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SURVEY PRACTICE - AUGUST ISSUE

The current issue of Survey Practice is now on the website
http://www.surveypractice.org/.

Announcement of a Special Topics Issue ? Measurement in Public Opinion Polls

Survey Practice will publish a special topic issue on measurement in public
opinion polls in December 2011. The lead article in the current issue by David
Moore provides context on the topic. The SP editors invite responses to this
article, other empirical articles related to the topic, and all forms of
thought pieces. We expect that many articles will not have data and that some
authors may want to comment on the topic rather than present research
findings. Both short and long comments will be published. The deadline for the
articles / comments is Tuesday November 22. Please contact us at
survprac@indiana.edu if you have questions about the special issue.

August Issue Contents

In his article about public policy polls, David Moore raises three issues that
may detract from the utility of these polls: 1) ignoring non-opinion, 2) not
accounting for intensity of opinion, and 3) failing to differentiate between
hypothetical and actual opinion. The article might be controversial but we
hope that it will inspire others to contest or support his views in the
special topic issue of SP.

The collection and use of paradata will influence survey methods in the next
few years. Brady West provides a summary of aroundtable discussion at JSM on
paradata. The article describes the types and uses of paradata. In addition,
he provides several recent references on the topic.

David Dutwin and his colleagues describe five customized caller-ID
experiments. They try to determine which kinds of caller-id text and numbers
are effective in increasing response rates. As is often the case in survey
research, the results varied by context.

Survey Practice is read internationally and many Europeans have contributed to
SP. The article by Bella Struminskaya and her colleagues describes a method of
prescreening cell telephone numbers that is very useful for European survey
researchers.

Amanda Richardson examined the use of postcards and letters for presurvey
notifications. She found that overall letters were more cost-effective than
postcards.

As always, we welcome your comments and hope that you will send articles to
SP. Please contact us (survprac@indiana.edu) if you have questions.

 

Editors

 

John Kennedy                  Diane O?Rourke

Andy Peytchev                 David Moore

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