Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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
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
MIW Info Session (September 8, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85757 85757-21628681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Please feel free to drop-in on Zoom to have any of your MIW questions answered from 12-12:30 on September 15th and 17th! MIW is open to all 3rd and 4th year students of any major and/or college.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92634096629

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Meeting Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:42:35 -0400 2021-09-08T17:30:00-04:00 2021-09-08T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Meeting MIW Mall
MIW Info Session (September 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85757 85757-21634179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 10, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Please feel free to drop-in on Zoom to have any of your MIW questions answered from 12-12:30 on September 15th and 17th! MIW is open to all 3rd and 4th year students of any major and/or college.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92634096629

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Meeting Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:42:35 -0400 2021-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-10T12:30:00-04:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting MIW Mall
MIW Info Session (September 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85757 85757-21634180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Please feel free to drop-in on Zoom to have any of your MIW questions answered from 12-12:30 on September 15th and 17th! MIW is open to all 3rd and 4th year students of any major and/or college.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92634096629

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Meeting Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:42:35 -0400 2021-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Meeting MIW Mall
MIW Info Session (September 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85757 85757-21634181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Please feel free to drop-in on Zoom to have any of your MIW questions answered from 12-12:30 on September 15th and 17th! MIW is open to all 3rd and 4th year students of any major and/or college.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92634096629

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Meeting Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:42:35 -0400 2021-09-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Meeting MIW Mall
Professor Ken Kollman, The Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professorship in Political Science, Inaugural Lecture (September 21, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84260 84260-21620826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Please join us for an in person lecture to celebrate Professor Ken Kollman at Weiser Hall on Tuesday, September 21st at 4:00 p.m.

Many people have intense worries about the future of American democracy. They should worry less about the long term survivability of democracy, and just like parties and politicians, focus more on winning the next round of elections. The partisanship that appears to be hardening in our society is actually a source of stability and predictability, and it gives people a stake in election outcomes. The major parties, contrary to popular belief, remain moderating forces. Granted, norms and electoral institutions are under threat but they are more robust than many people think, and if people focus on winning elections and adopting policies, and worry less about what damage others might do, American democracy will survive just fine.

If you are unable to join us in person, please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Sep 2021 10:20:46 -0400 2021-09-21T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion American Democracy
Gender, Social Recognition, and Political Influence (October 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87817 87817-21647037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Speaker: Cesi Cruz (UCLA)
Join via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91971833625

What determines women’s political influence? While the literature on political engagement focuses on individual traits, attitudes, and participation, we argue that how these factors translate to political influence is fundamentally a social process that requires recognition from the broader community, with important implications for understanding women’s political engagement. Using new data on networks of political influence in Philippine villages, we show that even after controlling for socioeconomic status or political participation, women are still markedly less likely to be recognized as influential. Furthermore, we show that engagement in politics through traditional means–running for office, participating in councils, or joining parties–are only associated with political influence for men. The determinants of influence are more complex for women: embeddedness in the community and participation in community activities are more important than traditional modes of political participation.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:17:37 -0400 2021-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Dark blue background with text "Interdisciplinary Workshops on Politics and Policy" and Center for Political Studies logo.
Trust in Religious Leaders & Voluntary Compliance: Lessons from Social Distancing during COVID-19 in Central Asia (October 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87821 87821-21647040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Speaker: Pauline Jones (University of Michigan)
Join via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92005095888


Abstract:
What is the relationship between trust in religious leaders and voluntary compliance with policies that are costly to the individual? Religious leaders have the moral authority to affect individuals’ willingness to adopt pro-social behaviors across many societies. Less clear is whether that influence will be positive or negative. It cannot be assumed ex ante that religious leaders will uniformly support social distancing guidelines both because they may be reluctant to discourage congregants from attending services and because their leadership within a country is often decentralized. We investigate how trust in religious leaders affects compliance in countries where religious authority is centralized and state aligned. We argue that, under these conditions, greater trust in religious leaders will be associated with more voluntary compliance, but that this effect will be limited to religious celebrations and rituals. Using novel data from surveys fielded in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find support for both hypotheses but only in Kazakhstan, where religious leaders consistently offered adherents substitutes that enabled them to practice their faith while social distancing. The influence of religious leaders on voluntary compliance, therefore, may depend as much on the content of the message as it does on the source.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:16:40 -0400 2021-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Dark blue background with text "Interdisciplinary Workshops on Politics and Policy" and Center for Political Studies logo.
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Politics and Policy (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87822 87822-21647042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Speaker: Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
Join via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91429736051

Interdisciplinary Workshops on Politics and Policy are regular seminars hosted by the Center for Political Studies. Speakers present current research on a wide range of topics. See the full schedule of talks at https://cps.isr.umich.edu/events/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:24:50 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Dark blue background with text "Interdisciplinary Workshops on Politics and Policy" and Center for Political Studies logo.
Detecting white supremacist speech on social media (November 3, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88358 88358-21653508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Detecting white supremacist speech on social media
Wednesday, November 3, 1pm ET

Social media have been repeatedly shown to harbor white supremacist networks, enabling far-right extremists to find one another, recruit and radicalize new members, and normalize their hate. In order to address the problem of white supremacist speech on social media, platforms must first be able to identify it.

In this talk, Libby Hemphill will present research to understand what white supremacist speech looks like, especially how it’s different from general or commonplace speech, and to determine whether white supremacists try to adapt to avoid detection from social media platforms’ current content moderation systems.

ISR Insights Speaker Series is a series focusing on the research happening at ISR.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:25:09 -0400 2021-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
New Deal policy and the racialization of homeownership (January 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90734 90734-21673479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

New Deal policy and the racialization of homeownership
by Jacob William Faber, New York University

Bio:
Jacob William Faber is an Associate Professor at New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and holds a joint appointment in NYU's Sociology Department. His research and teaching focuses on spatial inequality. He leverages observational and experimental methods to study the mechanisms responsible for sorting individuals across space and how the distribution of people by race and class interacts with political, social, and ecological systems to create and sustain economic disparities. While there is a rich literature exploring the geography of opportunity, there remain many unsettled questions about the causes of segregation and its effects on the residents of urban ghettos, wealthy suburbs, and the diverse set of places in between.

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 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:38:39 -0500 2022-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
Water Ties as Political Methodology in the Everglades and Beyond (January 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89829 89829-21665906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Water Ties as Political Methodology in the Everglades and Beyond
Jessica Cattelino, UCLA

Monday, Jan 24, Open Talks 12-1pm, Grad Workshops 1-3pm, via Zoom

Meeting ID: 95385019774
Meeting Password: 520095
Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95385019774?pwd=N0I1THZGYlQwZi9UT2Q5dFlXSEttdz09

Abstract:
Water connects and obligates people to one another and to their environments in this time of ecological reckoning. Water ties, in this presentation, is an analytical term for, first, the ways that people are tied to water and are obliged to care for it, and second, the consequential and patterned ways that people are tied to one another through their relationships to water. In the Florida Everglades, where the world’s largest wetlands restoration project is underway and where pitched battles are fought over the values of agricultural production (especially sugarcane) and ecosystem health, water ties are the underappreciated keys to achieving flourishing with contested waters. Water ties are also political methodology: methodology for ecosystem governance, for Seminole sovereignty, and for ethnography.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:30:22 -0500 2022-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
MIW Information Session (January 25, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91218 91218-21677399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Michigan in Washington virtual information session.

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Meeting Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:52:20 -0500 2022-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 2022-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea (January 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89830 89830-21665907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
Jatin Dua, University of Michigan, Anthropology

Monday, Jan. 31, The Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95385019774?pwd=N0I1THZGYlQwZi9UT2Q5dFlXSEttdz09
Passcode: 520095
Meeting ID: 953 8501 9774

Abstract:
Shipping plays a crucial role in global circulation and geopolitical imaginaries of mobility. Approximately 90% of the world’s imports and exports travel by sea on some 93,000 merchant vessels, operated by 1.25 million seafarers, carrying almost six billion tons of cargo. This global circulation, however, is dependent on navigating a variety of chokepoints—narrow straits, ports, and other geographic locales that ‘choke’ the seemingly frictionless flow of global shipping. Focusing on ports and shipping lanes in the Bab-el-Mandeb, a narrow strait that separates Africa from Asia and connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, this talk explores the generative power of chokepoints. Beyond the problem of lag, I argue for understanding chokepoint politics—a mode of politics and place-making built on channeling circulation.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:01:13 -0500 2022-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
Distinguished University Professorship Lecture Series (February 8, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91022 91022-21675546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University and Development Events

Sponsored by the Provost and Rackham Dean’s Office, this event features three Distinguished University Professors speaking on their professional and scholarly experiences. Each concise lecture will be followed by a brief Q & A.

