Jibum Kim

Senior Research Scientist

Center for the Study of Politics and Society

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago
M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago
B.A., Sociology, George Washington University

Jibum Kim is a Senior Research Scientist at the Academic Research Centers at NORC and associated with Center on Aging and the Population Research Center. Jibum Kim has 11 years of experience on the General Social Survey. His research focuses on survey design and methodology, aging, and religion. He is the author of Trends in Surveys on Surveys (Kim, Gershenson, Glaser, and Smith, 2011), Trends of Religious Identification in Korea: Changes and Continuities (Kim, Lee, Son, and Smith, 2009), and The Role of Community Context in Immigrant Elderly Living Arrangements: Korean American Elderly (Kim and Lauderdale, 2002). He is currently working on studying aging anxiety in the United States, China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and on the assocation betweeen Social Security Number provision and mortality using the General Social Survey-National Death Index data.

Representative Projects

National Data Program for the Social Sciences (NDPSS). The National Data Program for the Social Sciences (NDPSS) is a highly productive social indicators, infrastructure, and data-diffusion program. More

General Social Survey (GSS). Since 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) has been monitoring societal change and studying the growing complexity of American society. The GSS is NORC’s longest running project, and one of its most influential. More

Contact

Jibum Kim

(773) 256-6285

kim-jibum@norc.org

Published Research

"An Assessment of the Multi-Level Integrated Database Approach."
"Community Context and Cooperation Rate."
"Comparison between Self-Administered Questionnaire and Computer-Assisted Self-Interview for Supplemental Survey Nonresponse."
"Confidence in Religious Leaders in Korea : A Research Note."
"The Culture of Poverty: Do Neighborhood Racial Composition and Poverty Matter?"
"The General Social Survey—National Death Index: An Innovative New Dataset for the Social Sciences."
"Living Arrangement and the Life Satisfaction of Korean Older Adults: Examining the Mediating Effects of Parent-Adult Child Relationship" (in Korean).
"The Polls—Trends: How Americans Think about North Korea: 2000–2007."
"The Polls—Trends: Trends in Surveys on Surveys."
"Response Rate and Community Context: Comparison of U.S. Census and the General Social Survey" (in Korean).
"The Role of Community Context in Immigrant Elderly Living Arrangements: Korean American Elderly."
"Social Science Research and the General Social Surveys."
"Trends of Religious Identification in Korea: Changes and Continuities."
"Volunteering among Older People in Korea."