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Course Date: July 25th, 2017
Course Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST
Instructors: James Wagner, Frauke Kreuter and Andy Peytchev
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. For more information, please visit the Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques website.
- Instructor: Frauke Kreuter
- Instructor: Andy Peytchev
- Instructor: James Wagner
Course Date: July 26th, 2017
Course Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST
Instructors: Brady West, William Axinn, Barry Schouten and Francois Laflamme
This course will explore several well-developed examples of RSD. Dr. West will serve as a moderator of the course, 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. 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, the University of Michigan Campus Climate (UMCC) 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 (Axinn) is a panel survey that employed a mixed-mode approach to collecting weekly journal data from a panel of young women. The UMCC survey is a web survey of students at UM that employed multiple modes of contact across the phases of the design. The Netherlands Survey of Consumer Satisfaction (Schouten) is a mixed-mode survey combining web and mail survey data collection with telephone interviewing. Finally, Laflamme will present a variety of examples of implementation in CATI surveys from his work at Statistics Canada. Each case study will focus on RSD features of the survey in question. The focus of the course will be on practical tools for implementing RSD in a variety of conditions, including small-scale surveys. For more information, please visit the Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques website.
- Instructor: William Axinn
- Instructor: Francois Laflamme
- Instructor: Barry Schouten
- Instructor: Brady West
Course Date: July 27th, 2017
Course Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST
Instructors: Nicole Kirgis, William Axinn and Heidi Guyer
This course will cover issues associated with implementation of RSD to manage field work. Instructors will provide concrete instruction on active monitoring of key indicators across a variety of environments – small-scale surveys, large-scale surveys, and web, telephone, face-to-face and mixed-mode surveys. Methods for implementing RSD interventions in a diversity of production environments will be discussed. RSD will be presented within the framework of the principles of project management, with a particular focus on risk management. A checklist of steps for implementing RSD will be discussed in detail. This course will draw upon a semester-long graduate course in survey management, which includes sections on RSD. For more information, please visit the Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques website.
- Instructor: William Axinn
- Instructor: Heidi Guyer
- Instructor: Nicole Kirgis