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We’re excited to be in Toronto, supporting the conference as a Sustaining Sponsor and a Platinum Sponsor

and sharing our range of expertise and innovative ideas with colleagues from around the globe. Visit our

booth and see our schedule inside for details on our participation.

► AAPOR Committee Involvement＞ Martha Stapleton, Education Committee

＞ Darby Steiger, Education Committee

＞ Hanyu Sun, Education Committee

＞ Jennifer Berktold, Standard Definitions Committee

► AAPOR Ad-Hoc Committees and Task Force Involvement＞ Jill DeMatteis, Co-Chair,

Data Fabrication Task Force

＞ Jean Opsomer, Mixed Mode Task Force

＞ Darby Steiger, Mixed Mode Task Force

► AAPOR Awards Committees＞ Janice Machado, Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators

Award Committee

＞ Brad Edwards, Seymour Sudman Student Paper Award Committee

＞ Brad Edwards, Chair, WAPOR/AAPOR Janet A. Harkness Student Paper Award Committee

► AAPOR Publications＞ Ting Yan, Editor, Journal of Survey Statistics

and Methodology

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Wednesday, May 15

► SHORT COURSES 2:30 – 6:00 PM

SHORT COURSE 1: Fundamentals! Learning the Basics of Qualitative Data Analysis

Location: City Hall

Short Course Instructor: Cynthia Roberts (Westat)

SHORT COURSE 2: Advances in Address-Based Sampling

Location: Civic Ballroom North

Short Course Instructor: Jill DeMatteis (Westat)

Thursday, May 16

► POSTER SESSION #1 3:30 – 4:30 PMLocation: Sheraton Hall/Osgoode

＞ 18. A Comparison of Two Web-Based Measures of Health Literacy and Numeracy

Victoria Hoverman, Jennifer Crafts, Douglas Williams, Andrew Caporaso (Westat)

Kathryn Aikin, Helen Sullivan (Food and Drug Administration)

► CONCURRENT SESSIONS A 4:30 – 6:00 PM

SESSION 1 | Measurement and Data Quality

Location: Civic Ballroom North

＞ Understanding the Words, But Not the Meaning: When Cognitive Testing of Translated Instruments Uncover Cultural Realities That Impact Question Interpretation and Applicability

Daniela Glusberg, Alisu Schoua-Glusberg, Erika Martinez-Picazo (Research Support Services, Inc.)

Kerry Levin, Jennifer McNulty (Westat)

SESSION 2 | Topics in Telephone Surveys

Location: Pine

MODERATOR: Melanie Goodrich (Westat)

SESSION 10 | Improving Questions and Measuring Quality

Location: City Hall

＞ Comparing Methods for Assessing Reliability

Ting Yan, Hanyu Sun, Roger Tourangeau (Westat)

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Friday, May 17

► CONCURRENT SESSIONS B 8:00 – 9:30 AM

SESSION 3 | Qualitative Research Paper Session 2: Multiple Methods and Alternative Solutions

Location: Dominion North

＞ What Makes a Family? Using Sociograms to Assess the Household Composition of Youth in Non-Traditional Living Situations

Cynthia Robins, Darby Steiger (Westat)

Ryan Whorton, Debby Almonte, Jonas Bertling (ETS)

SESSION 8 | Asking Questions and Influencing Answers: Understanding the Interviewer’s Role in Data Collection

Location: Willow East

MODERATOR: Darby Steiger (Westat)

► CONCURRENT SESSIONS C 10:00 – 11:30 AM

SESSION 2 | Pushing the Envelope: Finding Better Ways to Measure in Surveys

Location: Pine

＞ Concurrent vs. Retrospective Online Probing on Response Quality

Hanyu Sun, Andrew Caporaso, David Cantor, Terisa Davis (Westat)

＞ Using Online Asynchronous Focus Groups to Test Health Communication Materials

Jennifer Berktold, Erika Reed-Gross (Westat)

SESSION 3 | Recruitment Strategies

Location: Civic Ballroom North

＞ Assessing Effectiveness of Nonresponse Follow-Up Procedures for an Establishment Survey

Naomi Yount, Reanne Townsend, Sarah Bennett-Harper (Westat)

Scott Leary, Brenda Schafer, Pat Langetieg, Rizwan Javaid (Internal Revenue Service)

