This course will be offered via Zoom only. This online two-day (2/1 and 2/3) short course provides in introduction to developing multi-item scale measures and survey instruments. Examples include measures of various social and psychological variables that might be assessed in health, medicine, journalism, or other related research areas. After a brief theoretical introduction to topics such as defining a construct and types of validity, we will turn to applied issues such as what is the optimal scale development process…

This course will be offered via Zoom only. This online two-day (2/1 and 2/3) short course provides in introduction to developing multi-item scale measures and survey instruments. Examples include measures of various social and psychological variables that might be assessed in health, medicine, journalism, or other related research areas. After a brief theoretical introduction to topics such as defining a construct and types of validity, we will turn to applied issues such as what is the optimal scale development process…

This is a hands-on introductory workshop. Participants will create a basic survey, add display and skip logic, and use content validation, piped text, and embedded data. We will create a contact list for distributing survey invitations, and overview the elements of Survey Flow. We will create “chained” surveys to collect personal information from participants that is stored separately from survey responses for distributing survey incentives. The course will not cover analysis or reporting.   Participants are encouraged to read the…

This course will be offered via Zoom only. This online two-day (2/15 and 2/17) short course will provide participants with an introductory overview of issues frequently encountered when conducting secondary analyses of survey data collected from samples with complex multi-stage designs (e.g., PSID, NHANES, NHIS, HRS), including design-based inference, software tools, and proper analysis methods. The workshop is not intended for participants looking to design a survey, but rather for participants who have a desire to analyze complex sample survey…

This course will be offered via Zoom only. This online two-day (2/15 and 2/17) short course will provide participants with an introductory overview of issues frequently encountered when conducting secondary analyses of survey data collected from samples with complex multi-stage designs (e.g., PSID, NHANES, NHIS, HRS), including design-based inference, software tools, and proper analysis methods. The workshop is not intended for participants looking to design a survey, but rather for participants who have a desire to analyze complex sample survey…

This course will be offered via Zoom only. Online surveys now represent a large segment of the research on public attitudes and behaviors. There is widespread recognition that online surveys can be plagued by data quality issues, but there is considerable variation in the specific metrics of relevance depending on the particular online design. In this workshop we will cover metrics for evaluating common data quality issues and strategies for maximizing data quality in a variety of online survey designs,…

This course will be offered via ZOOM only.   This course is an introduction to the basic concepts for weighting. It begins by discussing the goals of survey weighting – correcting for differential selection probabilities, compensating for non-response and non-coverage and reducing the variance of the estimates. The course covers the process of developing weights for stratified two-stage sampling including computing design weights and methods for nonresponse adjustments and frame coverage error adjustments. Additional topics may include the effect of…