Time/Date
4:45pm-5:45pm on Monday, 4/28/2025
Facilitator
TBA
The Business Meeting is where we discuss the future of the IFD&TC, elect new organizers, and learn about the location of future conferences. Everyone is encouraged to attend; we welcome participation from first year-attendees too!Hear from your 2024 conference organizers:
Time/Date
10:15am-11:15am on Wednesday, 6/28/2023
Location
Bixby 1, 2 & 3
Facilitator
TBA
Join us for this interactive session as we put our heads together to solve your survey problems. All conference attendees will be able to anonymously submit a problem they are facing in advance. Session attendees will be divided into groups and asked to deliberate on these problems and present their solutions. We'll also include some special surprises along the way!
Submit your problem: https://go.iu.edu/4OcY
Time/Date
8:30am-9:45am on Wednesday, 6/28/2023
Location
Nieto
Facilitator
TBA
During this roundtable discussion, small shops are invited to share the tools and tech that aide in their own operations, while also learning about new tools and tech used by other shops.
Time/Date
8:30am-9:45am on Wednesday, 6/28/2023
Location
Broadlind Ballroom
Facilitator
TBA
Presenters will share valuable insights regarding the use of mail for increasing response rates, creating strong first impressions, dealing with nonresponse, and facilitating quality assurance.
Time/Date
8:30am-9:45am on Wednesday, 6/28/2023
Location
Pike 3
Facilitator
TBA
Presenters will discuss strategies to increase response rates and address nonresponse. Topics addressed will include contact strategies using email, using interactive tracing, GPS coordinate gathering, and CAWI instrument techniques to supplement CATI, and obstacles to respondent participation in web-based surveys.
Time/Date
4:45pm-6:00pm on Tuesday, 4/29/2025
Facilitator
TBA
Join attendees with an interest in the technical aspects of survey research for a special roundtable discussion. The open format allows for a range of soft tech management topics and current events impacting survey center technical operations. Everyone is welcome, both techies and "fieldies"!
Time/Date
8:00am-8:30am on Monday, 4/28/2025
Facilitator
TBA
All attendees facilitating a session at the conference are asked to attend a half hour breakfast meeting to go over guidelines and answer questions. If you've been a facilitator before, please come share your experiences with newer facilitators. If this is your first time, join us to meet others, and learn more about how facilitating works at IFD&TC.