Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Examining the impact of COVID-19 on adults with physical disabilities from marginalized communities (April 22, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83637 83637-21446269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This webinar will present the findings from a recent study on the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adults with physical disabilities from marginalized communities in Southeast Michigan, one of the early pandemic epicenters in the United States. Interviews with 16 adults revealed how participants either had to engage in risky behavior to have their needs met or avoid risk and not have those needs met. They contribute to understandings of risk, its impact on physical and psychological health, and the importance of accommodations. The study expands insight into early responses to the pandemic among individuals with long-term physical disabilities from marginalized communities. It helps elucidate how socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity can differentially impact the lives of adults with physical disabilities and further marginalize a population that is “always already” vulnerable. This knowledge can expand awareness and appreciation of how social, economic, and political systems are structured and integrated into future clinical guidelines and emergency response policies and more adequately addressed.

This webinar is free and open to the public. Communication Access Realtime Translation services will be available to provide live closed captions for the event.

The content of this webinar has been developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR #90RTHF0001). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this webinar do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, or HHS and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

Register at https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8RIqY8GES1q8EeoSya0JCQ.

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Presentation Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:28:26 -0400 2021-04-22T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Blue and white promotional flyer for UofM IDEAL RRTC Webinar - Examining Impact of COVID19 on Adults with Physical Disability from Marginalized Communities
Dimensions of Public Attitudes Toward the Affordable Care Act, 2010 through 2017 (July 27, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84752 84752-21624872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:12:05 -0400 2021-07-27T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture series
Dimensions of Public Attitudes Toward the Affordable Care Act, 2010 through 2017 (July 27, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84699 84699-21624454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30 pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:31:13 -0400 2021-07-27T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures 2021
Analyzing Open-Ended Responses for Understanding Opinions About Presidential Candidates (July 28, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84698 84698-21624453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:28:58 -0400 2021-07-28T19:30:00-04:00 2021-07-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Blalock Lecture series 2021
Harnessing Big Data for Health and Social Science Research (August 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84713 84713-21624468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This lecture will be pre-recorded and available two weeks before this session on the ICPSR Summer Program YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQWgr9Np3SKx54T_0hbo-Q

Please join us for this live Q&A session with the presenter on 8/3/21 at 12pm EDT at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock.

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:03:54 -0400 2021-08-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-08-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
The Youth Policy Lab: Partnership Driven Research to Improve the Lives of Young Michiganders (August 4, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84714 84714-21624469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:37:47 -0400 2021-08-04T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-04T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
Data Collection Methods in the Age of Data Science: Where Are We Headed? (August 5, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84715 84715-21624470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 5, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:39:39 -0400 2021-08-05T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-05T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
Measuring Exposure to News and Political Information in the Digital Age (August 10, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84716 84716-21624471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:44:49 -0400 2021-08-10T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-10T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture Series 2021
The Post-API Age Reconsidered: Social Media Research in the '20s and Beyond (August 11, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84717 84717-21624472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

This lecture will be pre-recorded and available two weeks before this session on the ICPSR Summer Program YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgQWgr9Np3SKx54T_0hbo-Q

Please join us for this live Q&A session with the presenter on 8/11/21 at 12pm EDT at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock.

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:30:58 -0400 2021-08-11T12:30:00-04:00 2021-08-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture series
Measuring White Racial Solidarity and Examining its Relationship to Political Attitudes and Preferences (August 12, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84718 84718-21624473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 12, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this Blalock lecture at 7:30pm EDT: https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2021Blalock

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lectures are virtual, free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:29:27 -0400 2021-08-12T19:30:00-04:00 2021-08-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation 2021 ICPSR Summer Program Blalock Lecture series
HAALSI - Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (September 9, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85067 85067-21625537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 9, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

HAALSI is a longitudinal, population-based survey implemented by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand, and is funded by the National Institutes on Aging.

HAALSI aims to examine and characterize a cohort of 5,059 men and women ≥ 40 years of age in rural South Africa with respect to health, physical and cognitive function, aging, and well-being, and is designed to be harmonized with other international HRS sister studies.

This webinar will feature the HAALSI research team: Dr. Julia Rohr – Research Scientist/Project Director; Dr. Elyse Jennings - Research Scientist; David Kapaon – Research Assistant.

During this webinar, we will:
Provide an overview of the HAALSI project
Describe the importance of the data that have been collected.
Participants will also have the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions.

This webinar is free and open to the public.
This webinar will be recorded and the recording will be sent to all registrants.
Zoom FAQ for Attendees: http://myumi.ch/kx2oo

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Presentation Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:23:00 -0400 2021-09-09T11:00:00-04:00 2021-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Promotional image for Health and Aging in Africa HAALSI webinar at ICPSR
How the Measurement and Meaning of Family Structure Shape Research on Young Adult Racial Inequality (September 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86249 86249-21632226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Abstract:
At the population level, Black and White youth in the United States enter adulthood after a lifetime of divergent family structure experiences. A substantial social science literature has investigated whether this variation in childhood family structure contributes to racial disparities in the timing, sequence, and context of events in the transition into adulthood. This discussion adopts a critical perspective on mainstream research on this topic. The panelists highlight opportunities in family demography, social stratification, human development, and race and ethnic studies to advance theory, measurement, and empirical modeling in order to more accurately reflect Black family organization and to situate Black and White families in the a broader context of racialized social, economic, and political inequality.