Program:
“Soil Microbial Communities and the Future Functioning of Terrestrial Ecosystems” by Donald R. Zak (Alexander H. Smith Distinguished University Professor of Ecology
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability)

“The Public Value of Science in an Era of Misinformation” by Arthur Lupia (Gerald R. Ford Distinguished University Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts)

“Moving Outside the Fence: Achieving Sustainable and Equitable Access to High Quality Water Services" by Nancy G. Love (JoAnn Silverstein Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering, Borchardt and Glysson Collegiate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering)

In person and online (myumi.ch/lbDUP).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:49:57 -0500 2022-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2022-02-08T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University and Development Events Lecture / Discussion Image contains photos of the three professors presenting lectures and date and time details.
MIW Information Session (February 10, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91218 91218-21677400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Michigan in Washington virtual information session.

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Meeting Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:52:20 -0500 2022-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 2022-02-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Sensing Water in Mexico City (February 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89832 89832-21665909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Sensing Water in Mexico City
Branko Kerkez and Elizabeth F.S. Roberts, University of Michigan

Monday, Feb. 14, The Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.
Zoom only

Abstract:
A growing number of the world’s urban households only receive water intermittently. In this paper we describe our multi-disciplinary project, bringing together engineers and ethnographers, that seeks to sense the effects of intermittency in working class neighborhoods in Mexico City. We installed newly engineered water sensors in participant households, allowing us to apprehend previously unseen dynamics, for example that weekly versus daily intermittency has substantial effects on water quality. Through ethnographic data from these same households we found that in regards to the constant labor of managing water, daily versus weekly intermittency also has complex and counterintuitive effects on domestic life. Our ethnographic/engineering collaboration allows us to document complex water phenomena, that we could not have seen on our own, and by sensing how these complex water dynamics produce different household water ways we have more of a sense of what the future might hold.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:13:26 -0500 2022-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
LSA Honors Stowe Lecture Series Presents: Jane Coaston (February 15, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91420 91420-21679467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Please join the LSA Honors Program on Tuesday, February 15 at 5:00 pm (EST) in the Rackham Amphitheater.



Polarized America: Lessons from Sports

The polarization of American politics isn't new (remember the Civil War?), but the ways in which our culture, media, and perceptions of one another have become increasingly siloed is. Despite an increasingly national (and international) culture, it's easy to stay within our own political, social, economic and cultural box. But sports can cut across siloes in unexpected ways (while creating new ones). So what can sports teach us about how to depolarize America -- or, does sports tell us that depolarization is not an option? New York Times podcast host, writer and Very Online sports person Jane Coaston will try to explain.

Jane Coaston is the host of "The Argument." Previously, she was a senior politics reporter at Vox with a focus on conservatism and the GOP. Her work has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and in National Review, the Washington Post, the Ringer, and ESPN Magazine, among others. In addition, she is a former resident fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. She attended the University of Michigan and lives in Washington, D.C.



Interested in attending in person? No registration is needed.

Rackham Amphitheater, 4th floor:

915 E Washington St

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Covid Policies:

All guests must remain masked throughout the event and complete a ResponsiBLUE health screening questionnaire in order to attend. You will be asked to show proof of survey completion, which will appear as a green check mark at the end of the questionnaire.


More information about directions, parking, the ResponsiBLUE questionnaire, and live streaming can be found here:
https://lsa.umich.edu/honors/news-events/all-events/StoweLectureSeries.html

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:04:55 -0500 2022-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 2022-02-15T18:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) LSA Honors Program Lecture / Discussion Stowe Lecture Series with Jane Coaston Poster
MIW Application Deadline-February 18, 2022 (February 18, 2022 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90888 90888-21674553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Michigan in Washington application deadline for Fall 2022 and early admission Winter 2023. Applications are available on M-Compass.

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Other Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:40:38 -0500 2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Other
Thresholds: Regulating Risk and Water Contamination in Diné Communities (March 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89833 89833-21665910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Thresholds: Regulating Risk and Water Contamination in Diné Communities
Teresa Montoya, University of Chicago

Monday, Mar. 7, The Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm. All parts via Zoom.

Abstract:
On July 16, 1979, one of the uranium mill tailings disposal ponds at the United Nuclear Corporation facility near Church Rock, NM failed. The ruptured mill earth dam released approximately 1100 tons of radioactive solid mill waste and 95 million gallons of acidic mine water into the streams and watersheds of nearby Diné (Navajo) communities. This disaster remains the largest singular release of radioactive material in U.S. history. In the spill’s aftermath—decades later and several miles downstream—I have worked alongside Diné grassroots coalitions on the Navajo Nation in their efforts to confront various forms of water contamination from this toxic disaster. Drawing upon ethnographic and archival material, I explore the various regulatory frameworks through which radioactive exposure is legible and by extension, the legal and political avenues that are made possible or denied. Through these activities, I analyze discourses of risk management, regulatory jurisdiction, and chronic exposure by several state agencies and public officials in their response to community concerns of unsafe water. In doing so, I theorize the arbitrary thresholds of toxicity within larger racialized debates over tribal sovereignty, public health disparity, and environmental justice for Diné communities today.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Wed, 02 Mar 2022 11:26:04 -0500 2022-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-07T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
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
Good Bureaucrats and God: Ethical Labor in an Irrigation Bureaucracy (March 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89834 89834-21665912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Good Bureaucrats and God: Ethical Labor in an Irrigation Bureaucracy
Maira Hayat, Notre Dame University

Monday, Mar. 14 via Zoom: Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.

Abstract:
Bureaucracies tend to feature in political and social theory as sites of structural violence, patriarchy, sovereign excess, or foils to ethical enterprise. This talk, however, argues for the unique importance of studying bureaucracy as a site of ethical laboring. Tracing the specific, surprising and sophisticated ways in which God participates in everyday bureaucratic practice in an Irrigation Department in Pakistan, it shows how bureaucrats’ attempts to be “good Muslims” can produce “good bureaucrats.” The yield is a deeper understanding of how state officials experience and navigate the pull of the ‘private’ in everyday ‘public’ waterswork, and how this in turn determines the service they provide. In foregrounding ethical laboring, the talk brings together the anthropology of bureaucracy, ethics, and secularity towards newer configurations.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:16:28 -0500 2022-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
Detroit River Story Lab: Community Narratives and Carbon Economies (March 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89836 89836-21665914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Detroit River Story Lab: Community Narratives and Carbon Economies
Rebecca Hardin and David Porter, University of Michigan

Monday, Mar. 28, Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.
This event will be held via Zoom.

Abstract:
U-M's Detroit River Story Lab is comprised of interdisciplinary faculty, partnering with a wide array of Michigan based organizations in efforts to reconnect residents with the Detroit River. The Story Lab uses the term “narrative infrastructure” to refer both to the fabric of shared stories that binds a given community together and the pipelines and platforms by which these stories are circulated and elevated. For decades, the needs of Detroit riverside communities’ have been framed in terms of physical infrastructure (transportation, utilities, etc). Today, community leaders and scholars alike have recognized how the arts, civic life, local journalism, and public history are also critical to social cohesion and vitality. Alongside Detroit's legacies of inequity due to pollution, the privatization of shorelands, the bulldozing of neighborhoods, and mass-incarceration, has come the loss of sustaining stories about the Detroit River--or resident’s stories for framing sustainability for the city's and region's future. Learning from local residents who do (or who seek to) engage with its waters, the Story Lab partnership seeks to strengthen the narrative infrastructure of the Detroit River corridor with respect to its indigenous sacred sites, roles in the Underground Railroad, and long histories of water activism, among other themes. We work together through independent media, software platforms, innovative secondary and higher education curricula, and interpretive programing in public spaces. We are also developing youth participatory research trainings in river heritage, ecosystem regeneration, carbon accounting and equitable landscape design, to encourage direct personal ties with the river as well as community identification and advocacy along the corridor. Drawing from pathbreaking recent scholarship on Detroit's history and collaborative sustainability science, we work toward possible narrative transformation from the one and only "Motor City” to a preeminent "River City" worthy of emulation as an international and intercultural confluence of innovations in climate change adaptation, active learning and environmental and social justice.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:01:30 -0400 2022-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
Citizen Responses to Poor Quality Urban Water Service: A Political Economy Approach (April 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89840 89840-21665953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Citizen Responses to Poor Quality Urban Water Service: A Political Economy Approach
Alyssa Huberts, Harvard University

Monday, Apr. 4, Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.
In-person in ISR-Thompson 6050
Presentations will also be available online via Zoom

Abstract:
How do citizens respond to intermittent or unreliable water? In classic models of electoral accountability, urban residents that experience low quality services will punish local officials at the polls. Using the case of Mexico City, I show how a range of intervening factors – including a decentralized structure for water provision, a lack of clarity for "who is to blame", and citizens' own investments in household storage capacity – significantly complicate the link between the provision of high quality services and electoral payoffs. I also show how a dynamic set of interactions – including 311 requests, Twitter shaming, and even small-scale street blockades – create incentives for politicians to focus on "firefighting" problems with the water grid, rather than investing in longer term changes.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:35:09 -0400 2022-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (May 19, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 19, 2022 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-05-19T15:00:00-04:00 2022-05-19T16:00:00-04:00 Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (May 19, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95207 95207-21788994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 19, 2022 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing

Open for registration!

