Frederick G. Conrad

Funded Research:

Survey Methodology Research for Surveys and Censuses (Department of Agriculture)

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

Verbal Interviewer and Respondent Behaviors that Predict Time Diary Quality: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (NIA)

Risk Communication for Environmental Exposure (NIEHS)

Nonresponse and Measurement Error in Mobile Phone Surveys (US Census)

Collaborative Research: Acoustic Properties, Listener Perceptions, and Outcomes of Interaction Between Survey Interviewers and Sample Persons (NSF)

Can Speech Cues and Voice Qualities Predict Item Nonresponse and Inaccuracy in Answers to Questions (US Census)

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

Disability, Time Use, and Well-Being Among Middle Aged and Older Married Couples (Survey Research Center)

Animated Agents and User Performance in Interactive Systems (NSF)

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Dr. Conrad is a survey methodologist whose recent work has focused on respondents' understanding of survey questions. He also studies biases in respondents' judgments about the frequency of their behaviors, the effect of automatic progress feedback on respondents' willingness to continue filling out a questionnaire, and the decision to participate in a survey among potential respondents.

Recent Publications

Books

Conrad, Frederick G., and Michael F. Schober. 2008. Envisioning the survey interview of the future. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience. Abstract.

Journal Articles

Freedman, Vicki, Frank P. Stafford, Norbert Schwarz, and Frederick G. Conrad. Forthcoming. "Measuring Time Use of Older Couples: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics." Field Methods. NIHMSID: NIHMS439349. DOI.

Conrad, Frederick G., J. Broome, J. Benki, F. Kreuter, Robert M. Groves, D. Vannette, and C. McClain. 2013. "Interviewer speech and the success of survey invitations." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series a-Statistics in Society, 176: 191-210. DOI. Abstract.

Schober, M., Frederick G. Conrad, W. Dijkstra, and Y. Ongena. 2012. "Disfluencies and Gaze Aversion in Unreliable Responses to Survey Questions." Journal of Official Statistics, 28(4): 555-582. Abstract.

Freedman, Vicki, Frank P. Stafford, Frederick G. Conrad, Norbert Schwarz, and Jennifer Cornman. 2012. "Assessing Time Diary Quality for Older Couples: An Analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics’ Disability and Use of Time (DUST) Supplement." Annals of Economics and Statistics , 105/106: 271-289. PMCID: PMC3613756. Abstract.

Freedman, Vicki, Frank P. Stafford, Norbert Schwarz, Frederick G. Conrad, and Jennifer C. Cornman. 2012. "Disability, participation, and subjective wellbeing among older couples." Social Science & Medicine, 74(4): 588-596. PMCID: PMC3371257. DOI. Abstract.

Blair, J., and Frederick G. Conrad. 2011. "Sample size for cognitive interview pretesting." Public Opinion Quarterly, 75(4): 636-658. DOI. Abstract.

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. PMCID: PMC3570266. Abstract.

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.

Houle, C., L.M. Joseph, C.H. Caldwell, Frederick G. Conrad, and E.A. Parker. 2011. "Congruence between urban adolescent and caregiver responses to questions about the adolescent's asthma." Journal of Urban Health, 88(1): 30-40. DOI. Abstract.

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