2016 Annual PAPOR Conference

Agenda and Presentations

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016
8:00AM – 10:15AM Short Course 1: Usability Testing for Survey Research, Emily Geisen (RTI)
10:30AM – 12:45PM Short Course 2: Election Polls & Registration-Based Sampling: A New Method for Pre-Election Polling & Likely Voter Models, Quin Monson (Brigham Young University) and Scotty Riding (Y2 Analytics)
2:30PM – 3:30PM Panel 1: Sampling, Design and Analysis
Chair: Laura Wronski (SurveyMonkey)

Comparing Two Methods to Estimate Missing Maximum Difference Utilities, Paul Johnson (SSI), Kelsey White (SSI) Presentation

Accessing Hard-to-Reach Populations:  A Case Study, Jennifer D. Franz (JD Franz Research, Inc.) Presentation

Lessons from Audiofiles: Verification and Mixed Methods Analysis, Leora Lawton, Lindsay Bayham, Haleigh Cummings, Ashley Sandoval (University of California, Berkeley) Presentation

Running Surveys with Businesses in Japan: Comparison of Pre-testing Methods Using Expert Reviews and Cognitive Interviews, Dandan Zhang (Twitter) Presentation

First Place Student Paper Competition Winner: Remembering the Alamo: Demographic change and Texas politics, Tom Holub (University of California, Berkeley) Presentation

4:00PM – 5:30PM Panel 2: The 2016 Election — What Happened and What’s Next?
Chair: Floyd Ciruli (Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research)

If Populism Is the Rage, Is Polling in Trouble? Floyd Ciruli (Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research) Presentation

A Comparison of The USC Dornsife / Los Angeles Times 2016 Election “Daybreak” Poll’s Pre and Post Election Results, Jill E. Darling, Tania Gutsche, Arie Kapteyn, Erik Meijer and Bas Weerman (University of Southern California)

SurveyMonkey Election Tracking: Lessons Learned from 1 Million Interviews, Sarah Cho, Jack Chen, Jon Cohen, Mark Blumenthal and Laura Wronski (SurveyMonkey)

A Closer Look at California’s 4.5 Million Trump Voters, David Kordus and Dean Bonner (Public Policy Institute of California)

 6:15PM – 8:45PM Plenary event: The Intersection of Survey Science, Data Science and Behavioral Science
Featuring:

Michael Link (Abt SRBI)

Naomi Grewal (Facebook)

Facilitator: Paul Johnson (SSI)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2016
8:30am – 10:00am Panel 3: Public Opinion on Important Social Issues
Chair: Bianca DiJulio (Kaiser Family Foundation)

Immigration Attitudes Among the White Working Class, Liz Hamel and Elise Sugarman (Kaiser Family Foundation)

Victimization of LGBTQ Populations: Experiences and Fears, Jeff Henne (The Henne Group)

The Amplification of Economic Inequality Due to Inequality in Political Participation by Age, Henry E. Brady and Sonja Petek (University of California, Berkeley)

An Alternative Approach to Election Polling: The USC Dornsife / Los Angeles Times 2016 Election “Daybreak” Poll, Jill E. Darling, Tania Gutsche, Arie Kapteyn, Erik Meijer, Bas Weerman (University of Southern California)

 10:45am – 12:15pm Panel 4: Survey Design and Best Practices
Chair: Mira Norton (Dropbox)

Best Practices: Fielding Section 508 Compliant Web Surveys for Respondents with Disabilities, Bob Davis (Davis Research) Presentation

Improving Survey Response Rates: The Effect of Embedded Questions in Web Survey Email Invitations, Nick Inchausti (SurveyMonkey) and Mingnan Liu (Facebook) Presentation

Consistency is Key: Replication of Results across Online Non-probability Sample Sources, Nicole Buttermore, Frances M. Barlas and Randall K. Thomas (GfK) Presentation

Student Paper Competition Runner-Up: New Insights on the Cognitive Processing of Agree/Disagree and Item-Specific Questions, Jan Karem Höhne (Stanford University) and Timo Lenzner (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Science) Presentation

1:30pm – 3:00pm Panel 5: Marijuana and Public Opinion Change
Chair: Floyd Ciruli (Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research)

Commercialization of Marijuana is Not the Same as Legalization: Time to Change the Question? Floyd Ciruli (Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research) Presentation

California’s Marijuana Majority, Mark Baldassare (Public Policy Institute of California)