Mick P. Couper

Funded Research:

Economic Status, Health, & Wellbeing over the Life Course and Across Generations (NIA)

Monitoring the Future: A Cohort-Sequential Panel Study of Drug Use, Ages 19-55 (NIDA)

Intensive Measurement of Drug Use During the Transition to Adulthood (NIDA)

Health and Retirement Study Yrs 23-28 (NIA)

The Joint Program in Survey Methodology Year 20 (Department of Commerce, Office of the Secretary)

Health, Wealth, and Wellbeing over the Life Course and Across Generations (NIA)

Collaborative Research: Responding to Surveys on Mobile, Multimodal Devices (NSF)

Collaborative Research: Coupled Observation Of The Water Environment: A National Survey Program (NSF)

Improving the Self-Efficacy of African American Parents in Infant Supine Sleep (NICHD)

Impact of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (NHGRI)

National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) (CDC)

Health Literacy and Health Disparities Among the Elderly (NIA)

Modifiable Risk and Protective Factors for Suicidal Behaviors in the US Army (NIMH)

How do Peers Influence Each Other's Mental Health and Help-Seeking in College? (Grant, WT)

Surveys of Healthcare Workers, Management Health, and Safety Practices (CDC)

NSMD Continuing Analysis (Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making)

Identifying and Reducing Cognitive Biases Created by Decision Aids (NCI)

Electronic Journal Data Collection Technologies for Interdisciplinary Research (NIDA)

Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) (NCRR)

Improving the Design of Health Surveys on the Web (NICHD)

Young Women's Relationships, Contraception, and Unintended Pregnancy (NICHD)

A Tailored Asthma Education Program for Urban Teens II (Henry Ford Health System)

How Does Race Matter in Housing? Projected Mobility, Search, and Preferences (NICHD)

Human Subjects Protection and Disclosure Risk Analysis (NICHD)

Ph.D., University of Cape Town

Dr. Couper's current research interests include survey non-response, design and implementation of survey data collection, effects of technology on the survey process, and computer-assisted interviewing, including both interviewer-adminstered (CATI and CAPI) and self-administered (web, audio-CASI, IVR) surveys. Many of his current projects focus on the design of web surveys.

Recent Publications

Books

Couper, Mick P. 2008. Designing Effective Web Surveys. New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract.

Groves, Robert M., F.J. Fowler, Mick P. Couper, James M. Lepkowski, Eleanor Singer, and R. Tourangeau. 2004. Survey Methodology. New York: Wiley. Abstract.

Couper, Mick P., J. Rothgeb, J. Lessler, E.A. Martin, J. Martin, and Eleanor Singer. 2004. Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires. New York: Wiley. Abstract.

Journal Articles

Couper, Mick P., and F. Kreuter. 2013. "Using paradata to explore item level response times in surveys." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series a-Statistics in Society, 176: 271-286. DOI. Abstract.

Bauermeister, J., E. Pingel, Martin B. Zimmerman, Mick P. Couper, A. Carballo-Dieguez, and V. Strecher. 2012. "Data Quality in HIV/AIDS Web-Based Surveys: Handling Invalid and Suspicious Data." Field Methods, 24(3): 272-291. PMCID: PMC3505140. DOI. Abstract.

Groves, Robert M., S. Presser, Roger Tourangeau, B. West, Mick P. Couper, Eleanor Singer, and C. Toppe. 2012. "Support for the Survey Sponsor and Nonresponse Bias." Public Opinion Quarterly, 76(3): 512-524. DOI. Abstract.

Kaplowitz, M., F. Lupi, Mick P. Couper, and L. Thorp. 2012. "The Effect of Invitation Design on Web Survey Response Rates." Social Science Computer Review, 30(3): 339-349. DOI. Abstract.

Zikmund-Fisher, B., Mick P. Couper, and A. Fagerlin. 2012. "Disparities in patient reports of communications to inform decision making in the DECISIONS survey." Patient Education and Counseling, 87(2): 198-205. DOI. Abstract.

Sakshaug, Joseph, Mick P. Couper, Mary Beth Ofstedal, and David Weir. 2012. "Linking survey and administrative records: mechanisms of consent." Sociological Methods and Research, 41: 535-569. DOI. Abstract.

Joseph, C. L. M, J. Saltzgaber, S. Havstad, C. Johnson, D. Johnson, E. Peterson, G. Alexander, Mick P. Couper, and D. Ownby. 2011. "Comparison of early-, late-, and non-participants in a school-based asthma management program for urban high school students." Trials, 12: 141. PMCID: PMC3126736. DOI. Abstract.

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