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Roger Tourangeau
Funded Research:
Collaborative Research: Motivated Underreporting (NSF)
Collaborative Research: On Latent Class Models of Measurement Error (NSF)
DHMH Tobacco Program Evaluation (State of Maryland)
Improving the Design of Health Surveys on the Web (NICHD)
START, Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (Homeland Security, Department of)
Survey Measures of Subjective Well-being: Age, Appraisal, and Cognition Effects (NIA)
The Effects of Survey Presentation on Nonignorable Nonresponse and Measurement Error (NSF)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
Director, Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland.
Ph.D., Yale University
Dr. Tourangeau is the lead author of The Psychology of Survey Response, a classic reference that examines the processes through which survey respondents answer questions. In recent work, he studies the use of audio and visual presentation of survey questions and the capability of interaction with the respondent, methods especially useful in the collection of sensitive information.
Recent Publications
Books
Tourangeau, Roger. 2003. Recurring surveys : issues and opportunities. Washington, D.C. : National Science Foundation.
Journal Articles
Tourangeau, Roger. 2011. "The 2010 Morris Hansen Lecture Dealing with Survey Nonresponse in Data Collection, in Estimation Discussion." Journal of Official Statistics, 27(1): 29-32. Local Access.
Kreuter, F., S. McCulloch, S. Presser, and Roger Tourangeau. 2011. "The Effects of Asking Filter Questions in Interleafed Versus Grouped Format." Sociological Methods & Research, 40(1): 88-104. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Ye, C., J. Fulton, and Roger Tourangeau. 2011. "MORE POSITIVE OR MORE EXTREME? A META-ANALYSIS OF MODE DIFFERENCES IN RESPONSE CHOICE." Public Opinion Quarterly, 75(2): 349-365. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Couper, Mick P., Courtney Kennedy, Frederick G. Conrad, and Roger Tourangeau. 2011. "Designing Input Fields for Non-Narrative Open-Ended Responses in Web Surveys." Journal of Official Statistics, 27(1): 65-85. Abstract. Local Access.
Yan, T., Frederick G. Conrad, Mick P. Couper, and Roger Tourangeau. 2011. "Should I stay or should I go: The effects of progress feedback, promised task duration, and length of questionnaire on completing web surveys." International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 23(2): 131-147. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Valliant, Richard L., Roger Tourangeau, and Janice Lent. 2010. "The Role of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology in Training U.S. Federal Statisticians." Journal of Official Statistics, 26(3): 427-441. Local Access.
Peytchev, A., Frederick G. Conrad, Mick P. Couper, and Roger Tourangeau. 2010. "Increasing respondents' use of definitions in web surveys." Journal of Official Statistics, 26(4): 633–650. Abstract. Public Access. Local Access.
Conrad, Frederick G., Mick P. Couper, Roger Tourangeau, and A. Peytchev. 2010. "The impact of progress indicators on task completion." Interacting with Computers, 22(5): 417-427. PMCID: PMC2910434. DOI. Abstract.
Tourangeau, Roger, Robert M. Groves, and C.D. Redline. 2010. "Sensitive Topics and Reluctant Respondents: Demonstrating a Link between Nonresponse Bias and Measurement Error." Public Opinion Quarterly, 74(3): 413-432. DOI. Abstract.