My research focuses on survey methods, with a particular focus on why measurement, nonresponse, and coverage errors occur in surveys, as well as survey costs. I am particularly interested in interviewer effects in survey data, including the interaction between interviewer and respondent, mixed mode data collection methods, and survey costs. I am the lead editor on 2020 book containing papers from a workshop held at UNL in 2019 on interviewer effects. I am also interested in how question wording, visual design, and survey mode and device decisions affect the quality of answers to survey questions in mail and web surveys. I recently chaired a Task Force for AAPOR on surveys that transition from interviewer-administered to self-administered or mixed mode surveys. My recent research on coverage errors has examined a variety of methods for selecting a respondent within a household in self-administered surveys, including methods to improve this selection. My research on survey costs identifies the need for consistent cost measurements.<br><br>Dr. Jolene Smyth (also in the UNL Sociology department) and I work collaboratively on a number of projects related to surveys. We field experiments and study properties of survey questions observationally. I also work collaboratively with a wide range of researchers at Nebraska and other institutions.
Current Research/Work:
I'm a professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I'm also editor-in-chief of the survey methodology side of the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.
More information about me:
UNL’s library makes my publications available in our Open Access archive: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub/
