Julie Smith holds a Ph.D. in educational evaluation and research from Wayne State University; a M.P.H. in environmental health science from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; and a Bachelor’s of Science in physical science and biology from Michigan State University. She is certified to teach secondary education (grades 6-12) in the State of Michigan. Julie has […]
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Natalie Shlomo is a Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Her research interests are in survey methodology and official statistics. She is the UK principle investigator for several collaborative grants from the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union, all involving research in improving survey methods and dissemination. She […]
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Barry Schouten is a Senior Methodologist in the Division of Methodology and Quality at Statistics Netherlands. Dr. Schouten’s research interests include nonresponse bias, measurement error, mixed-mode surveys, and adaptive or responsive survey design. He is a principal developer of the R-Indicator, a new measure of survey quality that measures how well a set of respondents […]
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Nora Cate Schaeffer is Sewell Bascom Professor of Sociology, Emerita, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the time of her retirement, she served as the Faculty Director of the University of Wisconsin Survey Center (UWSC) and Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Social Sciences. She remains an affiliate of UWSC and a member […]
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Nancy Riley is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and A. Myrick Freeman Chair of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College (Maine). She received her MA (Sociology) and MPH (Public Health) from the University of Hawai`i and her Ph.D (demography) from Johns Hopkins University. Her research has focused primarily on family, gender, and population in […]
Continue ReadingEmilia Peytcheva
Emilia Peytcheva is a research survey methodologist with RTI International. She holds a PhD. in survey methodology from the University of Michigan. Peytcheva’s research expertise includes measurement error-inducing factors in cross-cultural research and the interplay among survey errors and their combined effect on total survey error. Her interests include methods for minimizing measurement error induced […]
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Andy Peytchev is a senior survey methodologist at RTI International. His research interests include study designs that minimize total survey error and is particularly interested in the study, reduction, and adjustment of nonresponse and measurement error. Dr. Peytchev’s recent work includes the evaluation of split questionnaire design, multi-frame and multi-phase study design, development of adaptive […]
Continue ReadingRaphael Nishimura
Raphael Nishimura is the Director of Sampling Operations of the Survey Research Operations (SRO) within the Survey Research Center (SRC) at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR). He holds a PhD in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the University of São Paulo. His main […]
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Zeina Mneimneh is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Survey Methodology Program within the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in Survey Methodology from University of Michigan. She has more than 15 years of experience in designing, conducting, and overseeing large-scale surveys and is a collaborator in the cross-national World Mental Health […]
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Peter V. Miller is a Senior Researcher for Survey Measurement at the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and Chief Scientist in the Bureau’s Center for Adaptive Design. He joined the staff of the Census Bureau in 2011. Before arriving at Census, Dr. Miller spent 29 years at Northwestern University, where he holds an appointment as […]
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