Methodology

A central attribute of the Michigan Population Studies Center is its focus on the creation and improvement of new methods for the collection and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative empirical data. We have been a leader in the creation of data collection instruments, including questionnaire design, sampling methods, the use of focus groups, and mixed-methods approaches. Innovations in analytical methodology have also been hallmarks of the Center's agenda of research.

Funded Research and Affiliated Programs

Animated Agents and User Performance in Interactive Systems (Conrad)

Demographic Analysis of Longitudinal Historical Data (Gutmann)

Developing Geographic Information System (GIS) Simulation for Integrating Landscape Ecological Knowledge into Landscape Designs (Brown)

Ecometrics: New Directions for Multilevel Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences

Effects of Adjustments on Survey Estimates (Valliant)

Envisioning the Survey Interview of the Future Workshop (Conrad)

Human Subjects Protection and Disclosure Risk Analysis (Gutmann)

Identifying Causal Mechanisms Underlying Nonignorable Unit Through Refusals to Surveys (Groves)

Improving the Value of CDS-I For the User Community (Stafford)

Incentives for Data Producers to Create Archive-Ready Data Sets

Information Technology Challenges for Secure Access to Confidential Social Science Data (Raghunathan)

Internet Interviewing and the HRS (Willis)

Methodology for Adaptive Treatment Strategies (Murphy)

Michigan Historical Demography Workshop (Alter)

Model-based Properties of Replication Variance Estimators for Sample Surveys (Valliant)

Modeling the Impact of Health Insurance on Retirement (Coverage Research Initiative)

National Historical Geographical Information System (Gutmann)

PIRE (Partnerships for International Research and Education) Collaborative Research and Training in Social Context, Population Processes, and Environmental Change (Axinn)

Quantitative Methodology Program (QMP) (Xie)

U-M Program in Survey Methodology (Lepkowski)

Visual and Interactive Issues in the Design of Web Surveys (Tourangeau)


PSC blog

Recent resources, events, news

New Publications

Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"

Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report

Next Brown Bag

Tues, Dec 1
Arland Thornton & Barb Koremenos
Mobilizing for Human Rights
For live stream
LINK HERE

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