June 20-30, 2022
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
M-F

This course will focus on semi-structured, or in-depth, interviewing, with a brief introduction to other qualitative methods, including observation. Semi-structured interviewing is often most helpful in understanding complex social processes. We will examine the goals, assumptions, process, and uses of interviewing and compare these methods to other related qualitative and quantitative methods in order to develop research designs appropriate to research goals. The course will cover all aspects of interviewing, including how to decide who to interview, how to ask good interview questions, and how to conduct successful interviews. Students will conduct interviews, and discuss the process and outcome of those interviews. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology, particularly through discussion of some of the critiques of these methods.

Course Hour: 1.5

Instructor: Nancy Riley

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:20:57 -0400 2022-05-19T17:00:00-04:00 2022-05-19T18:00:00-04:00 Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 6, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 6, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-06-06T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-06T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 7, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-06-07T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-07T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 8, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-06-08T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 9, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 9, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-06-09T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-09T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 10, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 10, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-06-10T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Introduction to Focus Group Interviewing Research Methods - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95204 95204-21788973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 13, 2022 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Focus Group Interviewing Research Methods

Course open for registration!

June 13-14, 2022
9:00am-4:00pm EST
M/T

This course introduces the skills needed to conduct focus group interviews. Students will learn about the critical components of successful focus group research. They will develop a plan for a focus group study and then practice key skills. Attention will be placed on recent developments in conducting virtual focus groups via Zoom. This course will be particularly applicable for those conducting focus group research in academic, non-profit, and government settings.

The course will cover these skills:
- Conducting in-person and virtual focus groups
- How to plan and design a focus group study
- Identifying information-rich participants and getting them to show up
- Beginning the focus group – the crucial first few minutes and moderating techniques
- Developing questions—Characteristics of good focus group questions
- Analyzing—Options for analysis

Why Take This Course?
Focus groups are used to understand issues, pilot test ideas, and evaluate programs. They also provide great insight when used in combination with surveys. Focus groups have been used to help design surveys, to pilot test surveys, and to understand survey findings. Take this course if you want to learn more about how focus groups might add to your research toolbox.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Richard Krueger

Prerequisite: An introductory course in research methods or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:37 -0400 2022-06-13T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-13T16:00:00-04:00 Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Focus Group Interviewing Research Methods
Introduction to Survey Methodology - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95205 95205-21788975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 13, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Survey Methodology

Open for registration!

June 13-17, 2022
9:00am-12:00pm EST
M-F

This course covers the basic principles of survey design and methods and introduces the necessary components of a good quality survey. The course employs the Total Survey Error framework to discuss sampling frames and designs, modes of data collection and their effects on survey errors, the cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions and their impact on questionnaire design, pretesting methods and post-data collection processing. The goal of the course is to give an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Emilia Peytcheva, Andy Peytchev

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:18:11 -0400 2022-06-13T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Survey Methodology
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 13, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 13, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-06-13T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Introduction to Focus Group Interviewing Research Methods - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 14, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95204 95204-21788974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Focus Group Interviewing Research Methods

Course open for registration!

June 13-14, 2022
9:00am-4:00pm EST
M/T

This course introduces the skills needed to conduct focus group interviews. Students will learn about the critical components of successful focus group research. They will develop a plan for a focus group study and then practice key skills. Attention will be placed on recent developments in conducting virtual focus groups via Zoom. This course will be particularly applicable for those conducting focus group research in academic, non-profit, and government settings.

The course will cover these skills:
- Conducting in-person and virtual focus groups
- How to plan and design a focus group study
- Identifying information-rich participants and getting them to show up
- Beginning the focus group – the crucial first few minutes and moderating techniques
- Developing questions—Characteristics of good focus group questions
- Analyzing—Options for analysis

Why Take This Course?
Focus groups are used to understand issues, pilot test ideas, and evaluate programs. They also provide great insight when used in combination with surveys. Focus groups have been used to help design surveys, to pilot test surveys, and to understand survey findings. Take this course if you want to learn more about how focus groups might add to your research toolbox.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Richard Krueger

Prerequisite: An introductory course in research methods or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:37 -0400 2022-06-14T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-14T16:00:00-04:00 Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Focus Group Interviewing Research Methods
Introduction to Survey Methodology - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 14, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95205 95205-21788976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Survey Methodology

Open for registration!

June 13-17, 2022
9:00am-12:00pm EST
M-F

This course covers the basic principles of survey design and methods and introduces the necessary components of a good quality survey. The course employs the Total Survey Error framework to discuss sampling frames and designs, modes of data collection and their effects on survey errors, the cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions and their impact on questionnaire design, pretesting methods and post-data collection processing. The goal of the course is to give an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Emilia Peytcheva, Andy Peytchev

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:18:11 -0400 2022-06-14T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-14T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Survey Methodology
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-06-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Introduction to Survey Methodology - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 15, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95205 95205-21788977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Survey Methodology

Open for registration!

June 13-17, 2022
9:00am-12:00pm EST
M-F

This course covers the basic principles of survey design and methods and introduces the necessary components of a good quality survey. The course employs the Total Survey Error framework to discuss sampling frames and designs, modes of data collection and their effects on survey errors, the cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions and their impact on questionnaire design, pretesting methods and post-data collection processing. The goal of the course is to give an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Emilia Peytcheva, Andy Peytchev

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:18:11 -0400 2022-06-15T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-15T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Survey Methodology
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-06-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-15T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Introduction to Survey Methodology - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 16, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95205 95205-21788978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 16, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Survey Methodology

Open for registration!

June 13-17, 2022
9:00am-12:00pm EST
M-F

This course covers the basic principles of survey design and methods and introduces the necessary components of a good quality survey. The course employs the Total Survey Error framework to discuss sampling frames and designs, modes of data collection and their effects on survey errors, the cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions and their impact on questionnaire design, pretesting methods and post-data collection processing. The goal of the course is to give an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Emilia Peytcheva, Andy Peytchev

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:18:11 -0400 2022-06-16T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-16T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Survey Methodology
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 16, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 16, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-06-16T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-16T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Introduction to Survey Methodology - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 17, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95205 95205-21788979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 17, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Survey Methodology

Open for registration!

June 13-17, 2022
9:00am-12:00pm EST
M-F

This course covers the basic principles of survey design and methods and introduces the necessary components of a good quality survey. The course employs the Total Survey Error framework to discuss sampling frames and designs, modes of data collection and their effects on survey errors, the cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions and their impact on questionnaire design, pretesting methods and post-data collection processing. The goal of the course is to give an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Emilia Peytcheva, Andy Peytchev

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:18:11 -0400 2022-06-17T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Survey Methodology
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 17, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 17, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-06-17T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Total Data Quality-Part 1 - Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 20, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95448 95448-21789936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 20, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Total Data Quality-Part 1

Webinar open for registration!

June 20, 2022
9:00am-1:30pm
M

This is the first of two webinars that will introduce participants to a general framework for evaluating and maximizing data quality when working with data from a variety of different study designs. In this first webinar, we will introduce a general framework for evaluating total data quality (TDQ), considering concepts related to sampling, nonresponse, measurement, processing, and data analysis. We will then discuss how to apply this framework to different types of data sources, including designed data (such as surveys) and found / organic data (which arise following some organic process, e.g., consumer transactions), focusing on various metrics for evaluating total data quality.

Not for academic credit workshop.

Instructors: Brady T. West, James Wagner, Trent Buskirk & Jinseok Kim

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 12:01:18 -0400 2022-06-20T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Writing Questions for Surveys - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 20, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95206 95206-21788980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 20, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Writing Questions for Surveys

Open for registration!

June 20-22, 2022
9:00am-2:30pm EST
M-W

Course Objectives
- Introduce a structural analysis of parts of a survey question
- Introduce cognitive interviewing as a method for testing survey questions
- Describe guidelines for diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing new survey questions
- Focus on the structure and wording of survey questions, whether for interviewer-administered or self- administered instruments
- Provide an opportunity to apply the guidelines and principles during in-class exercises
- Focus on improving individual questions and sets of questions.
- Summarize research that underlies key decisions in writing survey questions.