SESSION 11 | Face/Off: Mode Switching and Mode Transitions

Location: Dominion South

＞ Impact of Mode-Switching on Attrition in a Random-Digit Dialing Cell Phone Survey

Daniel Gundersen, Anna C. Revette (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)

Jonathan Wivagg, Charles Carusi (Westat)

Cristina D. Delnevo (Rutgers School of Public Health)

► CONCURRENT SESSIONS D 1:45 – 3:15 PM

SESSION 11 | Uses of Big Data and Data Science to Improve Survey Data Quality

Location: Simcoe/Dufferin

＞ Identifying Interviewer Falsification Using Speech Recognition: A Proof of Concept Study

Hanyu Sun, Gonzalo Rivero, Ting Yan (Westat)

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► POSTER SESSION #2 3:15 – 4:15 PMLocation: Sheraton Hall/Osgoode

＞ 14. Using NVivo to Manage Complex Analysis

Teresa Kline, Jocelyn Newsome, Victoria Castleman (Westat)

＞ 30. Comparing Variance Estimation Methods Using Health Survey Data: Taylor Series Linearization vs. Replication

Richard Moser, Kwasi Aboagye (National Cancer Institute)

Lloyd Hicks, Shaohua Dong, Weijia Ren, Natalia Weil (Westat)

Jenn Nguyen (Mercer University)

＞ 42. Mobile Use and Device Switching Among Respondents to a Business Survey

Karen Stein, Sarah Bennett-Harper, Martha Stapleton, Kerry Levin (Westat)

Brenda Schafer, Pat Langetieg, Lisa Rupert, Scott Leary (Internal Revenue Service)

► CONCURRENT SESSIONS E 4:15 – 5:45 PM

SESSION 3 | Mode and Measurement

Location: Simcoe/Dufferin

Comparing Reports of Victimization for an Interactive Voice Response and Telephone Interview

David Cantor (Westat)

SESSION 8 | Web vs. Paper vs. Phone

Location: Pine

＞ Comparing Response Metrics and Sample Representativeness of Telephone and Web Respondents Recruited Via Random-Digit Dialing of Cell Phones

Daniel Gundersen, Anna C. Revette (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)

Jonathan Wivagg, Charles Carusi (Westat)

Cristine D. Delnevo (Rutgers School of Public Health)

Saturday, May 18

► CONCURRENT SESSIONS F 8:00 – 9:30 AM

SESSION 1 | All Mixed Up? Advances in Mixed-Mode Research

Location: Pine

＞ Is There a Difference in Response? Comparing a Web Only and Mixed Mode Design in a Government Customer Survey

Carolina Kocuba, William Cecere, Shelley Brock, Kerry Levin, Gina Shkodriani, Amanda Wilmot (Westat)

＞ Pushing International Respondents to the Web

Jocelyn Newsome, Kerry Levin, Jennifer McNulty, Hanyu Sun (Westat)

Brenda Schafer, Patrick Langetieg, Scott Leary, Rizwan Javaid (Internal Revenue Service)

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SESSION 7 | Virtual Fencing, Listing, Diaries, and Diets

Location: Willow East

＞ Is Virtual Listing a Reality?

Vanessa Meldener, Michael Giangrande, Frost Hubbard, Justin Kamens, Michelle Amsbary (Westat)

Katie Lewis (Energy Information Administration)

＞ A Smartphone App to Record Food Purchases and Acquisitions

Ting Yan, Marcelo Simas, Janice Machado (Westat)

Mark Denbaly, Xingyou Zhang (U.S. Department of Agriculture)

SESSION 11 | Surveys of Adolescent

Location: Dominion South

MODERATOR: Reanne Townsend (Westat)

► CONCURRENT SESSIONS G 10:00 – 11:30 AM

SESSION 10 | Screening, Recruitment and Survey Mode

Location: Dominion North

＞ Comparability of Face-to-Face and Web Screening: Does Mode Affect What Households Report?

Douglas Williams (Westat)

Tala Fakhouri (National Center for Health Statistics)

► POSTER SESSION #3 12:45 – 1:45 PMLocation: Sheraton Hall/Osgoode

＞ 1. A Secondary Analysis of Factors Predicting Perceptions of the Procedural Justice of Local Law Enforcement

Antonia Warren, Suzanne O. Kaasa (Westat)

► CONCURRENT SESSIONS H 1:45 – 3:15 PM

SESSION 5 | Mixing New and Old Ways to Evaluate Questions

Location: Chestnut

＞ Combining mTurk and Traditional Cognitive Testing

Teresa Kline, Jennifer McNulty, Jocelyn Newsome, Victoria Castleman (Westat)

＞ Web Probing for Survey Pretesting: How Do Data Quality and Problem Detection Compare to Cognitive Interviews?

