| Sunday June 25, 2023 | |
| 12:00pm-5:00pm on Sunday | |
| Check-In Location: Alcove 2nd Floor Stop by the IFD&TC registration table to pick up your conference materials. Late check-in is also available Monday morning before the Keynote. | |
| 4:30pm-6:00pm on Sunday | |
| Welcome Happy Hour Reception Location: SIP IFD&TC organizers past and present welcome you to the conference. Please join us for a happy hour reception featuring light snacks, a cash bar, and an informal time to visit with old and new friends. Dinner on your own after the reception. | |
| Monday June 26, 2023 | |
| 6:30am-8:00am on Monday | |
| Registration Continues Location: Alcove 2nd Floor If you arrived late to the conference, you can check in at the IFD&TC registration table. | |
| 7:00am-8:30am on Monday | |
| Breakfast Location: Bixby 4 & 5 Buffet breakfast served | |
| 7:30am-8:00am on Monday | |
| Early Career Breakfast Location: Bixby 4 & 5 Are you an early career/first time attendee and don’t know where to start? Start your day with breakfast and meeting other new attendees at our breakfast table. Grab a plate and look for the Early Career signs in the dinning area. We can answer any questions that you have about the conference and help you meet others who share your interests. Marie Nitschke and Mekenzie Kerr are your hosts. | |
| Facilitator Breakfast Location: Ebell 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. Kyle Fennell is your host. | |
| Session 1 | 8:30am-9:45am on Monday |
| 1A – All | Keynote – Stayin’ Alive: Why Survey Research Is Still Working Scott Keeter, Pew Research Center Invited Address Location: Bixby 1, 2 & 3 Facilitator: John Stevenson, University of Wisconsin Survey Center
After a long, slow decline in response rates during the last decades of the 20th century, survey research faced multiple existential threats in the first two decades of the 21st century. Through a combination of human creativity, hard work, and technological innovation, the field evolved and remains strong and viable in 2023. This presentation will examine the evolution of the field during this tumultuous period and assess its current vitality in the face of continuing threats. Among the topics to be discussed are the growth of probability-based household panels, the evolution of modeling and weighting approaches for addressing biases, the explosion of nonprobability methods, and the decline of telephone surveys. Scott Keeter is a senior survey advisor at Pew Research Center. In this role, he provides methodological guidance to all of Pew Research Center’s research areas. An expert on American public opinion and political behavior, he is co-author of four books and numerous articles. Keeter joined Pew Research Center in 2002 after more than two decades in academia. He is a graduate of Davidson College and received his doctorate in political science from the University of North Carolina. He is a past president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and a recipient of its highest honor, the AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement. |
| 9:45am-10:15am on Monday | |
| Monday AM Break Location: Outside Bixby 1, 2 & 3 Refreshments served | |
| Session 2 | 10:15am-11:30am on Monday |
| 2A – Field | Lessons from the Pandemic Presentation & Discussion: Center Management and Staff Training Location: Wilmore Facilitator: Steve Coombs, University of Wisconsin Survey Center Presenters will share lessons learned, successes, and challenges of working during a pandemic.
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| 2B – Field | Interviewer Productivity and Retention Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Pike 3 Facilitator: Mary Potter, U.S. Census Bureau Presenters will share valuable tips for increasing interviewer productivity. Presentations will cover increasing productivity through gamification, fostering success in today’s field, and evaluating indicators of success for face-to-face interviewing.
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| 2C – Field | Questionnaire Design Panel Panel Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Broadlind Ballroom Facilitator: Kelly Elver, University of Wisconsin Survey Center Panel will discuss optimal questionnaire design and issues around design and take questions from the audience.
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| 2D – Tech | Security and Standards Presentation & Discussion: Field Tech (Soft Tech) Location: Nieto Facilitator: Chris Griggs, RTI International Presenters will share from experience their strategies and recommendations for keeping systems secure.
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| 11:30am-12:30pm on Monday | |
| Random Digit Dining – Monday Lunch Location: Bixby 4 & 5 Bring your RDD lunch ticket and join us for lunch. Attendees are seated at tables according to the number drawn on their lunch tickets at check in. RDD lunch is a fun way to meet and get to know other attendees! | |
| Session 3 | 1:00pm-2:15pm on Monday |
| 3A – Field | Optimal Use of Telephone in Project Design Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Wilmore Facilitator: Maureen Greene, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Presenters will share lessons learned around the use of telephone efforts. Topics explored will include the impact of speech analytics on telephone survey metrics, the art of inbound phone data collection, exploring cost-benefit trade-offs in a multi-mode survey, and the use of paradata for effective contract information management.
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| 3B – Field | Use of Mixed-Methods in Project Design Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Pike 3 Facilitator: Ella Kemp, NORC at the University of Chicago Presenters will share lessons learned related to mixed methods approaches to project design.