Speakers:
Paula Fomby is a research associate professor in the Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in Sociology with an emphasis in social demography from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research considers how family composition and family process contribute to variation in child and young adult well-being, particularly in the context of social inequality. Fomby is the associate director of the UM Population Studies Center, a co-investigator on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the associate director of the PSID Child Development Supplement.

Christina Cross is a postdoctoral fellow and incoming assistant professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She completed her PhD in Sociology and Public Policy at University of Michigan. Her research examines how family structure, change, and dynamics influence individual wellbeing across the life course, particularly among minority and/or low-income populations. Much of her work has focused on childhood as a key stage in the life course for the emergence and accumulation of social advantages or disadvantages.

Bethany Letiecq is an associate professor in the Human Development and Family Science program at George Mason University. - She received her PhD in health education/family studies and her MS in family and community development from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Letiecq employs community-based participatory and action research approaches to conduct research in partnership with families systematically marginalized by society to promote family health and justice. She is keenly interested in how social policies and practices facilitate or hinder family functioning and health across all families.

This event is an ISR Inclusive Research Matters presentation, sponsored by the Education Programs Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Team, the Population Studies Center and the Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science.

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:45:07 -0400 2021-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Assessing Measurement Error in Hypothetical Questions – Jennifer Sinibaldi and Adam Kaderabek - JPSM MPSDS Seminar Series (September 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87033 87033-21638154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Jennifer Sinibaldi, Research Director, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Adam Kaderabek, Research Assistant and Masters Student, Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Assessing Measurement Error in Hypothetical Questions
Although most opinion survey questions use factual, behavioral, and attitudinal questions that ask what the respondent is, has done, or currently feels, sometimes surveys use hypothetical questions that ask the respondent to imagine a particular situation and state what they would do or feel. We expect these questions to suffer from measurement error but without an objectively observable truth for reference, we cannot evaluate it. Psychologists and economists who have studied the error in respondents’ “stated” preferences have labeled this error hypothetical bias. Survey methodologists have conducted very little research in the area of hypothetical bias but understanding this error could be important for correcting stated preferences on topics like: mode preference, consent to record linkage, and whether the respondent would download an app with certain features.

We use data from an experiment that asked participants assigned to the treatment group to report their reaction to the experimental survey protocol they received. Meanwhile, those in the control group were asked hypothetically how they would react to the protocol if they had experienced it. We compare the responses to ten respondent reaction questions presented upon completion of the survey, identifying the presence of hypothetical bias across all 10 questions using both categorical and quantitative methods. We found that the Control group consistently exhibited less preference for the hypothetical protocol than the Treatment group. We believe these differences are representative of the measurement error resulting from the poor correspondence between the Control group’s hypothetical attitudes and the Treatment group’s reported experience. This work shows that hypothetical bias is a problem in opinion research and is the first to quantify the extent of that problem.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:04:53 -0400 2021-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Assessing Measurement Error in Hypothetical Questions – Jennifer Sinibaldi and Adam Kaderabek - JPSM MPSDS Seminar Series
Learning Analytics and Education Research Data (September 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86438 86438-21634314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

The PEERS Learning Analytics and Education Research Data webinar focus on using learning analytics data for STEM education research. The webinar will inform researchers about the potential of learning analytics data for their research, strategies for accessing learning analytics data, and relevant tools for analysis.

The presentations will cover topics such as learning sciences, access points of higher education data, relationships between cognitive theories of human learning, human-computer interactions, psychological theories of student engagement, and what goes on in college classes.

This webinar will feature the following researcher: Ben Motz (Indiana University), Rene Kizilcec (Cornell University), Xu Wang (University of Michigan), and James Russell (Unizin)

During this webinar, we will:
Define learning analytics
Describe the methods and importance of the research that have been conducted
Discuss how to access and work with the learning analytics datasets
Participants will also have the opportunity to provide feedback and ask questions.

This webinar is free and open to the public.
This webinar will be recorded and the recording will be sent to all registrants.
Zoom FAQ for Attendees: http://myumi.ch/kx2oo

Sponsored by the PEERS Data Hub: www.PeersDataHub.net

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Presentation Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:31:32 -0400 2021-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Promotional image for ICPSR webinar featuring teacher and student with green background
Data Positivity: Data Doing Good (October 6, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87738 87738-21645507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

How does data affect policy? Health care reform? The issues you care about? Find examples and practical resources during our virtual conference, "Data Positivity: Data Doing Good" 10/6-10/8, free and open to the public. Find a session list and register at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR-Biennial-Meeting

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:15:04 -0400 2021-10-06T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A bright, colorful promotional image for the ICPSR Biennial Meeting 2021
Data Positivity: Data Doing Good (October 7, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87738 87738-21645508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

