SWITCHBOARD (Connecting Resettlement Experts) - 2024 Attended a Workshop on practitioner-focused research. Served as a research methods expert helping Switchboard with their design of their Annual Survey of Refugee Service Providers.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation) - 2021 Prepared a presentation on questionnaire design and cognitive testing with special emphasis on doing surveys during a Pandemic.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC OPINION RESEARCH (AAPOR)- 2013, 2014 Worked with the AAPOR Task Force on Survey Refusals operating under the auspices of the AAPOR Standards Committee on the report "Current Knowledge and Considerations Regarding Survey Refusals".
EASTERN RESEARCH GROUP - 2012, 2013 Consulted on the feasibility, sampling possibilities, and survey design for a study that would collect second-by-second data on a randomly selected set of light-duty OBDII-compliant in-use personal vehicles in the United States. The focus of the data collection would be to collect data that quantifies fuel economy (FE), which is the distance driven per volume of fuel, and determine what are the major factors that influence fuel economy.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY - 2010 Constructed survey weights for a telephone survey conducted in the Philadelphia city and surrounding counties. This work included providing documentation on how to use the weights and how to take into account the survey design effects when estimating standard errors.
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS - 2008,2009
Help develop the survey design for the National Endowment Arts survey of outdoor arts festivals. Provided recommendations on how to
improve the sampling methodology and reviewed the survey questionnaire. Also, provided help with putting together an OMB application to
get the survey approved.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN'S INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH - 2007 Created some new national survey weights for a Howard Schuman project on collective preferences in Democratic politics
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICES - AMERICORPS PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT PROJECT: - 2004, 2005
Provided help in developing a sampling strategy, assisted with questionnaire design, helped obtain OMB
clearance, and provided support in creating data set weights.
WEBUSE- SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE INTERNET: - 2002, 2003
Trained graduate students on how to create on-line data sets for the webuse data analysis
archives. In addition, edited and updated several of the current on-line data files.
PEW INTERNET & AMERICAN LIFE: - 2001
Created on-line time diary form for collecting time diary data on the Internet. In addition,
developed tools to extract and aggregate data from the web server into a SPSS data
file structure.
AMERICAN'S USE OF TIME PROJECT: - 2000
Cleaned and edited previous time diary data files. Created a new aggregate activity data file
for the purpose of making it possible for internet users to perform on-line statistical analysis
at the University of Maryland's WebUse data archive website.
NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES: - 1999
Tested and evaluated a new Windows based computer assisted telephone interviewing software program.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY LIBRARIES: - 1998
Helped design and validate a sampling plan for estimating the loss rate of materials in the Montgomery
county public library system. In addition, to developing a sampling plan, estimated sampling errors
for each library in the system as well as the overall sampling error.
REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS: - 1997
Combined five mortgage banking studies that were conducted every two years
beginning in 1988. In addition to merging, recoding and cleaning five data files, wrote
data set documentation and a created a master codebook.
U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT: - 1996
Put together a time use data file containing eight time use studies done between the
years 1965 and 1995. Using this time use file, made a series of computer runs for a
U.S. News and World Report article on parental time.
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: - 1996
Reviewed and evaluated the Report "Results Tables from a Detailed Analysis of the
National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS) Respondents".
NEW ENGLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES: - 1996
Reviewed and evaluated a Windows based computer assisted telephone interviewing
software program.
HUGHES CORPORATION: - 1994, 1995
Consulted on the development of a questionnaire seeking information from scientists
about data information needs. Also consulted on the methodology involved with
administering a questionnaire on the World Wide Web for scientists all over the world
to fill out.
RESOURCE PLANNING CORPORATION: - 1992, 1994
Wrote methodology report describing the three modes of data collection (personal,
telephone and mail) used in three nationwide timeuse studies done at the University of
Maryland during 1985 and 1986. Created a data base that combined these three
timeuse studies into one easy to use data base.
CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD: - 1989
Developed coding procedures for California time diary study. After the diaries were
coded, created a time diary database with minutes per activity as the unit of analysis.
LEGG MASON: - 1988,1989
Consulted on the development of a survey instrument that would measure the retail
effect of a new subway station. Also consulted on the sample design of the market
study and helped in statistical analysis of this Washington Metro study.
STATE OF MARYLAND'S CONSUMER PROTECTION DIVISION: - 1988
Helped design questions on people's perception of advertising. Then testified as an
expert witness on the validity of telephone survey done for the Consumer Protection
Division. Also, analyzed results of questions asked in the State of Maryland versus
Hecht Company lawsuit.
SURRES (Survey Research Division of Applied Technology Corp.): 1984-88
Responsible for the implementation of projects between SURRES and the University of
Maryland's Survey Research Center. Wrote computer programs for telephone
questionnaires. Consulted on computer software and computer networks. Generated
random digit dial samples and other sample designs. Produced computer graphics for
reports and meetings. Supervised the data collection process and the preparation of
data sets for final analysis.
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: - 1983,1984
Consulted on research proposals and questionnaire design issues. Wrote computer
programs for telephone questionnaires. Coordinated state-wide evaluation of
information services in County library facilities. For the library study, main
responsibility was the organization of the data collection process.
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