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| 3C – Field | Field Quality Monitoring Round Table Roundtable Discussion: Center Management and Staff Training Location: Nieto Facilitator: Mary C Davis, U.S. Census Bureau Attendees will discuss the quality of field monitoring efforts with a focus on detecting and mitigating interviewer falsification of data. |
| 3D – Tech | Quality and Analysis Presentation & Discussion: Field Tech (Soft Tech) Location: Broadlind Ballroom Facilitator: Eric White, University of Wisconsin Survey Center Presenters will show tools, processes, and approaches to improving quality for analysis tasks.
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| 2:15pm-2:45pm on Monday | |
| Monday PM Break Location: Outside Bixby 1, 2 & 3 Refreshments served | |
| Session 4 | 2:45pm-4:00pm on Monday |
| 4A – Field | Strategies and Lessons Learned in Surveying Youth Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Broadlind Ballroom Facilitator: Shae Herndon, RTI International Presenters will present on their varied and unique projects involving youth and lessons learned from their projects.
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| 4B – Field | Training, Support, Retention, and Team-Building Presentation & Discussion: Center Management and Staff Training Location: Pike 3 Facilitator: Josh Winston, U.S. Census Bureau Presenters will discuss these inter-related topics and lessons learned.
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| 4C – Field | R Workshop – Field Workshop: Field Tech (Soft Tech) Location: Nieto Facilitator: Peter Herman, NORC at the University of Chicago This session is intended for non-programmers who need to manage or produce reports or just need to know enough about R to be able to understand what programmers are talking about. Topics covered may include:
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| 4D – Tech | Tech Talk Roundtable Discussion: Field Tech (Soft Tech) Location: Wilmore Facilitator: Orin Day, RTI International Join attendees with an interest in the technical aspects and challenges that face survey technology 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. |
| Session 5 | 4:15pm-5:15pm on Monday |
| 5A – All | Business Meeting Roundtable Discussion Location: Bixby 1, 2 & 3 Facilitator: Kevin Tharp, Indiana University Center for Survey Research 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 the Business Meeting. We welcome participation from first year-attendees too. |
| Tuesday June 27, 2023 | |
| 7:00am-8:30am on Tuesday | |
| Breakfast Location: Bixby 4 & 5 Buffet breakfast served | |
| Session 6 | 8:30am-9:45am on Tuesday |
| 6A – All | Keynote – All About Probability-Based Online (and Mostly Online) Panels: Data Quality, Costs, and Operational Logistics Ipek Bilgen, NORC at the University of Chicago Invited Address Location: Bixby 1, 2 & 3 Facilitator: Kyle Fennell, NORC at the University of Chicago
Due to increasing survey costs and declining response rates, probability-based online (and mostly online) panels have become a viable research vehicle for private, foundational, non-profit, academic, and even for federally sponsored surveys. The attraction of probability-based online panels for surveys is their ability to attain, dependent upon their recruitment methodologies, comparable response rates to cross-sectional surveys at a lower cost and more expeditiously. This presentation will provide a guide for consumers of probability-based online panels to understand what they are working with: What questions to ask and what features to understand about probability-based online panels in evaluating their use for data collection, and how to best use probability-based panel data. Additionally, it will serve as an exploration of best practices for practitioners: Raising issues of total survey error sources, data quality, costs, and operational logistics. Ipek Bilgen is a Principal Research Methodologist in the Methodology and Quantitative Social Sciences Department at NORC at the University of Chicago. She serves as Deputy Director of NORC’s Center for Panel Survey Sciences and oversees AmeriSpeak’s methodological research. Dr. Bilgen is currently serving as Associate Editor of Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ). She also teaches Survey Questionnaire Design course at the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. |
| 9:45am-10:15am on Tuesday | |
| Tuesday AM Break Location: Outside Bixby 1, 2 & 3 Refreshments served | |
| Session 7 | 10:15am-11:30am on Tuesday |
| 7A – Field | Data Quality Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Broadlind Ballroom Facilitator: Ronald Langley, University of Kentucky – Kentucky HEALing Communities Study Presenters will discuss data quality. Topics addressed will include data quality challenges for a web-based survey, using a tiered approach to data quality, and uses of keyboard vs mousepad considering efficiency, accuracy, and interviewer burden.
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| 7B – Field | Data Collection: Incentives Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Pike 3 Facilitator: John Baker, U.S. Census Bureau Presenters will discuss the use of nonmonetary incentives and virtual unconditional incentive vouchers.
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| 7C – Field | In-Field Housing Unit Enumeration – Successes, Challenges and Future Directions for the Decennial Census Program Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Wilmore Facilitator: Kyle Fennell, NORC at the University of Chicago Participants will review the 2020 Census Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) proxy contact strategies, Participants will review key components of the 2020 Census Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) Operation, including the successes and challenges related to the use of proxy contact strategies and multi-unit manger visits. They will then explore new directions for future research to improve the quality of data collected during in-field housing unit enumeration for the Decennial Census Program, such as introducing self-response for in-field enumeration, improving proxy contact strategies, and innovating enumeration methods at multiunit housing units.
