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Past Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award Winners

2020

Frauke Kreuter, PhD, University of Maryland, University of Mannheim and Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

2019

James Jackson, University of Michigan

for innovative survey data collection methods for studying the political, social, psychological, and mental health of African Americans.

2018

Anthony Lieserowitz, Yale University

for a new statistical method to downscale national public opinion estimates using multiple regression and post stratification (MPR) survey data collection methodology

2017

Don Dillman, Washington State University; Leah Melani Christian, Nielsen; Michelle Edwards, Texas Christian University; Benjamin Messer, Research into Action, Inc.; Morgan Millar, University of Utah; Jolene Smyth, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

for web-push data collection methodology that uses postal mail contacts to request a web response while withholding alternative response modes until later in the data collection process. Their methodology is now being used by the U.S. Census Bureau and in many countries to conduct major surveys relevant to public policy decisions.

2015

Nate Silver, Founding Director and Editor in Chief of FiveThirtyEight.com

for contributions to the General Public and Mass Media in the Realm of Statistical Literacy and Thinking

2014

Willem Saris, Pompeu
Fabra University, Spain
Daniel Oberski
Tilburg University,
The Netherlands

for their work on the Survey Quality Predictor (SQP 2.0) which made important contributions to the advancement of questionnaire design, evaluation and analysis by providing a publicly available computer program that provdes users with predictions of the validity and reliability of survey questions.

2013

Frederick G. Conrad
University of Michigan
Michael Schober
The New School for
Social Research

for research on conversational interviewing, the clarification of question meaning, the interpretation of standardized language, and the application of human dialogue features to web surveys, Conrad and Schober have advanced the application of new communication technologies to survey-data collection.

2011

Michael P. Battaglia
Martin R. Frankel
Michael W. Link
Ali H. Mokdad
Larry Osborn
&
Vincent G. Iannacchione
Jennifer M. Staab
David T. Redden

for exploring Address-Based Sampling (ABS) for both telephone and face-to-face surveys. Their research clearly demonstrated the value of ABS as a method of research and has inspired additional research on related topics.

2009

Stephen Blumberg
Julian Luke
Marcie Cynamon

for providing the field of survey research with timely data on changing telephone patterns in the United States.

2009

Vasja Vehovar
Katja Manfreda

for their work in creating and fostering the Web SM Portal.

2008

Mick Couper

for demonstrating and fostering the use of paradata by survey researchers as a tool for understanding the behavior of survey respondents.

2007

Mark Blumenthal
Charles Franklin

for developing Pollster.com, the Weblog that provides a well-informed and critical forum for understanding contemporary public opinion research and poll results.

2007

Arthur Lupia
Diana Mutz

for developing Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS).

2005

Thomas B. Jabine
Miron L. Straf
Judith M. Tanur
Roger Tourangeau

for the creation of the interdisciplinary workshop on cognitive aspects of survey methodology.

2004

James Lepkowski
Robert Casady
Clyde Tucker

for the invention of list-assisted telephone sample designs.

2003

Robert P. Daves
Paul J. Lavrakas
Tom W. Smith

for their leadership in producing "Standard Definitions: Final Dispositions of Case Code and Outcome Rates for Surveys."