Andrew Caporaso, Hanyu Sun, Terisa Davis, David Cantor (Westat)

＞ What’s New? Comparing Web Probing with Questionnaire Appraisal System and Cognitive Interviewing for Evaluation of Health Items

Xin (Rosalynn) Yang, Hanyu Sun, Andrew Caporaso, David Cantor, Terisa Davis (Westat)

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SESSION 6 | Causes and Consequences of Nonresponse

Location: Dominion South

＞ How Long Is Enough? The Impact of the Length of the Fielding on Response

Kerry Levin, Jocelyn Newsome, Jennifer McNulty, Hanyu Sun (Westat)

Brenda Schafer, Patrick Langetieg, Scott Leary, Rizwan Javaid (Internal Revenue Service)

＞ Geospatial Analysis on Nonresponse Rates for an IRS Household Survey

Rizwan Javaid, Brenda Schafer, Patrick Langetieg, Scott Leary (Internal Revenue Service)

Hanyu Sun, Michael Giangrande, Jocelyn Newsome, Kerry Levin (Westat)

SESSION 9 | Redesign of Federal Surveys

Location: Simcoe/Dufferin

＞ Formative Research to Redesign the National Crime Victimization Survey

Darby Steiger, Karen Stein (Westat)

Jennifer Truman (Bureau of Justice Statistics)

SESSION 11 | Techniques for Improving Response Rates

Location: Willow East

＞ Surveying Businesses: Comparing a Multi-Mode and Web-Only Design

Jessica Taylor, Hanyu Sun, Kasia O’Connell (Westat)

Brenda Schafer, Pat Langetieg, Scott Leary, Rizwan Javaid (Internal Revenue Service)

► CONCURRENT SESSIONS I 3:30 – 5:00 PM

SESSION 6 | Telephone Survey Recruitment

Location: Civic Ballroom North

＞ How Do the Frequency and Content of Voice Mail Messages Affect Cell Phone Survey Response?

Jonathan Wivagg, Sarah Dipko (Westat)

Daniel A. Gunderson (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)

Cristine D. Delnevo (Rutgers School of Public Health)

＞ What Does Extra Effort Yield in the Current Telephone Survey Climate?

Sarah Dipko (Westat)

SESSION 7 | Improving Address-Based Samples

Location: Chestnut

＞ Is It Worth It? Remailing Postal Nondeliverables with Better Addresses

Elizabeth Hunter, Reina Sprankle, Brandi McMillan, Jocelyn Newsome, Kerry Levin (Westat)

Brenda Schafer, Pat Langetieg, Scott Leary, Rizwan Javaid (Internal Revenue Service)

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Sunday, May 19

► CONCURRENT SESSIONS J 9:15 – 10:45 AM

SESSION 7 | Sorry to Burden You! Understanding and Reducing Burden in Surveys

Location: Willow Center-West

＞ Cognitive Testing of Race, Hispanic Origin, and Ancestry Questions to Investigate Respondent Burden

Rodney Terry, Angie Buchanan, Mary C. Davis (U.S. Census Bureau)

Darby Steiger (Westat)

► CONCURRENT SESSIONS K 11:05 AM – 12:35 PM

SESSION 2 | Measuring and Assessing Sensitive Content

Location: Simcoe/Dufferin

＞ Methods and Challenges in Enumerating Incidents of Sexual Assault Victimization

Reanne Townsend, David Cantor (Westat)

SESSION 4 | Transparency and Privacy

Location: Grand Ballroom

＞ Reconsidering Privacy for Surveys in the Social Media Age

Brad Edwards, Amelia Burke-Garcia, Ting Yan (Westat)

SESSION 9 | Using Data Science and Big Data to Predict Survey Nonresponse

Location: Chestnut

＞ Sequence Models for Response Propensity Estimation in Face-to-Face Studies: A Survey of Different Approaches

Gonzalo Rivero, John Riddles, Kristin Chen (Westat)

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