Preliminary Schedule

Wednesday, May 11

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Short Course Registration Desk Open

2:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Short Courses

Course 1: Dealing with Missing Data
Course 2: Designing Surveys for Mobile Devices: Pocket-Sized Surveys that Yield Powerful Results

4:00-7:00 p.m.

Registration Desk Open

Thursday, May 12

7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Registration Desk Open

8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Golf Outing

8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Short Courses

Course 3: The Principles for Questionnaire Design
Course 4: The Benefits & Challenges of Address-Based Sampling Designs
Course 5: Creating Effective Designs for Mixed-Mode Surveys

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions A

Session 1: Surveys in the Islamic World: Methods & Findings
Session 2: Something Borrowed, Something New: Exploring Post-Participation Incentives
Session 3: Historical Perspectives on Survey Research and Polling
Session 4: Methods to Improve Web Surveys
Session 5: Understanding Public Perceptions on Global Warming
Session 6: Sharpening Your Instrument: Strategies to Improve Survey Questions
Session 7: Administrative Records and the 2020 Census
Session 8: Methodological Briefs: Weighting & Design Issues in RDD/Cell Phone Surveys

3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Exhibit Hall and Book Exhibit Open

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall, Meet the Author Sessions, Poster Session 1, Demonstration Session 1

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions B

Session 1: Cross-Cultural Survey Methods: I
Session 2: Racism and Sexism in Contemporary Society
Session 3: Factors Influencing Survey Participation
Session 4: Enhancements to Address-Based Sampling
Session 5: Interviewer Effects & Performance Measurement
Session 6: Media Exposure & IT Influence on Opinion and Behavior
Session 7: A Generation of Societal Change
Session 8: Proliferation of Polls (Good & Bad) & the Way Media Uses Them with a Less-Than-Critical Eye

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

AAPOR New/Member/All Chapter Reception

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Dinner

8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Plenary Session: Public Perception & Societal Conflict: The History of Immigration Reform in the U.S.

9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Dessert Reception

Friday, May 13

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

AAPOR Committee Meetings

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

7:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Exhibit Hall and Book Exhibit Open

7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Registration Desk Open

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions A

Session 1: Cross-Cultural Survey Methods: II
Session 2: Assessing and Adjusting for Unit Non-response Bias
Session 3: Do Incentives Affect Data Quality?
Session 4: Methods to Improve Online Surveys
Session 5: Using Address-Based Sampling with Challenging Populations
Session 6: Survey Context & Socialization among Language Minorities
Session 7: GLBT Persons & Couples: Perceptions, Attitudes, Behaviors
Session 8: Public Opinion and the Economy

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Refreshment Break

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions B

Session 1: Cross-National Comparative Survey Findings
Session 2: 2010 Mid-Term Elections: The Western Battleground States
Session 3: Overcoming Challenges in Sensitive Topic Health Surveys
Session 4: Mixed-Mode Methods of Data Collection
Session 5: Comparative Analyses - When Does ABS Matter?
Session 6: Methodological Issues in Questionnaire Design
Session 7: Public Perception of Hispanics in the U.S. - Attitudes & Impact
Session 8: Methodological Briefs: Survey Participation & Response Bias

11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Luncheon & Presidential Address

1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions C

Session 1: Cross-National Public Perspectives on Immigration
Session 2: The Full Monty on RDD Samples - Enhancement, Weighting, Abandonment
Session 3: Multi-Mode Comparative Data - When Does Mode Matter?
Session 4: Methods to Improve Data Quality
Session 5: Comparative Research on World Suffering, Extremism & Evangelicalism
Session 6: Public Opinion on Healthcare Policy & Reform
Session 7: Survey Research in the Arab Gulf: Lessons from the Region
Session 8: All Things Obama

3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall, Meet the Author Sessions, Poster Session 2, Demonstration Session 2

4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions D

Session 1: Public Perception of Illegal Immigration Policy: Local, State, Regional & National Perspectives
Session 2: Dynamics of Consumer Confidence
Session 3: Correlates & Impacts of Unit Nonresponse
Session 4: Web Survey Methods – Sampling, Participation, Data Quality
Session 5: Are Measurement and Item Nonresponse Differences a Problem in Web & Mail Mixed-Mode Surveys?
Session 6: Survey Data Collection with Smartphones & iPads®
Session 7: Election Polls - Mechanics
Session 8: Methodological Briefs: Data Collection & Post-Survey Processing

6:00 p.m.