How does data affect policy? Health care reform? The issues you care about? Find examples and practical resources during our virtual conference, "Data Positivity: Data Doing Good" 10/6-10/8, free and open to the public. Find a session list and register at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR-Biennial-Meeting

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:15:04 -0400 2021-10-07T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A bright, colorful promotional image for the ICPSR Biennial Meeting 2021
Data Positivity: Data Doing Good (October 8, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87738 87738-21645509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

How does data affect policy? Health care reform? The issues you care about? Find examples and practical resources during our virtual conference, "Data Positivity: Data Doing Good" 10/6-10/8, free and open to the public. Find a session list and register at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR-Biennial-Meeting

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:15:04 -0400 2021-10-08T10:30:00-04:00 2021-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A bright, colorful promotional image for the ICPSR Biennial Meeting 2021
Examining the Health Reform Monitoring Survey and the Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey Presented by the Urban Institute (October 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87749 87749-21645527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA) at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) on October 12 at 2:00 pm EDT for a free webinar, “Examining the Health Reform Monitoring Survey and the Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey Presented by the Urban Institute” featuring Stephan Zuckerman and Michael Karpman. The webinar is hosted by HMCA, a data repository funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Participants will get an overview of the surveys, learn about key findings from the latest data, and discover ways these studies can be used in health research. Participants will learn about the resources available on the RWJF and HMCA websites and have the opportunity to ask questions.

Register with this link: https://myumi.ch/YyEe2

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Presentation Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:44:15 -0400 2021-10-12T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Webinar Announcement with the Urban Institute and the Institute for Social Research on the Health Reform Monitoring Survey and the Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey
Jan Pablo Burgard - Spatial Dynamic Microsimulations - JPSM MPSDS Seminar Series (October 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87514 87514-21642905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Dr. Jan Pablo Burgard
University of Trier

Spatial Dynamic Microsimulations

Estimation of regional transition probabilities for spatial dynamic microsimulations from survey data lacking in regional detail

Spatial dynamic microsimulations allow for the multivariate analysis of complex systems with geographic segmentation. A synthetic replica of the system is stochastically projected into future periods using micro-level transition probabilities. These should accurately represent the dynamics of the system to allow for reliable simulation outcomes. In practice, transition probabilities are unknown and must be estimated from suitable survey data. This can be challenging when the dynamics vary locally. Survey data often lacks in regional detail due to confidentiality restrictions and limited sampling resources. In that case, transition probability estimates may misrepresent regional dynamics due to insufficient local observations and coverage problems. The simulation process subsequently fails to provide an authentic evolution of the system. A constrained maximum likelihood approach for probability alignment to solve these issues is proposed. It accounts for regional heterogeneity in transition dynamics through the consideration of external benchmarks from administrative records. It is proven that the method is consistent. A parametric bootstrap for uncertainty estimation is presented. Simulation experiments are conducted to compare the approach with an existing method for probability alignment. Furthermore, an empirical application to labor force estimation based on the German Microcensus is provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:46:08 -0400 2021-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Spatial Dynamic Microsimulations - Jan Pablo Burgard
Linking Data within the CVFS and Beyond (October 13, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85329 85329-21626241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 3: Linking Data within the CVFS and Beyond

Wednesday, October 13, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Emily Treleaven and Adrienne Epstein

This webinar will give an overview of how to link observations across CVFS files, link individuals to households and neighborhoods, and link external data sources to CVFS. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYld-yoqDorGtBK9EJBUYvQIBWBKTJUlhn1

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:10:17 -0400 2021-10-13T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
Introducing Spatial Analysis and Visualization With ICPSR Data (October 19, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85693 85693-21628285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Spatial thinking and geographic analyses are becoming increasingly important in the social sciences, and many ICPSR datasets could be explored in the context of a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis. However, doing so requires some specialized skills and considerations, and educators using ICPSR resources may be interested in introducing their students to GIS analysis, without knowing where to start.

Join us for this webinar to learn more about a new teaching resource that educators can use to demonstrate how relevant ICPSR datasets could be visualized and analyzed spatially using the R programming language. The teaching resource will contain a lesson plan, sample code and examples, and practice exercises.

This webinar is free and open to the public. A live transcript will be available. This webinar will be recorded, and the recording and slides will be sent to all registrants. Zoom FAQs are available at http://myumi.ch/kx2oo.

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Presentation Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:47:23 -0400 2021-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A promotional image for a webinar, "Introducing Spatial Analysis and Visualization With ICPSR Data" featuring a keyboard with a "GIS" key
Impact of response styles on inclusive measurement (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86252 86252-21640716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Impact of response styles on inclusive measurement
Wednesday, October 27, noon to 1:10pm ET via Zoom

Speakers:
Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton
(PhD Candidate, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan)

Sunghee Lee
(Research Associate Professor, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan)

Rachel Davis
(Associate Professor, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina)

Abstracts:

Negated and Polar Opposite Items for Balanced Scale construction: An Empirical Cross-Cultural Assessment

Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton

Acquiescent Response Style (ARS) is a culturally patterned measurement error in surveys that threatens comparisons across groups with different cultural backgrounds potentially undermining inclusivity estimating attitudes and beliefs in a population. Balanced scales blend items written in different directions and are hypothesized as a method for controlling ARS. This study examined the differences in measurement properties between two types of balanced scales. The first balanced scale type included negated items, which were item reversals formed by inserting a negation, such as, “no” and “not.” The second type included polar opposite items, which used antonyms or opposite terms to reverse the item direction (e.g., “unhappy” as the opposite of “satisfied”). Participants were recruited to a Web survey and randomly assigned to (1) unbalanced, (2) negated balanced or (3) polar opposite balanced scales. Participants came from three groups with different ARS tendencies to contrast the effects of scale wording in mitigating ARS across groups and improving measurement across cultural subgroups. These groups were: Non-Hispanic White respondents, Hispanic respondents in Mexico and Hispanic respondents in the US. Both types of balanced scales outperformed unbalanced scales in convergent validity, with higher correlations between scale scores and validation variables for balanced than unbalanced scales. No statistical differences were observed between negated and polar opposite scales in fit indices of factor models, reliability measures or convergent validity for any group. These findings suggest that negated and polar opposite balanced scales are equivalent for ARS control, and that they yield adequate measurement properties for all groups included in the study.

Response Style and Measurement of Satisfaction with Life

Sunghee Lee

Satisfaction with Life (SWL), a five-item scale, is designed to assess global judgment about one’s satisfaction with life as a whole rather than specific domains of life. Popularly used by many organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it has been translated into over 30 languages. However, with its standard version using a 7-point Likert response scale, it is subject to measurement error due to response style and measurement non-comparability across groups associated with systematically different response styles. More importantly, whether and how this is addressed in research may have implications for its inclusivity. This study examines the utility of balancing the SWL scale experimentally with multiple racial/ethnic/linguistic groups in the US: Latinx dominant in English, Latinx dominant in Spanish, non- Latinx Whites, non-Latinx Blacks, non-Latinx Koreans dominant in English and non-Latinx Koreans dominant in Korean. The results suggest the benefit of balancing measurement scales but not for groups that engage in middle response style.

Reducing Acquiescent Response Style with Conversational Interviewing

Rachel Davis

Acquiescent response style (ARS), the tendency for survey respondents to select positive answers such as “Strongly Agree,” is of particular concern for increasing measurement error in surveys with populations who are more likely to acquiesce, such as U.S. Latinx respondents. This study enrolled 891 Latinx telephone survey respondents in an experiment to address two questions: (1) Does administering a questionnaire using conversational interviewing (CI) yield less ARS than standardized interviewing (SI)? (2) Do item-specific (IS) response scales reduce ARS when compared to disagree/agree (DA) response formats? No difference was observed in ARS between the DA and IS response scales. However, CI yielded significantly lower ARS than SI, likely due to the CI interviewers' efforts to clarify questions and help with response mapping. Findings from this study suggest that using CI to administer survey questions may decrease use of ARS and improve data quality among survey respondents who are more likely to engage in ARS.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:06:36 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Finding Available Data Related to Sensitive Topics (October 27, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86731 86731-21635825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Please join us for this webinar to learn about a new digital resource available from ICPSR. This electronic resource will help researchers identify openly available datasets that closely cover topics of restricted-use datasets but do not require IRB approval or a restricted data use agreements.

There are many topics that graduate students and faculty give up on pursuing because they can only find restricted-use datasets. It can be difficult to access restricted-use datasets in a timely fashion.

This resource is a kind of "quick guide" to help researchers pursue the topics they’re interested in, including tricky topics like crime or health. ICPSR has hundreds of datasets that are related to topics that normally have restricted data.

This will benefit researchers who have been frustrated or unsuccessful with the restricted data process but still want to find *some* secondary data that would work with their research interests.

Presented by Brianne Dosch, ICPSR Representative at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

This webinar is free and open to the public. A live transcript will be available. This webinar will be recorded, and the recording and slides will be sent to all registrants. Zoom FAQs are available at http://myumi.ch/kx2oo.

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Presentation Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:51:17 -0400 2021-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation A child uses binoculars in a green field of tall grass in a promotional image for "Finding Available Data Related to Sensitive Topics," a webinar from ICPSR
Rod Little - On the Definition of Response Propensity – MPSM JPSM Seminar Series (November 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88318 88318-21652407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Rod Little is Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, where he also holds appointments in the Department of Statistics and the Institute for Social Research. He has over 250 publications, notably on methods for the analysis of data with missing values and model-based survey inference, and the application of statistics to diverse scientific areas, including medicine, demography, economics, psychiatry, aging and the environment. Little is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2005, Little was awarded the American Statistical Association’s Wilks Medal for research contributions, and he gave the President’s Invited Address at the Joint Statistical Meetings. He was the COPSS Fisher Lecturer at the 2012 Joint Statistics Meetings.

