ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

New article! About a year ago, I asked ChatGPT 3.5 to calculate the reading level of survey questions. It was totally wrong. And this paper was born! Trent Buskirk and I examine multiple ChatGPT and Claude models for evaluating question reading levels & inputs. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper alert! We examine the effectiveness of sending a follow-up incentive to nonrespondents after an initial prepaid incentive (a sequential incentive). Response rates increased with higher seq incentives, but costs skyrocketed with $5 vs. $1 or $2. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Survey costs drive almost every data collection decision, but are woefully understudied. @aapor.bsky.social, @amstatnews.bsky.social, and @westatofficial.bsky.social are cosponsoring this important workshop on Survey Costs in February 2026! Submit your abstract today! aapor.org/aapor-2026-s...

Survey costs drive almost every data collection decision, but are woefully understudied. @aapor.bsky.social, @amstatnews.bsky.social, and @westatofficial.bsky.social are cosponsoring this important workshop on Survey Costs in February 2026! Submit your abstract today! aapor.org/aapor-2026-s...

I'm teaching a research ethics class for upper division undergraduates this semester. Looking for case study examples of ethical issues that aren't the BIG ones (e.g., Tuskegee, Milgram, Zimbardo) in a digestible form for undergrads (news articles, podcasts, videos, shorter articles).

It was an honor to speak in this memorial session for Don Dillman at #JSM25. Don's influences on the science of surveys are extraordinary. But the primary words that people use to describe him at his memorial are kind, generous, honest, humble, and welcoming - I think he did something extra right.

@olsonkm.bsky.social kicks off our session celebrating Don Dillman at #JSM2025 with a discussion of Don’s contributions to survey methodology. Thanks to @statstas.datascience.blue for setting this up! 💯

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

I was honored to be the keynote speaker at the #ESRA25 @esrasurvey.bsky.social conference last week in Utrecht. A fantastic conference all around, with great talks on data collection methods, AI, data donation, questionnaire design, and much more.

Good news! Release 1 of the 2024 GSS is available for download. The 2024 GSS, like 2022, uses web, in-person, and phone modes. For some variables this can complicate analyses of trends. See documentation. Still a prob sample & gold standard survey w/ high resp rates (by contemporary standards).

If you encounter what seems like an implausible survey finding, ask: 1. Were survey respondents selected randomly or was this an opt-in poll? 2. Could the results, especially for young adults, be driven by bogus respondents? Keep this post in mind: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

everything about this is simultaneously absolutely wrong and absolutely perfect

I give comments to my students of “what’s the denominator?” all the time!This level of precision matters not only for understanding the group about whom one is making inference, but also to suggest whether it’s the whole set of respondents or a subset of them (and all the errors therein).

🚨 Call for all AAPOR board gamers! 🚨 GAMEPOR is finally officially on the conference schedule, now named "Longitudinal Leisure Study (with board games)". Bring your favorite (and luggage friendly) board games to the conference and come join us for an epic game night! 🎲 #AAPOR @aapor.bsky.social

Looking forward to the #AAPOR25 conference next week! I will be giving papers on visible incentives in mixed-mode surveys, mode preferences in today’s survey landscape, and using generative AI for reading level calculations of survey questions.

Hey data nerds, ANES 2024 Combined Pre- and Post-Election preliminary data is out now! Have fun! 🤓

We are thrilled that the amazing @olsonkm.bsky.social will give a keynote at #ESRA25! Title: "From Mail Surveys to Chatbots: Changes in Survey Modes, Methods, and Data Sources Over Time"! Register now for #ESRA25 & be part of the future of survey research!

This article is a great example for a questionnaire design class!

We have a paper in this Special Issue of @surveypractice.bsky.social! Spanish translation of self-administered surveys in a rural are with higher concentrations of Spanish speakers yielded very few Spanish language completes, but they came from addresses w/a Hispanic surname indicator on ABS frame.

