AAPOR Annual Conference
The AAPOR Annual Conference is the premier forum for the exchange of advances in public opinion and survey research. The Conference allows attendees to network with colleagues, learn the latest updates and trends in the field and make new connections. The meeting highlights innovative research, short courses and discussion forums for attendees of diverse disciplines from around the world.
Please join Ipsos experts who will be presenting the following topics at the conference:
| Session Title | Title | Description | Date/Time | Presenting Author |
| Assessing the Polls: Measuring Bias and Vote Choice | Uncovering the gaps: Examination of differential non-response in the Ipsos-FiveThirtyEight 2022 midterm panel study | This paper presents original data and analysis from the Ipsos-FiveThirtyEight 2022 midterm election program to show patterns of nonresponse that could explain the poll error and point to potential solutions. | Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 9:30 AM | Chris Jackson |
| Assessing the Polls: Measuring Bias and Vote Choice | Get off my lawn: Evaluation of alternative population parameters in election polls using the Ipsos-NYT Wisconsin ABS mail study | This paper describes non-traditional benchmark items, ranging from presence of a “no trespassing” sign in the household to numbers of books read, from the benchmarking ABS survey. It also displays how these items correlate with vote preference in the 2022 Wisconsin senate and gubernatorial elections. | Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 9:30 AM | Chris Jackson |
| Elections and Parties | True Independents? Analyzing Self-Reported Political ‘Independents’ in the Era of Polarization | The study addresses the propensity of self-reported 'Independents' to change partisan groups (e.g., Republicans, Democrats) as well as the attitudinal/ideological composition of Independents | Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 9:30 AM | Luda Andriyevska |
| Come In and Stay a While: Recruiting and Measuring Attrition | New Innovations in Recruiting Non-Internet Households for KnowledgePanel | Investigating the impacts of the new device-enabling program. Will show how the switch to a more modern internet provision strategy (from dial-up to tablets with mobile data plans) allows us to better represent the non-internet population | Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 3:30 PM | Fei He |
| Checking all the Boxes: Impact and Effect of Response Formats | Agree with Me: Polarity Effects in Agreement and Item-Specific Question Types | This study compares unipolar and bipolar response formats and agreement and item-specific question types using ten questions about political and social attitudes. | Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 3:30 PM | Megan A. Hendrich |
| Beliefs and Values: Their Role in Politics | From the Pews to Public Opinion: Does Religious Affiliation and Participation Correlate with Survey Participation? | Using eight survey waves of a PRRI/Ipsos study (conducted on the KnowledgePanel®), we will analyze whether more frequent participation in religious services correlates with higher survey participation. We will also test whether members of certain religious groups are more likely to respond to survey invitations. | Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 8:00 AM | Natalie Jackson |
| Cognitive Interviews and Exploring How Respondents Think | What Does That Mean to You? Findings from Cognitive Testing the Survey of Household Economic Decisionmaking | Used cognitive testing for new questions to an existing survey. Findings from this testing were used to revise question-wording for the SHED survey to produce more precise and reliable estimates. | Thursday, May 11, 2023: 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Kelly Bell & Alicia Lloro |
| Understanding the 2022 Midterm Elections | Don’t mind the noise: Tracking stability of vote intent in the Ipsos-FiveThirtyEight 2022 midterm panel study | This paper presents original data and analysis from the Ipsos-FiveThirtyEight 2022 midterm election program to show the high degree of stability in individual-level vote preference over time. | Thursday, May 11, 2023: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Bernard Mendez |
| Understanding the 2022 Midterm Elections | Who Distrusts the Election before a Single Vote Is Tallied? Evidence from Panel Data and a Pre-Post 2022 Midterm Election Study | A pre-post examination of trust in elections paired with economic measures from the KnowledgePanel. | Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 10:15 AM | Jen Durow |
| Understanding the 2022 Midterm Elections | It’s All in the Timing: Sample Composition and Vote Choice By Completion Date | This study investigates how early responders differ from the overall sample in terms of sample composition and vote choice using two probability-based samples (the first from an online probability-based panel and the second from an address-based sample using a mail-back survey). | Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 10:15 AM | Megan A. Hendrich |
