Vince Welch

Vince Welch, Jr. is a Senior Survey Methodologist in the Statistics and Methodology Department at NORC at the University of Chicago.  He has responsibility for the analysis of complex survey data, survey design, qualitative analyses and research methodology.  Welch has been at NORC ten years.

Welch has served as the task leader for analysis and reporting on the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) for the past five years.  His areas of research interest include cognitive issues in responding to surveys on mobile phones, the measurement and reporting of race and ethnicity, statistical disclosure avoidance techniques in tabular and micro-data, and survey design and psychometrics.

Prior to joining NORC, Welch served as a research analyst on the HIV Integration Program study at the CORE center at Cook County Hospital and was an undergraduate instructor at Loyola University Chicago.

Welch has presented numerous professional presentations American Association for Public Opinion Research, The American Sociological Association, The Midwest Psychological Association, and the American Statistical Association on topics such as the effect of item structure on the accuracy of recall for autobiographical milestones on surveys, optimal response formats for the collection of salary data, and the validity of race and ethnicity for non-U.S. citizens in the U.S.