Description
This workshop distills research about survey questions to principles that can be applied to write survey questions that are clear and obtain reliable answers. The workshop provides students with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and in writing their own survey questions. Sessions combine lecture with group exercises and discussion. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and illustrates how to revise troubled questions. Assignments require that students analyze problematic questions, revise them, and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes, evaluations, and internal
states).

Who Should Attend
Individuals who will be writing or reviewing survey questions or survey instruments or analyzing survey data. This course gives practical guidance to those who have written survey questions but who are not familiar with research on question design, those who are just beginning to design survey instruments, and those who use survey data but do not themselves design survey instruments.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Nora Cate Schaeffer

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:19:46 -0400 2022-06-20T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Writing Questions for Surveys
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-06-20T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 20, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95207 95207-21788983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 20, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing

Open for registration!

June 20-30, 2022
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
M-F

This course will focus on semi-structured, or in-depth, interviewing, with a brief introduction to other qualitative methods, including observation. Semi-structured interviewing is often most helpful in understanding complex social processes. We will examine the goals, assumptions, process, and uses of interviewing and compare these methods to other related qualitative and quantitative methods in order to develop research designs appropriate to research goals. The course will cover all aspects of interviewing, including how to decide who to interview, how to ask good interview questions, and how to conduct successful interviews. Students will conduct interviews, and discuss the process and outcome of those interviews. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology, particularly through discussion of some of the critiques of these methods.

Course Hour: 1.5

Instructor: Nancy Riley

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:20:57 -0400 2022-06-20T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-20T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing
Writing Questions for Surveys - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 21, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95206 95206-21788981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Writing Questions for Surveys

Open for registration!

June 20-22, 2022
9:00am-2:30pm EST
M-W

Course Objectives
- Introduce a structural analysis of parts of a survey question
- Introduce cognitive interviewing as a method for testing survey questions
- Describe guidelines for diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing new survey questions
- Focus on the structure and wording of survey questions, whether for interviewer-administered or self- administered instruments
- Provide an opportunity to apply the guidelines and principles during in-class exercises
- Focus on improving individual questions and sets of questions.
- Summarize research that underlies key decisions in writing survey questions.

Description
This workshop distills research about survey questions to principles that can be applied to write survey questions that are clear and obtain reliable answers. The workshop provides students with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and in writing their own survey questions. Sessions combine lecture with group exercises and discussion. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and illustrates how to revise troubled questions. Assignments require that students analyze problematic questions, revise them, and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes, evaluations, and internal
states).

Who Should Attend
Individuals who will be writing or reviewing survey questions or survey instruments or analyzing survey data. This course gives practical guidance to those who have written survey questions but who are not familiar with research on question design, those who are just beginning to design survey instruments, and those who use survey data but do not themselves design survey instruments.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Nora Cate Schaeffer

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:19:46 -0400 2022-06-21T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-21T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Writing Questions for Surveys
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788932@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-06-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-21T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 21, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95207 95207-21788984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing

Open for registration!

June 20-30, 2022
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
M-F

This course will focus on semi-structured, or in-depth, interviewing, with a brief introduction to other qualitative methods, including observation. Semi-structured interviewing is often most helpful in understanding complex social processes. We will examine the goals, assumptions, process, and uses of interviewing and compare these methods to other related qualitative and quantitative methods in order to develop research designs appropriate to research goals. The course will cover all aspects of interviewing, including how to decide who to interview, how to ask good interview questions, and how to conduct successful interviews. Students will conduct interviews, and discuss the process and outcome of those interviews. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology, particularly through discussion of some of the critiques of these methods.

Course Hour: 1.5

Instructor: Nancy Riley

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:20:57 -0400 2022-06-21T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-21T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing
Total Data Quality-Part 2 - Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 22, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95449 95449-21789937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Total Data Quality-Part 2

Webinar open for registration!

June 22, 2022
9:00am-1:30pm
W

This is the second of two webinars on the total data quality framework. In this webinar, we will continue our discussion on measuring total data quality. The focus will then turn to tools and techniques for maximizing total data quality (such as responsive and adaptive survey design for designed survey data, weighting approaches, and tools for repairing linkage error). We will present a series of examples considering data from real studies, where the concepts introduced will be applied to vet the total quality of the data sets analyzed. Small-group exercises will be used to give participants hands-on experience with applying some of the concepts discussed to assess data quality.

Not for academic credit workshop.

Instructors: Trent Buskirk, James Wagner, Jinseok Kim & Brady T. West

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 12:00:52 -0400 2022-06-22T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Writing Questions for Surveys - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 22, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95206 95206-21788982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Writing Questions for Surveys

Open for registration!

June 20-22, 2022
9:00am-2:30pm EST
M-W

Course Objectives
- Introduce a structural analysis of parts of a survey question
- Introduce cognitive interviewing as a method for testing survey questions
- Describe guidelines for diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing new survey questions
- Focus on the structure and wording of survey questions, whether for interviewer-administered or self- administered instruments
- Provide an opportunity to apply the guidelines and principles during in-class exercises
- Focus on improving individual questions and sets of questions.
- Summarize research that underlies key decisions in writing survey questions.

Description
This workshop distills research about survey questions to principles that can be applied to write survey questions that are clear and obtain reliable answers. The workshop provides students with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and in writing their own survey questions. Sessions combine lecture with group exercises and discussion. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and illustrates how to revise troubled questions. Assignments require that students analyze problematic questions, revise them, and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes, evaluations, and internal
states).

Who Should Attend
Individuals who will be writing or reviewing survey questions or survey instruments or analyzing survey data. This course gives practical guidance to those who have written survey questions but who are not familiar with research on question design, those who are just beginning to design survey instruments, and those who use survey data but do not themselves design survey instruments.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Nora Cate Schaeffer

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:19:46 -0400 2022-06-22T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-22T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Writing Questions for Surveys
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 22, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-06-22T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 22, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95207 95207-21788985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing

Open for registration!

June 20-30, 2022
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
M-F

This course will focus on semi-structured, or in-depth, interviewing, with a brief introduction to other qualitative methods, including observation. Semi-structured interviewing is often most helpful in understanding complex social processes. We will examine the goals, assumptions, process, and uses of interviewing and compare these methods to other related qualitative and quantitative methods in order to develop research designs appropriate to research goals. The course will cover all aspects of interviewing, including how to decide who to interview, how to ask good interview questions, and how to conduct successful interviews. Students will conduct interviews, and discuss the process and outcome of those interviews. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology, particularly through discussion of some of the critiques of these methods.

Course Hour: 1.5

Instructor: Nancy Riley

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:20:57 -0400 2022-06-22T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 23, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 23, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-06-23T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-23T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 23, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95207 95207-21788986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 23, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing

Open for registration!

June 20-30, 2022
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
M-F

This course will focus on semi-structured, or in-depth, interviewing, with a brief introduction to other qualitative methods, including observation. Semi-structured interviewing is often most helpful in understanding complex social processes. We will examine the goals, assumptions, process, and uses of interviewing and compare these methods to other related qualitative and quantitative methods in order to develop research designs appropriate to research goals. The course will cover all aspects of interviewing, including how to decide who to interview, how to ask good interview questions, and how to conduct successful interviews. Students will conduct interviews, and discuss the process and outcome of those interviews. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology, particularly through discussion of some of the critiques of these methods.

Course Hour: 1.5

Instructor: Nancy Riley

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:20:57 -0400 2022-06-23T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing
Introduction to Survey Methodology - Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 24, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95450 95450-21789938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 24, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Survey Methodology

Webinar open for registration!

June 24, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
F

This four-hour webinar will focus on the survey methodology topics most important for understanding the objectives of responsive survey design and its applications. One set of tools will focus on maximizing participation and minimizing attrition of survey participants. Core survey methodology tools for encouraging participation will be featured. These tools include incentives, tailoring refusal conversion, switching modes, and tracking strategies. A second set of tools will focus on measurement construction. These tools include mode options, questionnaire design issues, and special instruments (such as life history calendars) to minimize reporting error. Each portion of the course will feature examples applying each specific tool to various real studies.

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Brady T. West

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 12:00:17 -0400 2022-06-24T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 24, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 24, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-06-24T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-24T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 24, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95207 95207-21788987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 24, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing

Open for registration!

