respondent driven sampling
Matthias Schonlau, University of Waterloo

The use of Respondent-Driven Sampling to Recruit Black Populations at Risk for HIV Infection for a Behavioral Survey in Tanzania and North Carolina, US: Effectiveness, Challenges and Recommendations
Mario Chen, FHI360

Discussant(s): Douglas D. Heckathorn, Cornell University

 

Ethnographic Insights to Counting H2R Populations in the 2010 Census I

Fri, Nov 2, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Laurie Schwede, U.S. Census Bureau

Gaining Access to Hard-to-Reach Arab-Americans
Sharon Ennis, U.S. Census Bureau

More Than Just Overcoming Language and Literacy Barriers: Non-response Followup Census Enumeration of Chinese in San Francisco Chinatown
Laurie Schwede, U.S. Census Bureau

Enumerating Hispanic Immigrants: Observations from Census Studies and Recommendations for an Accurate Count
Victor Garcia, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Using Behavior Coding to Examine the Role of Interviewer and Respondent Race/Ethnicity When Enumerating Hard-to-Reach Racial Minorities
Rodney Terry, U.S. Census Bureau

Interviewing Linguistic and Cultural Minorities: Insights from Ethnographic Observation of 2010 Census Interviews
Yuling Pan, U.S. Census Bureau

 

Plenary

Fri, Nov 2, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom

Chair(s): Siobhan Carey, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Methodology of the All Ireland Traveller Health Study 2007-2011
Cecily Catherine Kelleher, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science

The All Ireland Traveller Health Survey: A Community Perspective from Pavee Point
Missie Collins, Pavee Point; Brigid Quirke, Pavee Point

 

Memorial Session: In Memory of Janet Harkness

Fri, Nov 2, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Julia

Janet Harkness died on Memorial Day (May 28, 2012) in Germany at age 63. Harkness was the Director of the Survey Research and Methodology graduate program and Gallup Research Center, and holder of the Donald and Shirley Clifton Chair in Survey Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was the founder and Chair of the Organizing Committee on the International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI). Harkness made major contributions to the scholarly literature including Cross-Cultural Survey Equivalence (1998), Cross-Cultural Survey Methods (with F.J.R. Van de Vijver and P. Ph. Mohler, 2003), and Survey Methods in Multicultural, Multinational, and Multiregional Contexts (with M. Braun, B. Edwards, T.P. Johnson, L.F Lyberg, P. PH. Mohler, B. Pennell and T.W. Smith, 2010). Harkness had looked forward to presenting an invited paper and teaching a short course at the International Hard-to-Reach Conference. “I don’t know of anyone who has done as much thinking as she has about cross-cultural surveys, and how measurement differs across languages and countries…That’s one of the major challenges we now face in doing surveys as we increasingly shift to a world-wide emphasis in survey design.” - Don Dillman Please join her husband Peter Ph. Mohler and her friends in this memorial session.

 

Sat, Nov 3

Surveying Immigrant Populations: Challenges and Successes

Sat, Nov 3, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Blaine Kern Ballroom CD

Chair(s): Linda Jacobsen, Population Reference Bureau

Recruiting H2R Populations for EU-SILC – The German Experience
Luca Rebeggiani, Statistisches Bundesamt (Federal Statistical Office)

An Evaluation of Census 2010 Coverage in Rural Areas of California with High Concentrations of Immigrants
Edward Kissam, JBS International

Accessing, Engaging and Surveying a Cambodian Community in the U.S.
Judy Perlman, RAND Survey Research Group

Researching immigrant populations: the case of Iceland
Kristín Erla Harðardóttir, University of Iceland

Discussant(s): Jennifer Glick, ASU

 

Challenges and Best Practices in Surveys of Group Quarters and Incarcerated Populations

Sat, Nov 3, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): Elizabeth Dean, RTI International

Over the Hill and Through the Woods: Survey Research with Felon Populations
Daniel Horn, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science

Challenges and Issues in Enumerating and Surveying Health Related Group Quarters (HRGQ): Skilled Nursing and Hospice Facilities
Sonia Salari, University of Utah

Identifying Issues, Challenges and Best Practices in Surveying Hard-to-Reach Group Quarters Populations in Domestic Violence Shelters
Susan Dewey, University of Wyoming

Conducting Research with Incarcerated Populations
Ellen Schrader Stutts, RTI International

 

Surveying at-risk and high needs populations

Sat, Nov 3, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Kirk M. Wolter, NORC and University of Chicago

Sampling and recruitment of minority women at risk for HIV infection and their sexual partners: Lessons learned from a national pilot of the Heterosexual Partner Study, 2006-2007
Binh Le, CDC

Costs of Failing to Reach the Hard to Reach among a High Needs Population and Tips for Sampling and Cohort Retention
Angela A Aidala, Columbia University

Using network approaches to recruit Latino migrant men and their sexual and drug contacts
Patricia Kissinger, Tulane University

Harder to reach population: High-rsk MSM
William Joseph Woods, University of California San Francisco

 

