Eleanor Singer
Funded Research:
Beliefs About Genes and Environment as Causes of Behavior (NIA)
Framing Effects in Causal Attributions of Behavior (NHGRI)
Identifying Causal Mechanisms Underlying Nonignorable Unit Through Refusals to Surveys (NSF)
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
Adjunct Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., Columbia University
Dr. Singer works primarily in two areas of research with implications for population research: knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs with respect to genetics and genetic testing, and the ethical and practical implications of concerns about confidentiality on response rates to surveys. In the first area, she has focused on differences between ethnic and racial groups in the U.S. Her research on confidentiality has focused on how beliefs and attitudes interact with topic sensitivity and disclosure limitation practices to affect willingness to participate in survey research.
Recent Publications
Books
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.
House, James S., F. Thomas Juster, Robert Kahn, Howard Schuman, and Eleanor Singer. 2004. A Telescope on Society: Survey Research & Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Abstract.
Journal Articles
Singer, Eleanor, and Couper, Mick P. 2008. "Do Incentives exert undue influence on survey participation? experimental evidence." Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 3(3): 49-56. DOI:10.1525/jer.2008.3.3.49. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Singer, Eleanor, Couper, Mick P., Trivellore Raghunathan, J. Van Hoewyk, and Toni Antonucci. 2008. "Trends in US attitudes toward genetic testing, 1990-2004." Public Opinion Quarterly, 72(3): 446-458. DOI:10.1093/poq/nfn033. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Bates, Nancy, James Dahlhamer, and Eleanor Singer. 2008. "Privacy Concerns, Too Busy, or Just Not Interested: Using Doorstep Concerns to Predict Survey Nonresponse." Journal of Official Statistics, 24(4): 591-612. Public Access.
Couper, Mick P., Eleanor Singer, Frederick G. Conrad, and Robert M. Groves. 2008. "Risk of Disclosure, Perceptions of Risk, and Concerns about Privacy and Confidentiality as Factors in Survey Participation." Journal of Official Statistics, 24(2): 255-275. Public Access.
Curtin, Richard, Eleanor Singer, and Stanley Presser. 2007. "Incentives in Random Digit Dial Telephone Surveys: A Replication and Extension." Journal of Official Statistics, 23(1): 91--105. Public Access.
Singer, Eleanor, Toni Antonucci, M. Burmeister, Mick P. Couper, Trivellore Raghunathan, and J. Van Hoewyk. 2007. "Beliefs about genes and environment as determinants of behavioral characteristics." International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 19(3): 331-353. DOI:10.1093/ijpor/edm016. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Couper, Mick P., Roger Tourangeau, Frederick G. Conrad, and Eleanor Singer. 2006. "Evaluating the effectiveness of visual analog scales - A web experiment." Social Science Computer Review, 24(2), 227-245. DOI:10.1177/0894439305281503. Licensed Access.
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