Here are a few studies I've published using data from Dept. of Educ / IES. None were funded by DoE/IES. Most are with Steve Morgan (often lead), Dafna Gelbgiser, and undergrad or grad students, some of whom went on to work for Dept. of Education. 1st Sue's 🧵, the inspiration for this one.

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

Over 1,000 submission to Social Science Computer Review in 2024! That's incredible. Please send us your best work! 📝 Follow this account to see the amazing work that we have published. 🏆

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

The American National Election Study is an NSF funded publicly available, incredibly rich dataset that tracks American public opinion, vote choice and evaluations of government that has been in the field since 1948. It is an incredible resource for teaching and research and must be protected.

I do think we should have discussions about how to do education research that is cost effective, but the implicit suggestion that the ED activities are wasteful/fraud is just wrong. Read on if you want concrete examples. Inexplicable Cuts at the Dept. of Education open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...

Cool job alert:

Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals 1/

The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a great org, asks individuals & orgs to sign their letter requesting Congress act to restore data that has been removed & ensure a similar purge does not reoccur. #EconSky #PolicySky #sociology #PoliSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Also see this fantastic resource from @vernharner.bsky.social which includes the above datasets and so much more: tiny.cc/2025drive

Important: “CDC Data Sets as of 28 January, 2025 can be found here. Please share widely.” archive.org/details/2025... (h/t Ace Robinson of Duke University)

The 2020 and 2030 Census and 2026 test site is down.... And now it looks like the whole thing is gone again? www.census.gov/2030census

If you work with any federal data--on demography, economics, health, education, climate, agriculture, whatever--and you notice any changes this year in data availability, quality, or completeness, please let me know.

📢 It happened! #ESRA is on Bluesky 🎉

Nominations sought for the 2026 Waksberg Award! The winner will publish a paper that reviews the development and current state of an important topic in the field of survey statistics & methodology in the journal Survey Methodology & get an honorarium. #StatsSky www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/12-00...

Do you like leading discussions about your area of survey methods and statistics research? Do you like chatting with others about research over a meal? If so, consider leading a roundtable at #JSM2025 for SRMS. Abstracts due by February 3 - ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2025/submissions.cfm.

#StatsSky I'm a big fan of data sets from the history of #statistics, but this article by guru Stephen Stigler gives one pause: Data Have a Limited Shelf Life hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/iu26pfw1/ ""Data, unlike some wines, do not improve with age." Three interesting classic examples

For all your 2025 teaching, writing, and article reviewing needs

Organizing files for the New Year and came across this beauty…. My PhD qualifying exam in survey methodology, covering the master’s curriculum. 33 pages long! Completed in person in 8 hours with no notes.

SAVE THE DATES!!! Great news: useR 2025 will take place at Duke University, in Durham, NC, USA, August 8-10! More details to announced shortly, so stay tuned via duke-university-ocmd.read.axioshq.com/signup/user_... www.linkedin.com/posts/user-c...

A very nice analysis of timing of sending surveys conducted by text messages!

And that's all folks...

😍 @olsonkm.bsky.social: If you use complex survey data, read and use the PRICSSA checklist (Preferred Reporting Items for Complex Sample Survey Analysis) in this Editor's Choice paper by Seidenberg, Moser and our @bradytwest.bsky.social et al. 👏👏

I have served as the editor-in-chief for the survey methods side of @jssam.bsky.social for the last 4 years. We have had really great papers come through. To end my term, I want to highlight a few of them from the survey methods side of the journal in no particular order, other than the first paper.

Thanks, @olsonkm.bsky.social, for highlighting our paper. This was fun to write because it forced us to really think deeply about the connection between self-reports and sensor data, and it helped me clarify my own thinking about how we can combine the two.

This was a really helpful read.

Thank you Kristen! 🙏

I have served as the editor-in-chief for the survey methods side of @jssam.bsky.social for the last 4 years. We have had really great papers come through. To end my term, I want to highlight a few of them from the survey methods side of the journal in no particular order, other than the first paper.

I feel like there have been a bunch of versions of this thread, but I can’t find them right now so I’ll ask again. What’s your favorite intro to causal inference for someone early in their data science/statistics education? #stats