Dinner on your own - dine at the resort of explore Phoenix

8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Stargazing Event

Saturday, May 14

7:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Exhibit Hall and Book Exhibit Open

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

AAPOR Committee Meetings

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

7:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Registration Desk Open

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions A

Session 1: Cultural Competence in Survey Research - What is it?
Session 2: Improving Response Rates in Health & Medical Surveys
Session 3: Technical Aspects of the Construction, Coverage, Limitations and Future of the DSF
Session 4: Cell Phone Sampling: Operational Issues
Session 5: Questionnaire Design: Improving Data Quality
Session 6: The Challenge of Polling in Congressional Races: A View from 2010
Session 7: Web Survey Questionnaire Design
Session 8: Addressing the Challenges of Interviewing Youth about Sexual Assault: Experiences from the National Survey of Youth in Custody

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Refreshment Break

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Concurrent Sessions B

Session 1: AAPOR's Transparency Initiative - Progress & Prospects
Session 2: Cell Phone Sampling & Weighting
Session 3: Issues in Multi-Mode Data Collection
Session 4: Surveying Ethnic Populations
Session 5: Advanced Statistical Methods for Exploring Interviewer Effects in Behavior Coded Data and Survey Pretest Data
Session 6: The Story behind the 2010 Mid-Term Election
Session 7: Re-examining Classic Measures in Public Opinion Surveys
Session 8: Methodological Briefs: Improving Questionnaires

11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Speed Networking Session 2

1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Dessert Break in the Exhibit Hall, Meet the Author Sessions, Poster Session 3, Demonstration Session 3

2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions C

Session 1: Exploring Interviewer & Respondent Error in Cross-National, Cross-Cultural Surveys
Session 2: Respondent Conditioning in Panel Surveys
Session 3: Cost & Operational Efficiencies in Cell Phone Surveys
Session 4: The Role of the Interviewer in Survey Data Quality
Session 5: Comparing Probability & Non-Probability Sample Surveys
Session 6: Using Sample Surveys to Measure the Effect of Messaging
Session 7: Methodological Challenges and Solutions to Research on Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Military Personnel
Session 8: 2010 Election Polls: Assessments and Mechanics

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

AAPOR Membership & Business Meeting

President's Reception

Awards Banquet

Post-Banquet Party

Applied Probability

Stargazing Event

Sunday, May 15

Registration Desk Open

Short Course

Course 6: The Use of Incentives in Survey Research

Concurrent Sessions A

Session 1: Understanding Panel Attrition
Session 2: Insights from Cognitive Interviewing
Session 3: Election Polling Methods and Considerations
Session 4: Sampling/Weighting in Multi-Frame Designs Involving Cell Phone Populations
Session 5: Cross-National Illustrations of ABS & Other Sample Designs
Session 6: Coverage Follow-up in the 2010 Census
Session 7: Sampling Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the U.S.
Session 8: Methodological Briefs: Using Incentives to Increase Survey Participation

Concurrent Sessions B

Session 1: Assessing Public Attitudes towards Minorities
Session 2: How Recalcitrance Affects Data Quality
Session 3: Response & Nonresponse issues in Multi-Mode Surveys
Session 4: Sampling Frame Methods - Geographic, Network and within Households
Session 5: Questionnaire Design: Response Options and Order Effects
Session 6: Religious Identification and Opinion Formation
Session 7: Media Effects: Framing & Priming
Session 8: TBD