June 20-30, 2022
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
M-F

This course will focus on semi-structured, or in-depth, interviewing, with a brief introduction to other qualitative methods, including observation. Semi-structured interviewing is often most helpful in understanding complex social processes. We will examine the goals, assumptions, process, and uses of interviewing and compare these methods to other related qualitative and quantitative methods in order to develop research designs appropriate to research goals. The course will cover all aspects of interviewing, including how to decide who to interview, how to ask good interview questions, and how to conduct successful interviews. Students will conduct interviews, and discuss the process and outcome of those interviews. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology, particularly through discussion of some of the critiques of these methods.

Course Hour: 1.5

Instructor: Nancy Riley

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:20:57 -0400 2022-06-24T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing
Basic Concepts in Responsive Survey Design - Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 27, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95458 95458-21789945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 27, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Basic Concepts in Responsive Survey Design

Webinar open for registration!

June 27, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
M

This course will provide participants with an overview of the primary concepts underlying RSD. This will include discussion of the uncertainty in survey design, the role of paradata, or data describing the data collection process, in informing decisions, and potential RSD interventions. These interventions include timing and sequence of modes, techniques for efficiently deploying incentives, and combining two-phase sampling with other design changes. Interventions appropriate for face-to-face, telephone, web, mail and mixed-mode surveys will be discussed. Using the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework, the main concepts behind these designs will be explained with a focus on how these principles are designed to simultaneously control survey errors and survey costs. Examples of RSD in both large and small studies will be provided as motivation. Small group exercises will help participants to think through some of the common questions that need to be answered when employing RSD.

Not for academic credit.

Instructors: Andy Peytchev & James Wagner

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 13:04:52 -0400 2022-06-27T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 27, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 27, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-06-27T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 27, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95207 95207-21788990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 27, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing

Open for registration!

June 20-30, 2022
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
M-F

This course will focus on semi-structured, or in-depth, interviewing, with a brief introduction to other qualitative methods, including observation. Semi-structured interviewing is often most helpful in understanding complex social processes. We will examine the goals, assumptions, process, and uses of interviewing and compare these methods to other related qualitative and quantitative methods in order to develop research designs appropriate to research goals. The course will cover all aspects of interviewing, including how to decide who to interview, how to ask good interview questions, and how to conduct successful interviews. Students will conduct interviews, and discuss the process and outcome of those interviews. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology, particularly through discussion of some of the critiques of these methods.

Course Hour: 1.5

Instructor: Nancy Riley

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:20:57 -0400 2022-06-27T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-27T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 28, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-06-28T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-28T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 28, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95207 95207-21788991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing

Open for registration!

June 20-30, 2022
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
M-F

This course will focus on semi-structured, or in-depth, interviewing, with a brief introduction to other qualitative methods, including observation. Semi-structured interviewing is often most helpful in understanding complex social processes. We will examine the goals, assumptions, process, and uses of interviewing and compare these methods to other related qualitative and quantitative methods in order to develop research designs appropriate to research goals. The course will cover all aspects of interviewing, including how to decide who to interview, how to ask good interview questions, and how to conduct successful interviews. Students will conduct interviews, and discuss the process and outcome of those interviews. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology, particularly through discussion of some of the critiques of these methods.

Course Hour: 1.5

Instructor: Nancy Riley

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:20:57 -0400 2022-06-28T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing
Case Studies in Responsive Design Research: Face to Face and Phone Surveys - Responsive Survey Design (June 29, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95459 95459-21789946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Case Studies in Responsive Design Research: Face to Face and Phone Surveys

Webinar open for registration!

June 29, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
W

This webinar will explore several well-developed examples of RSD. Dr. West will serve as a moderator of the webinar, and also introduce a case study from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). The instructors will then provide independent examples of the implementation of RSD in different international surveys using face-to-face and telephone modes of data collection. All case studies will be supplemented with discussions of issues regarding the development and implementation of RSD. Case studies will include the NSFG, the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) survey, and the Netherlands Survey of Consumer Satisfaction, among others. This variety of case studies will reflect a diversity of survey conditions. The NSFG (West) is a cross-sectional survey that is run on a continuous basis with in-person interviewing. The RDSL (West) is a small-scale panel survey that employed a mixed-mode approach to collecting weekly journal data from a panel of young women. The Netherlands Survey of Consumer Satisfaction (Schouten) is a mixed-mode survey combining web and mail survey data collection with telephone interviewing. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (AddHealth; Murphy) employs adaptive design in a longitudinal framework, using web, mail, telephone, and face-to-face modes of data collection. The focus of the course will be on practical tools for implementing RSD in a variety of conditions, including small-scale surveys.

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Brady T. West

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:15:58 -0400 2022-06-29T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Case Studies in Responsive Design Research: Face to Face and Phone Surveys - Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 29, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95462 95462-21789947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Case Studies in Responsive Design Research: Face to Face and Phone Surveys

Webinar open for registration!

June 29, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
W

This webinar will explore several well-developed examples of RSD. Dr. West will serve as a moderator of the webinar, and also introduce a case study from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). The instructors will then provide independent examples of the implementation of RSD in different international surveys using face-to-face and telephone modes of data collection. All case studies will be supplemented with discussions of issues regarding the development and implementation of RSD. Case studies will include the NSFG, the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) survey, and the Netherlands Survey of Consumer Satisfaction, among others. This variety of case studies will reflect a diversity of survey conditions. The NSFG (West) is a cross-sectional survey that is run on a continuous basis with in-person interviewing. The RDSL (West) is a small-scale panel survey that employed a mixed-mode approach to collecting weekly journal data from a panel of young women. The Netherlands Survey of Consumer Satisfaction (Schouten) is a mixed-mode survey combining web and mail survey data collection with telephone interviewing. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (AddHealth; Murphy) employs adaptive design in a longitudinal framework, using web, mail, telephone, and face-to-face modes of data collection. The focus of the course will be on practical tools for implementing RSD in a variety of conditions, including small-scale surveys.

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Brady T. West

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 15:40:50 -0400 2022-06-29T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 29, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-06-29T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 29, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95207 95207-21788992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing

Open for registration!

June 20-30, 2022
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
M-F

This course will focus on semi-structured, or in-depth, interviewing, with a brief introduction to other qualitative methods, including observation. Semi-structured interviewing is often most helpful in understanding complex social processes. We will examine the goals, assumptions, process, and uses of interviewing and compare these methods to other related qualitative and quantitative methods in order to develop research designs appropriate to research goals. The course will cover all aspects of interviewing, including how to decide who to interview, how to ask good interview questions, and how to conduct successful interviews. Students will conduct interviews, and discuss the process and outcome of those interviews. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology, particularly through discussion of some of the critiques of these methods.

Course Hour: 1.5

Instructor: Nancy Riley

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:20:57 -0400 2022-06-29T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing
Case Studies in Responsive Design Research in Web Surveys - Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 30, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95463 95463-21789948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 30, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Case Studies in Responsive Design Research in Web Surveys

Webinar open for registration!

June 30, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
Th

Web surveys can be an inexpensive method for collecting data. This is especially true for designs that repeat measurement over several time periods. However, these relatively low-cost data collections may result in reduced data quality if the problem of nonresponse is ignored. This webinar will examine methods for using RSD to effectively deploy scarce resources in order to minimize the risk of nonresponse bias.
Recent experiences with the University of Michigan Campus Climate Survey (UM-CCS), the National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG), and the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) are used to illustrate this point. These surveys are all defined by phased designs and multiple modes of contact. This approach improves survey outcomes, including response rates, representativeness, and cost by using alternative contact methods in later phases to recruit sample members from subgroups that were less likely to respond in earlier phases. These surveys demonstrate the benefit of RSD in web surveys across a variety of different samples sizes, and both small and large budgets and management teams. As a result, lessons from these experiences can be directly applied in many similar settings.

Not for academic credit.

Instructors: Scott Crawford & Stephanie Coffey

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:24:56 -0400 2022-06-30T09:00:00-04:00 2022-06-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 30, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 30, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-06-30T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-30T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (June 30, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95207 95207-21788993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 30, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing

Open for registration!

June 20-30, 2022
1:00pm-3:00pm EST
M-F

This course will focus on semi-structured, or in-depth, interviewing, with a brief introduction to other qualitative methods, including observation. Semi-structured interviewing is often most helpful in understanding complex social processes. We will examine the goals, assumptions, process, and uses of interviewing and compare these methods to other related qualitative and quantitative methods in order to develop research designs appropriate to research goals. The course will cover all aspects of interviewing, including how to decide who to interview, how to ask good interview questions, and how to conduct successful interviews. Students will conduct interviews, and discuss the process and outcome of those interviews. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of this methodology, particularly through discussion of some of the critiques of these methods.