On the Definition of Response Propensity

Nonresponse propensities play a central role in unit nonresponse adjustments from both design and model-based perspectives, but are often not clearly defined because of lack of clarity about the variables on which the propensities are conditioned. I propose a definition of response propensity for the purpose of nonresponse adjustments, where the conditioning is restricted to include the variables measured in the survey as well as design and auxiliary variables measured for respondents and nonrespondents. The proposed definition is justified from both design-based and model-based perspectives. The role of the missing at random assumption is discussed for both perspectives, for cross-sectional surveys and longitudinal surveys with attrition.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:53:30 -0400 2021-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Rod Little - On the Definition of Response Propensity – MPSM JPSM Seminar Series
Representative Research: Assessing Diversity in Online Samples (November 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86292 86292-21640719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Representative Research: Assessing Diversity in Online Samples
Wednesday, November 10, noon to 1:10pm Eastern via Zoom

Speaker: Frances Barlas
Vice President, Research Methods at Ipsos Public Affairs

In 2020, we saw a broader awakening to the continued systemic racism throughout all aspects of our society and heard renewed calls for racial justice. For the survey and market research industries, this has renewed questions about how well our industry does to ensure that our public opinion research captures the full set of diverse voices that make up the United States. These questions were reinforced in the wake of the 2020 election with the scrutiny faced by the polling industry and the role that voters of color played in the election. In this talk, we’ll consider how well online samples represent people of color in the United States. Results from studies that use both KnowledgePanel – a probability-based online panel – and non-probability online samples will be shared. We’ll discuss some strategies for ways to improve our sample quality.

Dr. Frances Barlas is a Senior Vice President and the lead KnowledgePanel Methodologist for Ipsos. She has worked in the survey and market research industries for 20 years. In her current role, she is charged with overseeing and advancing the statistical integrity and operational efficiency of KnowledgePanel, the largest probability-based panel in the US, and other Ipsos research assets. Her research interests focus on survey measurement and online survey data quality. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Temple University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:18:12 -0400 2021-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T13:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion poster
Live podcast: Leading Data Communities - A CESSDA/ICPSR Discussion (December 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89379 89379-21662420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

If you love data, this live podcast is for you! Join CESSDA Director Ron Dekker (Europe) and ICPSR Director Margaret Levenstein (USA), at the helm of two of the world's largest data consortia. Get your questions answered and hear stories of navigating the pandemic, data access, privacy, and more!

Attendance at this live podcast session is free and open to the public. A live transcript will be available. The episode will be recorded and made available to all Data Brunch subscribers and at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRDataBrunch.

Zoom FAQs are available at http://myumi.ch/kx2oo.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:37:55 -0500 2021-12-15T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-15T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Livestream / Virtual Promotional image for ICPSR webinar featuring photographs of live podcast guests
Discussion of High Impact Research Topics in Global Population Research (December 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85339 85339-21626252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 7: Discussion of High Impact Research Topics in Global Population Research
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: SPE Program Team

This webinar will feature investigators discussing high priority topics for new global population health research. Discussion will include the potential of CVFS being used to address these topics, as well as other global population health data resources. We will also discuss the potential of proposals to NIH for funding to launch new research on these topics. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpcO2rrz4vGdH_MismMAIU7j0yKB5qlbuc

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:38:15 -0400 2021-12-15T14:00:00-05:00 2021-12-15T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Nepal mountains
Brian M. Wells and Hani Zainulbhai - Using a Web Diary Survey to Measure Out-of-Home Media Consumption and Engagement (February 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90980 90980-21675125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Brian M. Wells is a Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen where he works on a variety of quantitative projects to evaluate, improve, and expand Nielsen panels. Previously he served as the Data Quality and Survey Methodology Manager for the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) where he evaluated the need for and implemented a new data collection methodology. Brian received his PhD in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan.

Hani Zainulbhai is a Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen and a 2018 MPSM graduate. At Nielsen, she has been involved in developing alternative recruitment methods for the TV audience measurement panel.

Using a Web Diary Survey to Measure Out-of-Home Media Consumption and Engagement

Dimensions of out-of-home (OOH) media measurement rely on human input and cannot be fully captured through passive data collection via smart devices or portable meters. To better understand OOH TV consumption, we designed a web-based diary survey to capture the various components of OOH TV consumption while trying to minimize recall bias, especially for brief, unanticipated viewings. The study consisted of two parts: a Recruitment phase and a Diary phase. During the Recruitment phase, selected panelists from a nationally representative sample completed a short survey and were asked to participate in the 7-day diary. Those who agreed were enrolled in the Diary and were asked to complete a once-daily diary, logging all their OOH activity and TV consumption. The surveys were conducted over four weeks from mid-October to mid-November 2021, with each week having an independent and representative sample covering a different 7-day period. This presentation will provide an overview of the methodology and process used to administer the Recruitment and Diary surveys, including sample design, recruitment procedures, web-based diary survey design, and participation and response rates for each survey. In addition, we will discuss the results of a questionnaire experiment exploring differences between the concepts of attention to and engagement with media. A random half-sample was assigned questions about either “attention” or “engagement” to each program viewed. Within each half-sample, we also randomly assigned each respondent to an ascending or a descending response order condition to observe if there is any primacy effect due to collection in a self-administered mode. Preliminary results show differences in the distributions for attention and engagement implying some differentiation in how respondents perceive these two measures. In addition, the direction of the response order seems to alter the response distribution for attention but not for engagement.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:44:56 -0500 2022-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion Brian M. Wells and Hani Zainulbhai - Using a Web Diary Survey to Measure Out-of-Home Media Consumption and Engagement
Love Data Week (February 14, 2022 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90940 90940-21674899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Data is for everyone! Wait... data are for everyone? Either way, Love Data Week 2022 is about how different folks use data. If you haven't participated before, Love Data Week is the international celebration of data. This year we're focused on the people side of data. What does data look like in different disciplines? How about biases in data... who is "in" the data and who is invisible?