| Religion and Public Opinion | Religion and Impact of Jesus in 2021 | The poll sought to understand how American Christians are thinking about Jesus, and how national issues, such as the January 6 insurrection might or might not be seen as driven by religious groups | Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 1:45 PM | Chris Moessner |
| Attitudes about Rights, the Economy, and other Issues | It’s not the economy stupid: Using the Ipsos-FiveThirtyEight 2022 midterm panel study to track the issues driving the midterm vote | This paper presents original data and analysis from the Ipsos-FiveThirtyEight 2022 midterm election program to show the set of issues most highly connected to intent to vote Democratic or Republicans. | Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 1:45 PM | Sarah Feldman |
| Poster Session 2 | Results of an Experimental Incentive Design for the National Household Travel Survey | Reports on a pilot study for the DOT travel diary study where we experimented on the nature of incentives to examine what might improve response yield. | Thursday, May 11, 2023 @ 3:15 - 4:15 | Dina Rezk |
| The Next Top Sample: Comparisons of Probability and Nonprobability Samples | Sharpening Focus: Assessing Bias in Different Samples for a State-Specific Poll | Determined extent of bias from benchmarks for opt-in, KP, and ABS in a political study conducted in Wisconsin with NYT | Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 4:30 PM | Katie E. Furrow |
| The Next Top Sample | Probability-Panels as Mainstream Methods: Where They Work, Where They Don’t & Why | This study compares KP results to 50+ benchmark industry standards and explores where & why panels work or miss the mark | Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 4:30 PM | Michael Link |
| Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Questionnaire Design | It’s In the Numbers: Can Acquiescence Occur for Numeric Responses, Not Just Verbal Labels? | Compared numeric scales with verbal labels to determine if acquiescence bias is due to use of bipolar scales regardless of labels. | Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 4:30 PM | Randall K. Thomas |
| Partisan Polarization and Societal Outcomes | Partisanship at the Water’s Edge: U.S. Public Opinion Towards the Russian-Ukraine War from 2014-Present | The study examines partisan views among Americans in their support for Ukrainian aid from 2014 to present | Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 4:30 PM | Ryan Tully |
| Why do you say that?: Scales and response formats | Mind the Gap: Does Acquiescence Bias Occur in End Labeled Scales? | Examined how end-labeled response formats differ from fully-labeled formats comparing extent of apparent acquiescence bias. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 8:00 AM | Katie E. Furrow |
| Why do you say that?: Scales and response formats | How Do You Identify?: Race and Ethnicity Measurement in the U.S. | Explored how measurement of race-ethnicity is related to cultural identity. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 8:00 AM | Kip Davis |
| Why do you say that?: Scales and response formats | Under My Thumb: Scale Compression in Testing for Acquiescence Bias | A paper comparing the outcomes of using compressed unipolar, non-compressed unipolar and bipolar scales in in political questions and these variants ‘impact on acquiescence bias. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 8:00 AM | Mina Muller |
| How Can I Find You? Contact Experiments to Increase Response | It’s in the Mail: Method of Mail Delivery, Response Rates, and Representation in ABS studies | In a study with New York Times, we compared how initial invite impacted response rates and representativeness of the sample. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 8:00 AM | Randall K. Thomas |
| Attitudes: Methods and Measures | Different Samples, Different Predictions? Comparing Regression Results across Samples | The study utilizes regression models to predict political and non-political behaviors/attitudes based on different sample types (ABS, KP, Opt-In) | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 8:00 AM | Ryan Tully |
| Elections and Nonresponse | Learning from the Past: Using Stated Past Vote to Correct for Nonresponse in Election Surveys | Analysis of poll bias and the impact of using “past vote” as a weight factor across recent elections in the U.S., France, and Brazil | Friday, May 12, 2023: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Cliff Young |
| Elections and Nonresponse | Voter Validation Across Modes: What a Nonresponse Study in Wisconsin Can Teach Us About Validated Turnout | Uses voter files to match with our Wisconsin samples to determine accuracy of voter registration and voting. | Friday, May 12, 2023: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ruth Igielnik |
| Modern Approaches to Examining Total Survey Quality | Defining a “DEI First” Survey Design: Rethinking Survey Representation Thru theLens of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | Define and provide preliminary tests of new framework for designing surveys focusing on diversity, equity & inclusion first to improve representation. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 10:00 AM | Michael Link |