Course Hour: 1.5

Instructor: Nancy Riley

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:20:57 -0400 2022-06-30T13:00:00-04:00 2022-06-30T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Qualitative Methods: Overview and Semi-Structured Interviewing
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 1, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 1, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-01T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 5, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-05T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-05T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Introduction to Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 5, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95254 95254-21789069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 5-14, 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
T & Th

This course will begin to empower students with an understanding of the importance and basic tenets of rigorous questionnaire design, as well as practice designing an appropriate instrument for a real world problem. Students will watch course videos independently, and work on a questionnaire for a topic of their choosing. Four live online meetings (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30 PM EST) will take a workshop format where students will ask questions, share their own questionnaires in progress, and give feedback to classmates.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Jessica Broome

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:54 -0400 2022-07-05T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-05T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 6, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-06T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 7, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-07T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-07T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Introduction to Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 7, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95254 95254-21789071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 5-14, 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
T & Th

This course will begin to empower students with an understanding of the importance and basic tenets of rigorous questionnaire design, as well as practice designing an appropriate instrument for a real world problem. Students will watch course videos independently, and work on a questionnaire for a topic of their choosing. Four live online meetings (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30 PM EST) will take a workshop format where students will ask questions, share their own questionnaires in progress, and give feedback to classmates.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Jessica Broome

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:54 -0400 2022-07-07T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-07T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 8, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 8, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-08T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 11, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 11, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-11T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-11T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 12, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-12T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 12, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-12T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Introduction to Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 12, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95254 95254-21789076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 5-14, 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
T & Th

This course will begin to empower students with an understanding of the importance and basic tenets of rigorous questionnaire design, as well as practice designing an appropriate instrument for a real world problem. Students will watch course videos independently, and work on a questionnaire for a topic of their choosing. Four live online meetings (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30 PM EST) will take a workshop format where students will ask questions, share their own questionnaires in progress, and give feedback to classmates.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Jessica Broome

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:54 -0400 2022-07-12T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-12T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework-Part 1- Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95464 95464-21789949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework-Part 1

Webinar open for registration!

July 13, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
W

This first webinar in a two-part series on implementing interventions in a responsive design framework will discuss a variety of potential RSD interventions. Many of these have been implemented experimentally, and the course will include evaluations of those experiments. The importance of experimental evaluations in early phases of RSD will be discussed. Methods for implementing interventions will also be discussed, including implementation of experiments aimed at evaluating new interventions. Strategies for implementing these interventions with both interviewer-mediated and self-administered (e.g., web and mail) surveys will be discussed. Methods for the evaluation of the results of the interventions (experimental and otherwise) will be considered. These evaluations will include measures of both costs and errors.

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Brady T. West

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:24:20 -0400 2022-07-13T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 13, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-13T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Introduction to Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 14, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95254 95254-21789078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 14, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Introduction to Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 5-14, 2022
2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
T & Th

This course will begin to empower students with an understanding of the importance and basic tenets of rigorous questionnaire design, as well as practice designing an appropriate instrument for a real world problem. Students will watch course videos independently, and work on a questionnaire for a topic of their choosing. Four live online meetings (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:30 PM EST) will take a workshop format where students will ask questions, share their own questionnaires in progress, and give feedback to classmates.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Jessica Broome

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:54 -0400 2022-07-14T14:00:00-04:00 2022-07-14T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Introduction to Questionnaire Design
Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework-Part 2- Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 15, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95466 95466-21789951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework-Part 2

Webinar open for registration!

July 15, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
F

This second webinar in a two-part series on implementing interventions in a responsive design framework will walk participants through several real-world examples of interventions that have been applied to real surveys. Participants will also be able to work on small-group exercises designed to develop original interventions in different survey contexts.

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Brady T. West

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:23:34 -0400 2022-07-15T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 15, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-15T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-18T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
Data Visualization for Active Monitoring-Part 1 - Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95467 95467-21789952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Data Visualization for Active Monitoring-Part 1

Webinar open for registration!

July 18, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
M

This first webinar in a two-part webinar series on data visualization for production monitoring will cover basic concepts for the design and use of “dashboards” for monitoring survey data collection. We will begin with a detailed discussion of how to design dashboards from an RSD perspective. This will include concrete discussions of how relevant data may be collected and summarized across a variety of production environments. We will also discuss how these dashboards can be used to implement RSD interventions on an ongoing basis.

Not for academic credit.

Instructors: Brad Edwards & Victoria Vignare

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:42:15 -0400 2022-07-18T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-18T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 18, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95709 95709-21790759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 18, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers

Course open for registration!

July 18-19, 2022
1:00pm-5:00pm
M/T

This short course will offer a very practical introduction to data gathering geared at social scientists and survey researchers. This course begins with an overview of web scraping discussing some basic technical jargon, types of web data and various methods for scraping. The course also includes a discussion and illustration of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) use for gathering web data when they are available. Some websites are designed to be easily accessible by web crawlers or scraping algorithms while others require much more advanced, custom programming. And some web data can be accessed using an API that is provided by the website. In this course we will illustrate how participants can discern these differences as well as presenting several motivating examples of the various ways web scraped data can be used throughout a study’s lifecycle from design to calibration to analysis. We provide an extensive introduction to a suite of freeware programs that allow virtually syntax free, but customizable, web scraping capabilities. We contrast this type of gathered data access to APIs for some websites like Zillow or Twitter and discuss pros and cons of using web scraping or APIs to gather this type of web data. The course concludes with specific focus on the import.io tool where we demonstrate its capabilities and provide several, hands-on practical examples for participants to begin scraping several websites of increasing complexity. We will also illustrate API calls in R for Zillow, the Census and others as time permits.

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Trent Buskirk

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:50:13 -0400 2022-07-18T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-19T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-19T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-19T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-19T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 19, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95709 95709-21790760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers

Course open for registration!

July 18-19, 2022
1:00pm-5:00pm
M/T

This short course will offer a very practical introduction to data gathering geared at social scientists and survey researchers. This course begins with an overview of web scraping discussing some basic technical jargon, types of web data and various methods for scraping. The course also includes a discussion and illustration of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) use for gathering web data when they are available. Some websites are designed to be easily accessible by web crawlers or scraping algorithms while others require much more advanced, custom programming. And some web data can be accessed using an API that is provided by the website. In this course we will illustrate how participants can discern these differences as well as presenting several motivating examples of the various ways web scraped data can be used throughout a study’s lifecycle from design to calibration to analysis. We provide an extensive introduction to a suite of freeware programs that allow virtually syntax free, but customizable, web scraping capabilities. We contrast this type of gathered data access to APIs for some websites like Zillow or Twitter and discuss pros and cons of using web scraping or APIs to gather this type of web data. The course concludes with specific focus on the import.io tool where we demonstrate its capabilities and provide several, hands-on practical examples for participants to begin scraping several websites of increasing complexity. We will also illustrate API calls in R for Zillow, the Census and others as time permits.

Not for academic credit.

Instructor: Trent Buskirk

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:50:13 -0400 2022-07-19T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction A Virtually Syntax Free Practical Introduction to Web Scraping for Survey and Social Science Researchers
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-20T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
Data Visualization for Active Monitoring-Part 2 - Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95468 95468-21789953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Data Visualization for Active Monitoring-Part 2

Webinar open for registration!

July 20, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm
W

This second webinar in a two-part webinar series on data visualization for production monitoring will demonstrate concepts from the first webinar using examples from actual dashboards. We will briefly explore methods for modeling incoming paradata in order to detect outliers. We will then consider practical issues associated with the development of dashboards, including software alternatives. Finally, we will demonstrate how to update dashboards using data reflecting the results of ongoing fieldwork. Participants will be provided with template spreadsheet dashboards for their own applications.

Not for academic credit.

Instructors: Brad Edwards & Victoria Vignare

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:41:12 -0400 2022-07-20T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Responsive Survey Design: A Research Education Program
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-20T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 20, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95710 95710-21790763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 20-22, 2022
1:00pm – 5:00pm
M/Th/F

The amount of data generated as a by-product in society is growing fast including data from satellites, sensors, transactions, social media and smartphones, just to name a few. Such data are often referred to as “big data”, and can be used to create value in different areas such as health and crime prevention, commerce and fraud detection. An emerging practice in many areas is to append or link big data sources with more specific and smaller scale sources that often contain much more limited information. This practice has been used for some time by survey researchers in constructing frames by appending auxiliary information that is often not directly available on the frame, but can be obtained from an external source. Using Big Data has the potential to go beyond the sampling phase for survey researchers and in fact has the potential to influence the social sciences in general. Big Data is of interest for public opinion researchers and agencies that produce statistics to find alternative data sources either to reduce costs, to improve estimates or to produce estimates in a more timely fashion. However, Big Data pose several interesting and new challenges to survey researchers and social scientists among others who want to extract information from data. As Robert Groves (2012) pointedly commented, the era is “appropriately called Big Data and not Big Information”, because there is a lot of work for analysts before information can be gained from “auxiliary traces of some process that is going on in society.”

