Several dozen NORC staff members will participate in panel discussions and present papers and posters at the upcoming annual meetings of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). The conferences, held in New Orleans from May 15-18, highlight the findings of scientists and organizations working in the public opinion industry.

Papers and posters accepted for presentation by AAPOR and/or WAPOR include: 

• Amaya, A., Euler, G., Khare, M. and Luke, J. "Which Sampling Frame is Better?: An analysis of Two List Samples in the National Immunization Survey Adult."
• Barron, M. "How Much Is It Worth to You? A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Incentives on Study Participation."
• Barron, M., Khare, M. and Zhao, Z. "Calculating Response Rates for Cell Phone Surveys."
• Bartolone, J. and Hicks-Bartlett, S. "Conducting Qualitative Research Within a Quantitative Survey Research Context."
• Brooks, K., Nysse-Carris, K., O’Connor, K. and Satorius, J. "On a Wing, a Prayer, and a Phone Number: Using Minimal Household Data to Locate Young Mobile Respondents."
• Carroll, T. "Interpreting Appointments: How often is an Appointment Actually a Refusal?"
• Costanzo, D., Nysse-Carris, K., O’Connor, K. and Sipulski, E. "Blast from the Past: The Challenges of Gaining Cooperation for a Follow-up Survey Several Years Later."
• Dalton, K. and Wilson, D.C. "Beliefs about the Negative Effects Immigrants Have on Society."
• Eckman, S. "Response Rate Prediction from Call History Datasets."
• English, N., Haggerty, C., and O'Muircheartaigh, C. "We Know Where You Live: The Impact of Movement on Differential Panel Survey Attrition."
• Foster, E. and Cynamon, M. "The Impact of Changes in Informed Consent Language."  
• Frasier, A., Carroll, T., Graber, J. and O’Connor, K. "Respondent Incentives: Do they Alter Data Quality or Study Findings?"
• Ghadialy, R. and Jain, A.  "Native American Response Patterns in Comparison to Other Minority Populations."
• Graber, J.E., “What Makes Respondents Change their Minds about Participating?:  Comparing Converters to Stable Refusers in an In-Person Survey of Older Adults."
• Howes, C., deBello, A., Wolter, K. and Wooten, K.  “Practical Steps to Conducting Cellular Telephone Surveys.”
• Lee, L., Haggerty, C., Ernst, M. and Rasinski, K.  "An Evaluation of Nonresponse Bias in a Public Housing Survey."
• Montgomery, M., Jain, N., Singleton, J. and Khare, M.  "Assessment of Bias in the National Immunization Survey-Teen: Benchmarking to the National Health Interview Survey."
• Montgomery, R. “A Dynamic Model of the Tradeoff between Telephone Interview Length and Screening Success.”
• Morrison, H., Blumberg, S., Montgomery, R. and Murphy, W.  “From Household to Business and Back Again: the Impact of Telephone Number Churn on RDD Response Rates.”
• Shin, H-C. and Molinari, N. “A Dual-frame Design for National Immunization Survey.”
• Smith, T.W. "National Pride in Specific Domains.”
• Smith, T.W.  "Testing MIDA to Deal with Survey Nonresponse.”
• Smith, T.W.  "Testing the Functional Equivalency of Spanish Translations on the 2006 General Social Survey."
• Smith, T.W.  “Trends in Religion and Civic Engagement in the United States: 1972-2006.”
• Smith, T.W. “Treating Translation as a Scientific Component of Cross-national Research."
• Smith, T.W., Kim, J., Sokolowski, J., English, N. and Shin, H-C.  "Who Moves? The General Social Survey Panel Survey.”
• Welch, E., Adighibe, E. and Jain, N. “Modifying Advance Letter Formats to Improve Readability and Response Rates.”
• Welch, V., Webber, K. and Williams, K. "Examining the Effects of Updating Response Ranges in a Longitudinal Survey."
• Wolter, K. and Smith, P. “Statistical Foundations of Cell-Telephone Surveys.”
• Xu, C. and Euler, G. "Optimizing Sample Allocation according to Interviewer’s Experience in a RDD Telephone Survey.”
• Yan, T., Khare, M., Smith, P. and Xu, C. 2008. “A Comparison of Listed and Unlisted Households on Nonresponse and Measurement Error.”