Use of innovative technologies to overcome H2R barriers

Sat, Nov 3, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom CD

Chair(s): Frauke Kreuter, University of Maryland & IAB/LMU

The Talking Touchscreen (La Pantalla Parlanchina): Innovative Multimedia Methods for Health Outcomes Assessment and Patient Education in Underserved Populations
Elizabeth Ann Hahn, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Uncovering the Groundtruth: Using crowdsourcing to reach the masses
Jeff Scagnelli, Nielsen

A Choice in Mode: A Solution for Increasing Response Rates of Hard-to-Survey Populations?
Marieke Haan, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Virtual Communities, Real Respondents: Identifying, Contacting, and Surveying Unique Populations in Second Life
Elizabeth Dean, RTI International

From Microbloggers to Survey Respondents: Utilizing Twitter for Diary Data Collection
Ashley Kate Richards, RTI International

 

Using Empirical Samples of Hard-to-Reach Populations to Evaluate Respondent Driven Sampling

Sat, Nov 3, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): Beth-Ellen Pennell, University of Michigan

Estimated sampling variance in Respondent Driven Sampling data: Mathematical derivations, simulated tests on empirical data, and evidence from other forms of chain-referral data collection
Ashton Michael Verdery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Using Multiple Data Sources to Explore Referral Bias in Respondent Driven Sampling
M. Giovanna Merli, Duke University

Network Sampling Coverage in RDS: How Much of the Network Do We See?
Jeff Smith, Duke University

Some diagnostics for respondent-driven sampling: Illustrations and results from 12 studies in the Dominican Republic
Krista Jennifer Gile, University of Massachusetts

 

Enumerating the Homeless: Lessons from the U.S. 2010 Census and Beyond

Sat, Nov 3, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Joanne Pascale, U.S. Census Bureau

Reaching and Enumerating Homeless Populations
Irene Glasser, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University

Statistical surveys among homeless people, improving methods for a better coverage
Maryse Marpsat, INSEE (National Institute for Statistics and Economics Studies)

Enumerating Persons Experiencing Homelessness in the 2010 Census: Identifying Service Based and Targeted Non-Sheltered Outdoor Locations
Dora B Durante, Census Bureau

Enumerating Persons Experiencing Homelessness in the 2010 Census: Enumeration Methodology for Service Based Locations
Louis R Avenilla, Census Bureau

Enumerating Persons Experiencing Homelessness in the 2010 Census: Results from the Service Based Enumeration
Diane F Barrett, Census Bureau

 

Short Course 3: Respondent Driven Sampling

Sat, Nov 3, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Julia

Instructor(s): Matthias Schonlau, University of Waterloo

Respondent driven sampling (RDS) is a sampling technique typically employed for hard-to-reach populations (e.g. HIV populations, drug users, men who have sex with men, jazz musicians, immigrants). Briefly, initial seed respondents recruit additional respondents from their network of friends. The recruiting process repeats iteratively, thereby forming long referral chains. It is crucial to obtain estimates of respondents' network size (e.g. number of friends with the characteristic of interest) and to know who recruited whom. RDS shares some similarities with snowball sampling, but the theoretical foundation for inference using RDS samples is much stronger. We will give an overview over this technique and its assumptions and introduce software to analyze RDS data (using Stata). This short course is an introduction. At the conclusion participants will be able to judge under what circumstances RDS may be appropriate, know how to collect data and what challenges to look out for, and how to conduct standard RDS analyses.

 

Ethnographic Insights to Counting H2R Populations in the 2010 Census II

Sat, Nov 3, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom A

Chair(s): Rodney Terry, U.S. Census Bureau

Native American Populations on Reservations: An Ethnographic Evaluation of the 2010 U.S. Census Process of Enumerating Hard to Reach Populations
Ted N Fortier, Seattle University

What Factors Affect Miscounts of Blacks in the Census?
Karyn Lacy, University of Michigan

“Humility” and “Respect” Help in Overcoming Cultural Barriers When Surveying Hard-to-Reach Populations: A Case Study of Kanaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiians) and Others on Hawai`i Island
Ephrosine Daniggelis, Independent Consultant, Hawaiian Islands

“COUNTING GHOSTS” IN THE 2010 CENSUS IN BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA: H2R/H2C ISSUES IN A LAND OF SNOWBIRDS, FORECLOSURES AND A SURGING LATINO POPULATION
Rae Lesser Blumberg, University of Virginia

Discussant(s): Elizabeth Grieco, US Census Bureau

 

Hidden and stigmatized populations: the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System and Other Research

Sat, Nov 3, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Blaine Kern Ballroom E

Chair(s): Brad Edwards, Westat

Developing an approach for local formative research in preparation for research among hard-to-reach populations: Experiences from the U.S. National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System, 2003-2011
Alicia Edwards, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The effect of seed origin and interview site location on the geographical dispersion of respondent-driven samples in multiple cities
Cyprian Wejnert, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The homophily/design effect relationship in respondent-driven sampling data – results from the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System among injecting drug users
Michael Spiller III, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Weighting Venue-Based Sample Data for the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System among Men Who Have Sex With Men
Lillian Shengjung Lin, CDC

Sampling strategies for alcohol and drug users: two recent Brazilian experiences
Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva, ENCE/IBGE

 

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