Find data-related events, activities and free training at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRldw2022events.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:20:56 -0500 2022-02-14T00:01:00-05:00 2022-02-14T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Conference / Symposium Love Data Week 2022
Love Data Week (February 15, 2022 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90940 90940-21674900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Data is for everyone! Wait... data are for everyone? Either way, Love Data Week 2022 is about how different folks use data. If you haven't participated before, Love Data Week is the international celebration of data. This year we're focused on the people side of data. What does data look like in different disciplines? How about biases in data... who is "in" the data and who is invisible?

Find data-related events, activities and free training at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRldw2022events.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:20:56 -0500 2022-02-15T00:01:00-05:00 2022-02-15T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Conference / Symposium Love Data Week 2022
Love Data Week (February 16, 2022 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90940 90940-21674901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Data is for everyone! Wait... data are for everyone? Either way, Love Data Week 2022 is about how different folks use data. If you haven't participated before, Love Data Week is the international celebration of data. This year we're focused on the people side of data. What does data look like in different disciplines? How about biases in data... who is "in" the data and who is invisible?

Find data-related events, activities and free training at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRldw2022events.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:20:56 -0500 2022-02-16T00:01:00-05:00 2022-02-16T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Conference / Symposium Love Data Week 2022
CANCELLED - Laura Lindberg - Quality of Abortion Reporting in the US and Pathways to Improvement (February 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91431 91431-21679571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Laura Lindberg
Principal Research Scientist, Guttmacher Institute

Dr. Laura Lindberg is a Principal Research Scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, where she has worked for nearly two decades. As a social demographer, Dr. Lindberg focuses on measuring the trends, determinants and consequences of sexual and reproductive health in the U.S. population and working to improve the quality of survey data on sexual and reproductive behaviors. She currently has two NICHD grants on measurement of core demographic constructs, abortion and contraceptive failure rates. Over the course of her career, she has conducted policy-related research on adolescent sexual behaviors, sex education, adolescent preventive services, unintended pregnancy and contraceptive use. Dr. Lindberg received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University; she earned her MA and PhD in sociology at the University of Michigan, where her favorite class was on survey research methods with Bob Groves.

Quality of Abortion Reporting in the US and Pathways to Improvement

Despite the fact that an estimated one in five pregnancies in the United States end in induced abortion, abortion remains a highly sensitive, stigmatized and thus difficult-to-measure behavior. I will present on a body of recent research designed to help to develop new techniques and improve existing methodologies for measuring abortion reporting. First, I share a series of quantitative analyses to identify the scope and correlates of abortion underreporting for three of the most commonly used national fertility surveys in the United States: the National Survey of Family Growth, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. These analyses informed the development of new question designs were explored in cognitive interviews and experimentally tested and evaluated in a national survey. Abortion underreporting in population surveys has far-reaching implications for research in sexual and reproductive health and maternal and child health.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:50:07 -0500 2022-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion February 16th Seminar Cancelled
Love Data Week (February 17, 2022 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90940 90940-21674902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Data is for everyone! Wait... data are for everyone? Either way, Love Data Week 2022 is about how different folks use data. If you haven't participated before, Love Data Week is the international celebration of data. This year we're focused on the people side of data. What does data look like in different disciplines? How about biases in data... who is "in" the data and who is invisible?

Find data-related events, activities and free training at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRldw2022events.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:20:56 -0500 2022-02-17T00:01:00-05:00 2022-02-17T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Conference / Symposium Love Data Week 2022
Love Data Week (February 18, 2022 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90940 90940-21674903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Data is for everyone! Wait... data are for everyone? Either way, Love Data Week 2022 is about how different folks use data. If you haven't participated before, Love Data Week is the international celebration of data. This year we're focused on the people side of data. What does data look like in different disciplines? How about biases in data... who is "in" the data and who is invisible?

Find data-related events, activities and free training at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRldw2022events.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:20:56 -0500 2022-02-18T00:01:00-05:00 2022-02-18T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Conference / Symposium Love Data Week 2022
Ipek Bilgen and Amelia Burke-Garcia - The Use of Advanced Social Media Targeting Methodology During Recruitment of Hard-to-Reach Audiences (March 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91859 91859-21683564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

The Use of Advanced Social Media Targeting Methodology During Recruitment of Hard-to-Reach Audiences
Ipek Bilgen and Amelia Burke-Garcia

One of the major benefits of social media ad-based survey recruitment is the use of various types of data to target ads to users of these platforms. To target users of social media, researchers can use the basic demographic and geographic that social media platforms currently provide, or they can use enhanced data that can be embedded within the social media platforms supplied by third party providers based on external data sources, e.g., historical purchase data. We will examine whether and how much this enhanced data can impact ad based social media recruitment capabilities to reach niche and hard-to-reach audiences.

