CIPHER 2023
In its fifth year, the annual Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) Conference again offered a forum for exchange, dissemination and learning. As in previous years, the focus of the conference was on population-representative probability-based online panels, which enable us to paint an in-depth portrait of how people in the United States and other countries are doing.
Program and Presentations
The joint conference took place March 9 – 10 in Washington, D.C.
Videos of the CIPHER presentations and agenda
PRESENTATIONS
March 9 – March 10, 2023
Steering Committee: Arie Kapteyn, Marco Angrisani, Jill Darling, Francisco Perez-Arce, USC Center for Economic and Social Research; and Angela Fontes, Financial Health Network.
All times are in Eastern Standard Time
| SESSION 31:30 PM | Panel Recruitment and Composition: Target Sampling and Approach VariationSession Chair: Jill Darling (USC Center for Economic and Social Research) |
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| Chintan Turakhia (SSRS)Improving Response Rates and Sample Representativeness via a multimode design for a Statewide SurveyPresentation | |
| Ipek Bilgen (NORC at the University of Chicago)The impact of using personalized solicitation on response rates and composition during mail contact when recruiting to a probability-based panelPresentation | |
| Jon Krosnick (Stanford University)The Quality of Data Obtained from River Sampling Online SurveysPresentation | |
| Frances Barlas (Ipsos)Recruiting Latino Households – Geographic and Modeled Targeting with Address Based SamplesPresentation |
| 2:50 PM | Break |
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| SESSION 43:00 PM | Human Needs: Food, Shelter, and HealthSession Chair: David Rogofsky, Social Security Administration |
| Katherine Carman (RAND Corporation)Nice Work if You Can Get It: Willingness to Pay to Avoid BurnoutPresentation | |
| Michelle S. Livings (University of Southern California)Under-reporting of food insecurity in surveys that ask participants to recall the past year versus the past weekPresentation | |
| Andrew Parker (RAND Corporation)A shock to the system: Using panel survey data to understand how COVID-19 changed long-term influenza vaccination trajectoriesPresentation | Paper | |
| SESSION 54:00 PM | Growing Pains: Challenges in Probability-based SamplesSession Chair: Katherine Carman (RAND Corporation) |
| Angelica Phillips (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)Who Owns Smartphones? An Assessment of Smartphone Coverage of the U.S. Population Over TimePresentation | |
| Randall K. Thomas (Ipsos Public Affairs)Cleanliness and Goodliness: Data Cleaning Effects on Bias and Covariance in Probability-based SamplesPresentation | |
| Sam Slamowicz / Darren Panney (The Social Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia)Investigating Panel Conditioning Effects in the Life in Australia(TM) PanelPresentation | |
| Jennifer Hunter Childs (U.S. Census Bureau)Testing Methods for a Probability-Based, Nationally-Representative Survey Panel for Federal UsePresentation | |
| 5:15 PM | Reception, sponsored by the FINRA Foundation |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
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| SESSION 91:30 PM | Survey Data Analysis: No data is perfect, all data is valuableSession Chair: Andrew Parker (RAND Corporation) |
| Necati Celik / Kenna Cepa (Financial Health Network)Once Financially Unhealthy, Always Financially Unhealthy? Evidence from a 5-year UAS Panel SurveyPresentation | Paper | |
| Mansour Fahimi (Marketing Systems Group (MSG))Reliable Inferences from Imperfect DataPresentation | |
| Matthias Schonlau(University of Waterloo)Automated classification for open-ended questions with BERTPresentation | Paper | |
| SESSION 102:30 PM | Individuals’ Attitudes and PerceptionsSession Chair: Tania Gutsche (USC Center for Economic and Social Research) |
| Andrew C. Ward (The Social Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia)Combining online survey data and area-level external data to create local estimates of social attitudes in AustraliaPresentation | |
| JoNell Strough (West Virginia University)Age differences in psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: March 2020 to June 2021Presentation | |
| Samer Atshan (Pardee RAND Graduate School)Using longitudinal survey data to account for risk perceptions in population- and individual-level epidemiological COVID-19 modelsPresentation | |
| 3:30 PM | Closing Remarks |
Conference Organizers: Tania Gutsche, Pamela Tyler, and Tarra Kohli
Videos of the UAS Data Use Workshop
March 8, 2023
All times are in Eastern Standard Time
| 10:00 AM | Breakfast and Registration |
| 11:00 AM | Introduction to the UAS Arie Kapteyn – Presentation |
| 11:15 AM | Navigating the UAS Marco Angrisani, Francisco Perez-Arce – Presentation |
| 11:35 AM | Data Access Jill Darling – Presentation |
| 11:50 AM | Data Visualization Francisco Perez-Arce – Presentation |
| 12:05 PM | Data Products Comprehensive File – Francisco Perez-Arce – Presentation COVID Tracking – Arie Kapteyn – Presentation Cognition Comprehensive File – Stefan Schneider – –Presentation EMA Burst Files – Stefan Schneider – Presentation Monthly Event File – Francisco Perez-Arce – Presentation |
| 1:20 PM | Lunch Break |
| 2:20 PM | More Data Products UAS Education Project – Marshall Garland – Presentation Crosswalk of Dementia Categorization – Stefan Schneider – Presentation Contextual Data – Arie Kapteyn – Presentation LA Barometer – Kyla Thomas – Presentation |
| 3:20 PM | Using the UAS for Data Collection Experiments – Marco Angrisani – Presentation Process for Administering Surveys – Jill Darling – Presentation Special Services – Tania Gutsche – Presentation |
| 3:50 PM | Use of Wearables Ritika Ratnam Chaturvedi – Presentation Arie Kapteyn – Presentation |
| 4:20 PM | Break |
| 4:30 PM | Uses of UAS Data Session Chair: Arie KapteynJules Dupuy (USC Lenorad Davis School of Gerontology) Individual risk perception and long-term care insurance take-up: evidence from the United States – PresentationKelly Hyde (RAND Corporation) (Virtual Presentation) Perceived Analogies of Mpox and Associated Worry – PresentationLuisa Blanco (Pepperdine University) Digital solutions to empower Latinx communities when making decisions about finances and health – Presentation | PaperJovita Murillo (Charles Drew University) The Social Impacts of the Pandemic on Women’s Health – PresentationAdam Stivers (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) Look behind the Curtain: The Direct and Indirect Impact of Non-cognitive Skills on Stock Market Participation – Presentation | Paper |
| 5:45 PM | Feedback and Closing |
For CIPHER speaker bios, please see here.
CIPHER Conference
Keynote
Dr. Brady West, Research Professor in the Survey Methodology Program, located within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, delivered the keynote address “Moving from a national probability-based push-to-web survey to an online probability-based panel: What are the issues?” on the first day of the conference.
More Information
The annual CIPHER Conference continues to be the flagship platform for continued learning, offering an opportunity to connect with the global research community that uses this tool across a range of fields and disciplines. It is a venue for international researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers to share lessons on developing, deploying, and using probability-based internet panel research.
UAS Data Use Workshop
For the first time this year, the conference also offered the opportunity to participate in a data use workshop for those interested in learning more about USC’s Understanding America Study (UAS). The UAS is a probability-based online panel of over 9,000 households in the US, managed by the Center for Economic and Social Research at USC.
Scientific Committee
Arie Kapteyn, Jill Darling, Marco Angrisani, and Francisco Perez-Arce (USC Center for Economic and Social Research); and Angela Fontes (Financial Health Network).
Sponsorship
This conference has been made possible through funding from a grant partnership between the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration, with additional support from the FINRA Foundation.