Robert Montgomery is a Senior Statistician in the Statistics and Methodology department at NORC. He is the Manager of Sample Release and Monitoring for the National Immunization Survey and oversees a team of statisticians responsible for sampling, monitoring, response rates, contact methodology, and quality control.
Montgomery has more than 12 years of experience in both survey methodology and statistical analysis and programing. He has designed, implemented, and led teams of statisticians and programmers in large data delivery efforts for the NIS, Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH U.S.), the Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs, the Survey of Small Business Finances, and others. He has also made extensive improvements to sample management practices for the NIS, REACH, the National Flu Survey, and other studies. He is an expert in cellphone sampling and methodology, telephone survey design, and calling rules.
Prior to NORC, Montgomery was a Statistical Analyst with the Gallup Organization. In this role he led the data delivery activities for several large federal surveys including the National Study of Post-Secondary Faculty. He also consulted with clients and performed data analysis in areas including market research, customer and employee engagement, education pricing, and program evaluation.
Montgomery's expertise includes telephone survey methodology, survey design optimization, statistical analysis, and advanced programming.
Montgomery has co-authored several publications and conference presentations on topics including cellphone surveys, telephone sampling, survey response and non-response, and weighting.