To investigate the targeting efficiency, quality, and cost differences among these two approaches that can be used to target audiences within social media platforms, NORC piloted a strategic initiative research study in 2020. A web survey was constructed using existing items from national surveys on individual’s health and online habits, as well as new items related to life changes during the pandemic. Two main audience groups that are generally hard to recruit through probability-based studies were targeted – young adults, ages 18-24, and people with low education (defined as anyone who has completed high school as the highest level of education or lower). Five sets of tailored ads with unique URLs that linked to a web-based survey were designed and launched via Facebook and Instagram. Two sets used basic targeting to recruit the sample and the other three used the enhanced targeting. This brown bag will present the design of the study, our approach to the ads and targeting, and what we learned through our examination of the differences between the samples obtained from basic and advanced targeting on the dimensions of recruited sample composition, survey estimates, and recruitment costs.

Dr. Ipek Bilgen is a Senior Research Methodologist in the Methodology and Quantitative Social Sciences (MQSS) Department at NORC at the University of Chicago. Bilgen is AmeriSpeak Panel’s lead research methodologist. She also directs web and emerging technologies strategic initiative at NORC. She has over a decade of experience in applied survey methods and received both her Ph.D. and M.S. from the Survey Research and Methodology (SRAM) Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Bilgen has published and co-authored articles in Journal of Official Statistics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Survey Practice, Social Currents, Social Science Computer Review, Field Methods, SAGE Research Methods, and Quality and Quantity on issues related to interviewing methodology, web surveys, internet sampling and recruitment approaches, cognition and communication, and measurement error in surveys. Her current research investigates panel recruitment and retention, total survey error sources in probability-based online panels, the use of web and emerging technologies in surveys, and questionnaire design and survey implementation issues. Her research also examines studies related to the use of auxiliary data for improved efficiency in surveys that use address-based sampling (ABS) and active survey recruitment through social media and search engines.

Bilgen is currently serving as Associate Editor of Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ). In the past, she has served as an elected member of American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)’s Executive Council as Membership and Chapter Relations Chair. She has also served on Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR)’s Executive Council as President, Vice President, Conference Chair, and Secretary Treasurer.

Dr. Amelia Burke-Garcia is a seasoned health communications professional with nearly 20 years of experience in health communication program planning, implementation and evaluation, with specific expertise in developing and evaluating digital and social media communication and research. At NORC, she leads the organization's Digital Strategy and Outreach Program Area, where she designs, develops, and implements new digital and mobile data collection methodologies and communication solutions. Most recently, she acted as director for the award-winning How Right Now/Que Hacer Ahora campaign, which is aimed at increasing people’s ability to cope and be resilient amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. She currently leads two grants focused on exploring vaccine hesitancy amongst communities of color which build on her earlier work exploring messages and motivations of vaccine hesitant or refusing social media influencers (findings from which were published in Vaccine in 2020). Over the course of her career, Dr. Burke-Garcia has spearheaded some of the most innovative communication programs and studies on a variety of health topics including designing a targeted social media intervention with mommy bloggers to help social media users lower their risk for breast cancer and leveraging MeetUp groups and the Waze mobile application to move people to action around flu vaccination and HIV testing, respectively. She is the author of the book entitled, Influencing Health: A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Online Influencers and has been named to VeryWellHealth.com’s list of 10 Modern Female Innovators Shaking Up Health Care. She holds a PhD in Communication from George Mason University, a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University, and a joint honours Bachelor’s degree in International Development Studies and Humanistic Studies from McGill University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:19:11 -0500 2022-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Lecture / Discussion The Use of Advanced Social Media Targeting Methodology During Recruitment of Hard-to-Reach Audiences
Fourth Annual Likert Workshop - Intersections between Cross-Cultural Survey Research and Cross-Cultural Psychology (March 11, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92407 92407-21691038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Fourth Annual Likert Workshop
Intersections between Cross-Cultural Survey Research and Cross-Cultural Psychology

ONLINE REGISTRATION REQUIRED (Free Virtual Workshop)

 11:00-11:10 - Welcome. Fred Conrad, Director, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan.

 11:10-11:30 - Introduction. Tim Johnson, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago, Senior Fellow, Center of Excellence in Survey Research, NORC.

 11:30-12:00 - Moving a cross-national general survey from face-to-face to self-completion data collection: a discussion of the cross-national and cross-cultural challenges. Rory Fitzgerald, Director, European Social Survey, City, University of London, U.K.

 12:00-12:10 - Break

 12:10-12:40 - Assessing measurement invariance: Can we make a dead-end road into a highway? Jan Cieciuch, Professor, Psychology, Cardinal Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland, URPP Social Networks, University of Zurich, Switzerland Eldad Davidov, Professor, Sociology, University of Cologne, Germany, Sociology and URPP Social Networks, University of Zurich, Switzerland Peter Schmidt, Professor Emeritus, ZEU, University of Giessen, Germany, Psychosomatics, University of Mainz, Germany Daniel Seddig, Professor, Sociology, University of Passau, Germany, University of Cologne, Germany.