This course offers participants a broad overview of big data sources, opportunities and examples motivated within the survey and social science contexts including the use of social media data, para data and other such sources. This course also offers a detailed, practical introduction to four common machine learning methods that can be applied to big and small data alike at various aspects of a study’s lifecycle from design to nonresponse adjustments to propensity score matching to weighting and evaluation and analysis. The machine learning methods will be demonstrated in R and we will provide several different examples of using these methods along with multiple packages in R that offer these methods.

Not for academic credit

Instructor: Trent Buskirk

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:06:23 -0400 2022-07-20T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists
Intermediate Questionnaire Design - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 21, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95256 95256-21789094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Intermediate Questionnaire Design

Open for registration!

July 18-21, 2022
8:30am - 12:00pm EST
M/T/W/Th

Participants should have prior knowledge of question design before attending.

This course is designed to follow on from Introduction to Questionnaire Design. Now instead of looking at question comprehension from a cognitive side, the linguistic side will be explored including online tools. Factual questions will be revisited but with the goal of exploring different types of respondent memory problems and their solutions, while also covering time anomalies in surveys and quasi facts. Subjective questions will be revisited to understand attitude consistency and inconsistency, to look at the feasibility of changing attitudes to change behavioral intentions to change behaviors and to cover the popular topic of satisfaction and other customer experience metrics. Alternatives to questionnaires will also be covered such as event history calendars, internet enabled devices, factorial surveys and multi-item scales. The course concludes with ways to translate survey questions and evaluate the translation. The course will be interactive with the goal of making it as close to in-person training as possible. There also will be workshops throughout. Pamela is happy to chat with participants about their own questionnaires.

Course Hour: 1

Instructor: Pamela Campanelli

Prerequisite: An introductory course in questionnaire design or equivalent experience.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:26:26 -0400 2022-07-21T08:30:00-04:00 2022-07-21T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Intermediate Questionnaire Design
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 21, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95710 95710-21790764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 20-22, 2022
1:00pm – 5:00pm
M/Th/F

The amount of data generated as a by-product in society is growing fast including data from satellites, sensors, transactions, social media and smartphones, just to name a few. Such data are often referred to as “big data”, and can be used to create value in different areas such as health and crime prevention, commerce and fraud detection. An emerging practice in many areas is to append or link big data sources with more specific and smaller scale sources that often contain much more limited information. This practice has been used for some time by survey researchers in constructing frames by appending auxiliary information that is often not directly available on the frame, but can be obtained from an external source. Using Big Data has the potential to go beyond the sampling phase for survey researchers and in fact has the potential to influence the social sciences in general. Big Data is of interest for public opinion researchers and agencies that produce statistics to find alternative data sources either to reduce costs, to improve estimates or to produce estimates in a more timely fashion. However, Big Data pose several interesting and new challenges to survey researchers and social scientists among others who want to extract information from data. As Robert Groves (2012) pointedly commented, the era is “appropriately called Big Data and not Big Information”, because there is a lot of work for analysts before information can be gained from “auxiliary traces of some process that is going on in society.”

This course offers participants a broad overview of big data sources, opportunities and examples motivated within the survey and social science contexts including the use of social media data, para data and other such sources. This course also offers a detailed, practical introduction to four common machine learning methods that can be applied to big and small data alike at various aspects of a study’s lifecycle from design to nonresponse adjustments to propensity score matching to weighting and evaluation and analysis. The machine learning methods will be demonstrated in R and we will provide several different examples of using these methods along with multiple packages in R that offer these methods.

Not for academic credit

Instructor: Trent Buskirk

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:06:23 -0400 2022-07-21T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 22, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-22T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 22, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95255 95255-21789090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Open for registration!

July 12 - 22, 2022
11:00am – 1:00pm EST
T & F

The recent proliferation of mobile technology allows researchers to collect objective health and behavioral data at increased intervals, in real time, and may also reduce participant burden. In this course, we will provide examples of the utility of and integration of wearables, sensors, and apps in research settings. Examples will include the use of wearable health devices to measure activity, apps for ecological momentary assessment, and smartphone sensors to measure sound and movement, among others. Additionally, this course will consider the integration of these new technologies into existing surveys and the quality of the data collected from the total survey error perspective. We will discuss considerations for assessing coverage, participation, and measurement error when integrating wearables, sensors, and apps in a research setting as well as the costs and privacy considerations when collecting these types of data. Participants will work in groups to discuss a research study design using new technology and have the opportunity for hands-on practice with sensor data.

Course Hour: 1

Instructors: Florian Keusch, Heidi Guyer

Prerequisite: You must have your own laptop to participate in this class.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:25:32 -0400 2022-07-22T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 22, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95710 95710-21790765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 20-22, 2022
1:00pm – 5:00pm
M/Th/F

The amount of data generated as a by-product in society is growing fast including data from satellites, sensors, transactions, social media and smartphones, just to name a few. Such data are often referred to as “big data”, and can be used to create value in different areas such as health and crime prevention, commerce and fraud detection. An emerging practice in many areas is to append or link big data sources with more specific and smaller scale sources that often contain much more limited information. This practice has been used for some time by survey researchers in constructing frames by appending auxiliary information that is often not directly available on the frame, but can be obtained from an external source. Using Big Data has the potential to go beyond the sampling phase for survey researchers and in fact has the potential to influence the social sciences in general. Big Data is of interest for public opinion researchers and agencies that produce statistics to find alternative data sources either to reduce costs, to improve estimates or to produce estimates in a more timely fashion. However, Big Data pose several interesting and new challenges to survey researchers and social scientists among others who want to extract information from data. As Robert Groves (2012) pointedly commented, the era is “appropriately called Big Data and not Big Information”, because there is a lot of work for analysts before information can be gained from “auxiliary traces of some process that is going on in society.”

This course offers participants a broad overview of big data sources, opportunities and examples motivated within the survey and social science contexts including the use of social media data, para data and other such sources. This course also offers a detailed, practical introduction to four common machine learning methods that can be applied to big and small data alike at various aspects of a study’s lifecycle from design to nonresponse adjustments to propensity score matching to weighting and evaluation and analysis. The machine learning methods will be demonstrated in R and we will provide several different examples of using these methods along with multiple packages in R that offer these methods.

Not for academic credit

Instructor: Trent Buskirk

All 2022 courses will be held in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:06:23 -0400 2022-07-22T13:00:00-04:00 2022-07-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction An Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers and Social Scientists
Design and Implementation of Web Surveys - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 25, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95712 95712-21790769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Design and Implementation of Web Surveys

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 25-29, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm,
M/T/W/Th/F

his one-week course introduces students to the design and implementation of online survey data collection instruments. The course is both hands-on and conceptual. It begins by discussing what is unique about web surveys and when their use is most appropriate, followed by an introduction to survey errors that can affect the quality of web survey data. Small groups of students will each develop a research problem and a questionnaire to address their problem, designed for online administration. They will pretest the question wording, program the questionnaire using a web survey development platform (no programming experience is required), and assess users’ (respondents’) experience while interacting with the web-based instrument. Students will also develop basic plans for data collection and analysis. Finally, each group will present its problem, online questionnaire, evaluation, and plans to the rest of the class.

Why take this course?

· To gain an understanding of what should go into creating a web-based questionnaire

· To gain experience weighing the pros and cons of different web questionnaire features

· To gain experience building a web questionnaire on a standard platform

· To gain experience evaluating survey questions and their usability in an online questionnaire

Not for academic credit

Instructors: Frederick Conrad, Florian Keusch and Christopher Antoun

All 2022 courses will we held in an alternative remote format.
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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:26:09 -0400 2022-07-25T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Design and Implementation of Web Surveys
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 25, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-25T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 25, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 25, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-25T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-25T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Design and Implementation of Web Surveys - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 26, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95712 95712-21790770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Design and Implementation of Web Surveys

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 25-29, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm,
M/T/W/Th/F

his one-week course introduces students to the design and implementation of online survey data collection instruments. The course is both hands-on and conceptual. It begins by discussing what is unique about web surveys and when their use is most appropriate, followed by an introduction to survey errors that can affect the quality of web survey data. Small groups of students will each develop a research problem and a questionnaire to address their problem, designed for online administration. They will pretest the question wording, program the questionnaire using a web survey development platform (no programming experience is required), and assess users’ (respondents’) experience while interacting with the web-based instrument. Students will also develop basic plans for data collection and analysis. Finally, each group will present its problem, online questionnaire, evaluation, and plans to the rest of the class.

Why take this course?

