ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Timothy Triplett is a senior survey methodologist and part of the Urban Institute's Statistical Methods Group. He has over 30 years of survey research experience, including responsibility for national, statewide, and regional projects, sample design, developing questionnaires, and managing statistical programming. At the Urban Institute, his primary role involves working on studies that include survey data collection, complex sample designs, and random experimental designs. He has designed and studies that were used to assess, understand, and adjust performance management. His own research includes conducting methodological research addressing such issues as estimating non-response bias, weighting strategies, and imputation procedures.

Tim is an expert on working with the National Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) and was the lead survey expert responsible for improving the design of the 2008 and 2012 SPPA. Tim is an expert on working with the American Community Survey (ACS) data and organizes regular ACS users' group meeting at the Urban Institute. He also works extensively with Census data and the Current Population Survey to create survey weights, impute for missing data, or to analyze nonresponse. He is also an expert on other Arts projects including the survey design for the Annual Arts Basic Surveys (AABS) and the 2004 Cultural Arts Participation Survey; Sampling and survey weights for the 2008 Arts Festivals study; and currently working on a study evaluating changing attendance at 18 performing art centers.

Previously he worked in the Institute's assessing the New Federalism Project as the Survey Manger for the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF). He was the primary editor and key contributor of the 2002 series of twelve NSAF methodology reports. Before joining UI, he was the sampling, programming, and senior project manager at the Survey Research Center, University of Maryland at College Park. While at the University of Maryland Tim was the director of the American Time Use project that later became a core survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

He has written and presented over twenty-five survey methodology papers and served as the program chair for the 1998 International Field Directors/Technology Conference. He was the 2020/2021 chair of the AAPOR Standards Committee. Tim is also an author of a short book on questionnaire design and a chapter on using surveys for the 2015-fourth edition of the "Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation."

In addition, Tim has developed many survey research utility programs and has written the shareware program "Grand Slam Tennis" that can also be downloaded from this web site. Other web sites maintained by Tim include the Berwyn District Civic Association's web site and the DC-AAPOR web site.

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