 12:40-1:10 - Culture, language and measurement of health. Sunghee Lee, Research Associate Professor, Program in Survey and Data Science, University of Michigan.

 1:10-1:20 - Break

 1:20-1:50 - Voicing politics: How language shapes public opinion. Efrén O. Pérez, Professor, Political Science and Psychology, Director, Race, Ethnicity, Politics & Society (REPS) Lab, UCLA.

 1:50-2:20 - What may this mean? How cultural mindsets influence conversational inferences. Daphna Oyserman, Dean’s Professor, Psychology, University of Southern California, Norbert Schwarz, Provost Professor, Psychology and Marketing, University of Southern California.

 2:20-2:30 - Closing Discussion, Q&A.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:54:13 -0500 2022-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Fourth Annual Likert Workshop
How Invalid and Mischievous Survey Responses Bias Estimates of LGBQ-heterosexual Youth Risk Disparities (March 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92659 92659-21694330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Inclusive Research Matters
How Invalid and Mischievous Survey Responses Bias Estimates of LGBQ-heterosexual Youth Risk Disparities
March 16, 2022, noon ET via Zoom

Speaker: Joseph Cimpian, Associate Professor of Economics and Education Policy at NYU Steinhardt

Abstract: Survey respondents don’t always take surveys as seriously as researchers would like. Sometimes, they provide intentionally untrue, extreme responses. Other times, they skip items or fill in random patterns. We might be tempted to think this just introduces some random error into the estimates, but these responses can have undue effects on estimates of the wellbeing and risk of minoritized populations, such as racially and sexually minoritized youth. Over the past decade, and with a focus on youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning (LGBQ), a variety of data-validity screening techniques have been employed in attempts to scrub datasets of “mischievous responders,” youths who systematically provide extreme and untrue responses to outcome items and who tend to falsely report being LGBQ. In this talk, I discuss how mischievous responders—and invalid responses, more generally—can perpetuate narratives of heightened risk, rather than those of greater resilience in the face of obstacles, for LGBQ youth. The talk will review several recent and ongoing studies using pre-registration and replication to test how invalid data affect LGBQ-heterosexual disparities on a wide range of outcomes. Key findings include: (1) potentially invalid responders inflate some (but not all) LGBQ–heterosexual disparities; (2) this is true more among boys than girls; (3) low-incidence outcomes (e.g., heroin use) are particularly susceptible to bias; and (4) the method for detection and mitigation affects the estimates. Yet, these methods do not solve all data validity concerns, and their limitations are discussed. While the empirical focus of this talk is on LGBQ youth, the issues and methods discussed are relevant to research on other minoritized groups and youth generally, and speak to survey development, methodology, and the robustness and transparency of research.

Biography: Joseph Cimpian, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Economics and Education Policy at NYU Steinhardt and associated faculty at NYU Wagner. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Stanford University. His research focuses on the use and development of novel and rigorous methods to study equity and policy, particularly concerning language minorities, gender, and sexual minorities. One line of his research examines how “mischievous responders”—youth who provide extreme and untrue responses—can bias estimates of majority-minority group disparities. Some of his other work examines how beliefs about gender and math ability contribute to gender gaps in STEM. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Cimpian was an Associate Professor and College of Education Distinguished Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work has been funded by the Spencer Foundation, the AERA Grants Board, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute of Education Sciences. His research has been published in some of the top journals in education, psychology, health, and policy, and has been featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and Brookings, among other outlets. He presented his work on English learner reclassification policies at a U.S. Congressional briefing and for the Council of Chief State School Officers. At NYU, he teaches intermediate and advanced graduate courses on causal inference. He is currently an Editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and is on the editorial boards of several other education and psychology journals.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Mar 2022 11:57:41 -0500 2022-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
PDHP Workshop: Tools For Reproducible Research (March 28, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93103 93103-21700723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Despite the recent increase in the amount and complexity of data available, the social sciences are nonetheless facing a reproducibility crisis as previous findings fail to replicate. Both of these trends highlight the need for improving reproducibility and collaboration in the social sciences, an increasingly important topic that is rarely covered in traditional academic training.

Please join as we conduct a new PDHP workshop titled “Tools For Reproducible Research,” presented by Alexandru Cernat (associate professor of social statistics, University of Manchester). This half-day workshop will cover the main concepts of reproducible research as well as best practices in the field (including meta-analyses, pre-registration, and sensitivity analysis), while mixing both lecture and practical application. Attendees will also get hands-on practice with state-of-the-art tools of reproducible research, such as research project management using R/RStudio and version control using Github.

Topics covered:
-Challenges to social research such as publication bias and specification bias
-Solutions to the reproducibility crisis: meta-analyses, pre-registration, and sensitivity analysis
-Tools for better research workflows: project management (via Rprojects and the renv package), version control via Github, and dynamic documents (via git, usethis and Rmarkdown)

As always, this workshop is free of cost and open to the public. Please RSVP for this event: https://pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Mar 2022 08:56:56 -0500 2022-03-28T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar flyer