· To gain an understanding of what should go into creating a web-based questionnaire

· To gain experience weighing the pros and cons of different web questionnaire features

· To gain experience building a web questionnaire on a standard platform

· To gain experience evaluating survey questions and their usability in an online questionnaire

Not for academic credit

Instructors: Frederick Conrad, Florian Keusch and Christopher Antoun

All 2022 courses will we held in an alternative remote format.
,

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:26:09 -0400 2022-07-26T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Design and Implementation of Web Surveys
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 26, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-26T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-26T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
Harmful Political Content in a Fragmented Digital Media Environment (July 26, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95976 95976-21791514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:15:42 -0400 2022-07-26T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-26T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion Harmful Political Content in a Fragmented Digital Media Environment - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022
Design and Implementation of Web Surveys - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 27, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95712 95712-21790771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Design and Implementation of Web Surveys

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 25-29, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm,
M/T/W/Th/F

his one-week course introduces students to the design and implementation of online survey data collection instruments. The course is both hands-on and conceptual. It begins by discussing what is unique about web surveys and when their use is most appropriate, followed by an introduction to survey errors that can affect the quality of web survey data. Small groups of students will each develop a research problem and a questionnaire to address their problem, designed for online administration. They will pretest the question wording, program the questionnaire using a web survey development platform (no programming experience is required), and assess users’ (respondents’) experience while interacting with the web-based instrument. Students will also develop basic plans for data collection and analysis. Finally, each group will present its problem, online questionnaire, evaluation, and plans to the rest of the class.

Why take this course?

· To gain an understanding of what should go into creating a web-based questionnaire

· To gain experience weighing the pros and cons of different web questionnaire features

· To gain experience building a web questionnaire on a standard platform

· To gain experience evaluating survey questions and their usability in an online questionnaire

Not for academic credit

Instructors: Frederick Conrad, Florian Keusch and Christopher Antoun

All 2022 courses will we held in an alternative remote format.
,

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:26:09 -0400 2022-07-27T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Design and Implementation of Web Surveys
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 27, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-27T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
Forecasting Congressional Midterms: Long Lead, Strong Theory, No Polls (July 27, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95977 95977-21791515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:20:41 -0400 2022-07-27T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion Forecasting Congressional Midterms-Long Lead, Strong Theory, No Polls - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022
Design and Implementation of Web Surveys - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 28, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95712 95712-21790772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 28, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Design and Implementation of Web Surveys

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 25-29, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm,
M/T/W/Th/F

his one-week course introduces students to the design and implementation of online survey data collection instruments. The course is both hands-on and conceptual. It begins by discussing what is unique about web surveys and when their use is most appropriate, followed by an introduction to survey errors that can affect the quality of web survey data. Small groups of students will each develop a research problem and a questionnaire to address their problem, designed for online administration. They will pretest the question wording, program the questionnaire using a web survey development platform (no programming experience is required), and assess users’ (respondents’) experience while interacting with the web-based instrument. Students will also develop basic plans for data collection and analysis. Finally, each group will present its problem, online questionnaire, evaluation, and plans to the rest of the class.

Why take this course?

· To gain an understanding of what should go into creating a web-based questionnaire

· To gain experience weighing the pros and cons of different web questionnaire features

· To gain experience building a web questionnaire on a standard platform

· To gain experience evaluating survey questions and their usability in an online questionnaire

Not for academic credit

Instructors: Frederick Conrad, Florian Keusch and Christopher Antoun

All 2022 courses will we held in an alternative remote format.
,

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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:26:09 -0400 2022-07-28T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Design and Implementation of Web Surveys
Methods of Survey Sampling - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 28, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95203 95203-21788969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 28, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Methods of Survey Sampling

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:30pm EST
T/Th

A fundamental feature of many sample surveys is a probability sample of subjects. Probability sampling requires rigorous application of mathematical principles to the selection process. Methods of Survey Sampling is a moderately advanced course in applied statistics, with an emphasis on the practical problems of sample design, which provides students with an understanding of principles and practice in skills required to select subjects and analyze sample data. Topics covered include stratified, clustered, systematic, and multi-stage sample designs, unequal probabilities and probabilities proportional to size, area probability sampling, ratio means, sampling errors, frame problems, cost factors, and practical designs and procedures. Emphasis is on practical considerations rather than on theoretical derivations, although understanding of principles requires review of statistical results for sample surveys. The course includes an exercise that integrates the different techniques into a comprehensive sample design.

Why take this course?
- To understand the basic ideas, concepts and principles of probability sampling from an applied perspective
- To be able to identify and appropriately apply sampling techniques to survey design problems
- To be able to compute the sample size for a variety of sample designs
- To understand and be able to assess the impact of the sample design on survey estimates
- To learn how to design and select a probability sample involving complex sampling techniques in a survey project, and receive expert feedback on a sampling report

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Raphael Nishimura, Sunghee Lee

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:16:03 -0400 2022-07-28T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-28T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Methods of Survey Sampling
The American National Election Studies: Measuring Public Opinion Since 1948 (July 28, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95978 95978-21791516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 28, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:24:58 -0400 2022-07-28T19:30:00-04:00 2022-07-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion The American National Election Studies- Measuring Public Opinion Since 1948 - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022
Design and Implementation of Web Surveys - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 29, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95712 95712-21790773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 29, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Design and Implementation of Web Surveys

Course open for registration!
Open to all!

July 25-29, 2022
9:00am-1:00pm,
M/T/W/Th/F

his one-week course introduces students to the design and implementation of online survey data collection instruments. The course is both hands-on and conceptual. It begins by discussing what is unique about web surveys and when their use is most appropriate, followed by an introduction to survey errors that can affect the quality of web survey data. Small groups of students will each develop a research problem and a questionnaire to address their problem, designed for online administration. They will pretest the question wording, program the questionnaire using a web survey development platform (no programming experience is required), and assess users’ (respondents’) experience while interacting with the web-based instrument. Students will also develop basic plans for data collection and analysis. Finally, each group will present its problem, online questionnaire, evaluation, and plans to the rest of the class.

Why take this course?

· To gain an understanding of what should go into creating a web-based questionnaire

· To gain experience weighing the pros and cons of different web questionnaire features

· To gain experience building a web questionnaire on a standard platform

· To gain experience evaluating survey questions and their usability in an online questionnaire

Not for academic credit

Instructors: Frederick Conrad, Florian Keusch and Christopher Antoun

All 2022 courses will we held in an alternative remote format.
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Class / Instruction Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:26:09 -0400 2022-07-29T09:00:00-04:00 2022-07-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Design and Implementation of Web Surveys
Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data - Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques (July 29, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95202 95202-21788864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 29, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data

Open for registration!

June 6 - July 29, 2022
10:00am-12:00pm
M/W/F

This course provides practical methods and tools to analyze complex survey data with a hands-on introduction to the use of specialized statistical software procedures. The course focuses on case studies with specific large-scale national surveys: the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication (NCS-R), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Relevant design features of the NCS-R, NHANES and HRS include survey weights that take into account differences in probability of selection into the sample and differences in response rates, as well as stratification and clustering in the multistage sampling procedures used in identifying the sampled households and individuals. After introducing essential concepts related to complex sample designs, the course will turn to the construction of survey weights, estimation of sampling variance, descriptive analysis, regression analysis, and finally special topics in the analysis of survey data. Participants can expect to work on homework exercises, computer lab exercises, and a final analysis project.

Why take this course?
- To gain an understanding of modern methods and software for the secondary analysis of survey data collected from large complex samples
- To have the opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the instructors when walking through analyses of survey data
- To see various examples of applied statistical analyses of survey data
- To have the experience of writing a scientific paper that presents an analysis of complex sample survey data, and getting expert feedback on that paper.

Course Hours: 3

Instructors: Brady T. West, Yajuan Si

Prerequisite: Two graduate-level courses in statistical methods, familiarity with basic sample design concepts, and familiarity with data analytic techniques such as linear and logistic regression.

All 2022 courses will be offered in an alternative remote format.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:15:08 -0400 2022-07-29T10:00:00-04:00 2022-07-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data
The Sources and Consequences of Affective Polarization (August 3, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95980 95980-21791518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join us for this virtual lecture from the 2022 Blalock Lecture Series from the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science.

The 2022 Blalock Lecture Series includes 17 lectures on social science topics and data. Completely virtual, free, and open to the public. All lectures will be held from 7:30-9:00 pm ET. Share freely with friends and colleagues.

Find the full list of 2022 Blalock Lectures at https://myumi.ch/ICPSR2022Blalocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:35:46 -0400 2022-08-03T19:30:00-04:00 2022-08-03T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Lecture / Discussion The Sources and Consequences of Affective Polarization - ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Blalock Lecture Series 2022