| Power to the Panels | Measured Response: The Pitfalls and Promises of Maintaining a Panel of Passive Metered Panelists | In the study, we follow two recruitment waves of over 2,000 participants to a digital panel in terms of participant cognitive and effective responses to passive monitoring, the impact of incentives, and how the initial ‘ask’ can impact both compliance rates and attention. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 10:00 AM | Margie Strickland |
| Power to the Panels | Understanding the Effects of Panel Satisfaction on Panel Attrition and Retention | Examines effects of panel satisfaction on attrition/retention paradata, and concludes that attrition groups also seem to enjoy the panel, but propensity to report burden is more likely in the attrition group | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 10:00 AM | Jen Durow |
| Capture the Flag: Efficacy of Auxiliary Information | Leveraging Targeted Sampling to Improve Panel Recruitment Among Latino Americans | Examined how targeted sample for Latino Americans could be used to improve the representation of this group within KP. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 10:00 AM | Frances M. Barlas |
| New Applications of Multiple Imputation | Using Multiple Imputation to Address Missing Mobile Device Metering Data | Comparing 3 MI approaches across 9 months of panel in situations where imputing data is very challenging | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 10:00 AM | Brittany Alexander |
| New Applications of Multiple Imputation and Model-Based Methods to Survey Research | Addressing Noncompliance Bias in Panel Studies Using Metered Behavioral Data | Side-by-side assessment of weighting vs. econometric selection adjustments for MNAR with 9 months of metered panel data with survey items chosen to address MNAR. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 10:30 AM | Rob Petrin |
| Poster Session 3 | Myth or Fact: Learn More, Earn More | To explore the relationship between education and household income and take a deeper look of the geodemographic differences of some education by household income population segments to assess overall representativeness among these key subgroups. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 12:45 PM | Elisa Chan |
| Poster Session #3 | The battle of attrition – Using noncontingent incentives to bring back AWOL panelists | Presenting results of offering a $5 noncontingent incentive panelists who have not responded to multiple consecutive surveys to try to get them reengaged. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 12:45 PM | Nick Bertoni |
| Estimating the Incidence and Severity of Long Haul COVID-19 in the US Veteran Population | COVID Variants Associated with Risk of Developing Long COVID | This paper compares Long COVID incidence among people who contracted COVID-19 while the Delta variant was the dominant variant and those who who contracted COVID-19 during the period of time when the Alpha variant was dominant. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 3:45 PM | Alan Roshwalb |
| Estimating the Incidence and Severity of Long Haul COVID-19 in the US Veteran Population | Predictors of Long COVID in the US Veteran Population | This paper presents the results of a nationally representative sample survey conducted among US Veterans to provide formative information on COVID-19 diagnoses, comparing results with the U.S. general population. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 3:45 PM | Amanda Purnell & Megan Shaheen |
| Estimating the Incidence and Severity of Long Haul COVID-19 in the US Veteran Population | Social Determinants of Health Associated with Long COVID | This paper examines the association of contracting Long COVID with a variety of social determinants of health, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, income, social support structures, and access to health care. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 3:45 PM | Kelly Bell |
| Estimating the Incidence and Severity of Long Haul COVID-19 in the US Veteran Population | Using Administrative Data to Understand Long COVID | This study seeks to see if people diagnosed with Long COVID have predictable patterns of health care utilization. In the period six months after being diagnosed with COVID-19, the average Veteran is not more or less likely to have an additional diagnosis apart from Long COVID. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 3:45 PM | Raymond Van Cleve |
| Estimating the Incidence and Severity of Long Haul COVID-19 in the US Veteran Population | Estimating Severity of Long COVID | This paper presents results from a specialty sample survey of US Veterans, which provides insight into COVID-19 symptom incidence rates for 22 individual acute and 22 individual long COVID symptoms, as well as levels of overall symptom severity for the Veteran population. | Friday, May 12, 2023 at 3:45 PM | Rob Petrin, Raymond Van Cleve |
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