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| 7D – Tech | R Workshop – Tech Workshop: General Tech (Hard Tech) Location: Nieto Facilitator: Charlotte Looby, RTI International Participants will learn how to configure and use R to analyze simple data. This session is intended for those who have a tech/programming background but are newer to R. Topics covered may include:
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| 11:30am-12:30pm on Tuesday | |
| Random Digit Dining – Tuesday Lunch Location: Bixby 4 & 5 Bring your RDD lunch ticket and join us for lunch. Attendees are seated at tables according to the number drawn on their lunch tickets at check in. RDD lunch is a fun way to meet and get to know other attendees! | |
| Session 8 | 1:00pm-2:15pm on Tuesday |
| 8A – Field | Weighting Sample, Survey Testing, Design, and Participant Engagement Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Broadlind Ballroom Facilitator: Lisa Holland, UM-Survey Research Center (UM-SRC) Presenters will discuss composite weighting in hybrid samples, improving the quality of testing research surveys, adaptive survey design, and the impact of post-wave engagement strategy on attrition.
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| 8B – Field | Working with Targeted Populations I Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Pike 3 Facilitator: Jennifer Draude-Wilson, NORC at the University of Chicago Presenters will discuss methods used for data collection with specific populations.
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| 8C – Field | Small Shop Marketing and Client Retention Roundtable Roundtable Discussion: Center Management and Staff Training Location: Nieto Facilitator: Delicia Solis, MSU Office for Survey Research Traditional Small Shop Roundtable with focus on marketing, retention, and budget. |
| 8D – Tech | Soft Tech Solutions Presentation & Discussion: Field Tech (Soft Tech) Location: Wilmore Facilitator: Chris Corey, RAND Survey Research Group Presenters discuss various solutions to incentives, assessments, compliance, and household operationalizing.
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| 2:15pm-2:45pm on Tuesday | |
| Tuesday PM Break Location: Outside Bixby 1, 2 & 3 Refreshments served | |
| Session 9 | 2:45pm-4:00pm on Tuesday |
| 9A – Field | Training Presentation & Discussion: Center Management and Staff Training Location: Broadlind Ballroom Facilitator: Rick Garvey, RAND Survey Research Group Presenters will starting over with field operations, lessons learned from resuming in-person data collection and training, and adjusting a survey to the reality of a remote community.
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| 9B – Field | Working with Targeted Populations II: Underrepresented Communities Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Pike 3 Facilitator: Jason Fiero, RTI International Presenters will discuss methods used for data collection with specific underrepresented populations.
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| 9C – Field | Project Management: Complex Studies Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Wilmore Facilitator: Michele Pennington, RTI International Presenters will present on varied issues involving complex studies.
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| 9D – Tech | Software Solutions Presentation & Discussion: Field Tech (Soft Tech) Location: Nieto Facilitator: Bianca DiJulio, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute Presenters discuss customized solutions for software, testing and quality control.
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| Session 10 | 4:15pm-5:15pm on Tuesday |
| 10A – All | Early Career Happy Hour Roundtable Discussion Location: Hospitality Suite, 3rd Floor Facilitator: Marie Nitschke, University of Wisconsin Survey Center New to IFDTC this year or first time back in a long time? Are you early in your career and looking to make some connections with folks at other shops? Come by the hospitality suite to chat, compare experiences, and exchange contact information with people in similar positions. Please don’t be shy! There will be some simple, if not fun, ice breakers to help you get to know your fellow attendees. |
| Wednesday June 28, 2023 | |
| 7:00am-8:30am on Wednesday | |
| Breakfast Location: Bixby 4 & 5 Buffet breakfast served | |
| Session 11 | 8:30am-9:45am on Wednesday |
| 11A – Field | Response Rates and Nonresponse Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Pike 3 Facilitator: LeeAnn Sell, Indiana University Center for Survey Research 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.
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| 11B – Field | Building a Statewide Probability Panel Round Table Roundtable Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Wilmore Facilitator: Tracy Keirns, University of New Hampshire Attendees will discuss the challenges and successes of building a statewide probability panel |
| 11C – Field | Optimal Use of Mail in Project Design Presentation & Discussion: Survey Methodology Location: Broadlind Ballroom Facilitator: Jason Fiero, RTI International 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.
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| 11D – Tech | Small Shop Tech Roundtable Roundtable Discussion: Field Tech (Soft Tech) Location: Nieto Facilitator: Bianca DiJulio, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute 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. |
| 9:45am-10:15am on Wednesday | |
| Wednesday AM Break Location: Outside Bixby 1, 2 & 3 Refreshments served | |
| Session 12 | 10:15am-11:15am on Wednesday |
| 12A – All | Crowdsource My Problem! Roundtable Discussion Location: Bixby 1, 2 & 3 Facilitator: Kevin Tharp, Indiana University Center for Survey Research 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! |
Program – 2023
IFD&TC 56th Annual Conference
June 25th-28th, 2023
Long Beach, California
2023 Conference Program
