We can’t wait to meet you in Los Angeles for the 81st Annual AAPOR Conference!

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Put a face to the SSRS team member names you’ve heard this year and learn more about our research areas and how our services and solutions are answering the most dynamic questions today. Be sure to pick up our custom sticker sheet designed for this year’s event!

ATTEND OUR SESSIONS  

Our team presents papers, briefs, posters, roundtables, and idea groups on a range of topics, including election polling, methodological experiments on our panel, and our work with special populations.

SSRS AAPOR Session Schedule

Tuesday, May 12th

2PM – 5PM

• 2026 AAPOR Idea Group: Teaching America’s Youth about Public Opinion Polling: What Is AAPOR’s Role In (re)Building Democracy/Democratic Institutions through K-12 Education?
  • Robyn Rapoport¹, Kenneth Winneg², Lance Holbert², Ashley Koning³, Camille Burge⁴, Kathleen Weldon⁵ and Luke Gerwe⁶, (1)SSRS(2)University of Pennsylvania(3)Rutgers Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling(4)Villanova University(5)Roper Center for Public Opinion Research(6)PBS Newshour
  • Program: Idea Groups
• Exploring Avenues for Achieving Methodological Rigor and Cost Efficiency in State-Level Research
  • Kristen Conrad¹, Arina Goyle¹, Susan Sherr¹, Elizabeth Lukanen², Andrew Smith³, Mark Watts⁴ and Jens Manuel Krogstad⁵, (1)SSRS(2)University of Minnesota(3)University of New Hampshire(4)NORC at the University Of Chicago(5)Lumaris
  • Program: Idea Groups

Wednesday, May 13th

9AM – 10:30AM

• Challenges in Transitioning the Annual Survey of Refugees from Cati to Web Mode
  • • Arina Goyle¹, David Crawford¹, Hamutal Bernstein², Tim Triplett² and Paola Echave², (1)SSRS, (2)Urban Institute
    • Session: Participation, Consent & Fieldwork Under Constraints
• Increasing Response Rates and Reducing Partisan Bias In Election Survey Participation: An Experimental Test of Survey Branding and Language Strategies
  • • Jazmyne Sutton (presenting author), Eran Ben-Porath, and Hayley Boote, SSRS
    • Session: Polling & Public Confidence
• The Evolution and Future of Election-Day Surveys
  • • Eran Ben-Porath and Joseph Lenski, SSRS
    • Panel: Inside the Voter Poll: Innovations In Election Day Polling for 2026 and Beyond
• What Teens Really Hear: Rethinking Survey Design through Cognitive Interviews
  • • Jania Marshall (presenting author), Melissa Silesky, Darby Steiger, and Kristen Conrad (panelist), SSRS
    • Session: QUALPOR Affinity Group Panel: Qualitative Research: Fostering Engagement with Hard-to-reach & Underrepresented Participants
• Outcome-Driven Calibration In Hybrid Designs: A Multi-Study Validation
  • • Luis Tipan (presenting author), Manel Hanafi, Cameron McPhee, and Jonathan Best, SSRS
    • Session: Advances in Weighting, Calibration, and Automation

3:15PM – 4:15PM

• The Impact of Government Mentions In Survey Invitation Letters on Participation Among Vulnerable Populations
  • • Jazmyne Sutton (presenting author), Emily Jennings, and Sam Genova, SSRS
    • Session: Poster Session 1

4:15PM – 5:45PM

• Innovations In Exit Polling: A New Way of Measuring the Electorate during the 2025 Cycle
  • • Joseph Lenski and Cameron McPhee, SSRS
    • Panel: Unpacking 2025 Pre-Election Polling: Challenges, Insights, and Real-Time Lessons from New Jersey, New York City, Virginia, and California
• Problems and Pride Month: Political Ideology and the Lgbtqia+ Community
  • • Jordan Reuter (presenting author) and Jennifer Berg, SSRS

Thursday, May 14th

9:30AM – 11AM

• Recruiting, Maintaining, Effectively Utilizing Probability Panels for Survey Research: Challenges and Opportunities
  • • Cameron McPhee, SSRS
    • Session: Directors Cut #2 – Nonprobability and Probability Sampling
• Challenges and Solutions for Conducting Survey Research In Skilled Nursing Facilities
  • • Akilah Evans-Pigford (presenting author) and Eran Ben-Porath, SSRS
    • Session: Establishment Survey Affinity Group Panel – Beyond the Front Desk:  Approaches to Reaching, Recruiting, and Retaining Respondents in Establishment Surveys
• Sponsored by the Survey Costs Workshop – Survey Costs: An Update from the Recent Workshop
  • • Panelist members: Stephanie Chardoul¹, Stephanie M. Coffey, PhD², Ashley Kirzinger³, Jordon Peugh⁴, James Wagner¹, Kristen Olson⁵ and James Wagner¹, (1)University of Michigan(2)U.S. Census Bureau(3)KFF(4)SSRS(5)University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • Program: Special Events

4PM – 5:30PM

• Blink and You’ll Miss It: A Comparison of 24-Hour Flash Polls Vs. Longer Field Period Studies
  • • Kristen Conrad (presenting author)¹, Manel Hanafi¹ and Scott Clement², (1)SSRS, (2)Washington Post
    • Session: Length Matters, But How Much? Tradeoffs in Field Periods and Survey Instruments

Friday, May 15, 2026

8:30AM – 10AM

• Challenged By Design: Weighting the 2025 Boston Jewish Community Survey
  • • Cameron McPhee (presenting author)¹, Eran Ben-Porath¹, Laurence Kolter-Berkowitz² and Daniel Parmer³, (1)SSRS, (2)Rosov Consulting, (3)CJP
    • Session: Innovative Methods for Complex Survey Designs: Bayesian and Beyond

10:15AM – 11:45AM

• Paths out of the Chaos: A discussion of bridges, patches, and innovative workarounds for federal data gaps
  • • Chris Jackson (moderator)¹, Elizabeth Lukanen², Ashley Amaya³, Meeta Anand⁴ and Amy O’Hara⁵, (1)SSRS(2)University of Minnesota(3)Pew Research Center(4)The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights(5)Massive Data Institute, Georgetown University
    • Program: Roundtables
• Leveraging Parallel Probability Samples to Detect Poor Data Quality in Opt-in Samples
  • • Mickey Jackson, SSRS
    • Session: Improving Data Quality in Probability and Nonprobability Samples
• Panels They Are a-Changin’: Exploring Factors Other Than Attrition That Impact Panel Composition In a National Probability Panel
  • • Jared Gumbs (presenting author) and James McKinstry, SSRS
    • Session: Opportunities and Challenges in Probability-Based Panels
• Leveraging Traditional Qualitative and ‘Qual at Scale’ Methods: Insights from a Citywide Study In Philadelphia, 2025
  • • Melissa Silesky8 (presenting author)¹, Darby Steiger¹, Robyn Rapoport¹, Rob Manley¹, Nikky Enterline¹ and Shawn Mooring², (1)SSRS, (2)The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
    • Session: Methodological Innovations in Qualitative research

1:15 – 2:15

• Presidential Address
  • • Jordon Peugh
    • Program: Special Events

2:15 – 3:45

• We Have to Make the Case — a Discussion of American Public Opinion about the U.S. Federal Statistical System
  • • Jordon Peugh and Chris Jackson, SSRS
    • Session: Directors Cut #5 – Polling, Official Statistics & Public Trust: Reinforcing the Public Value and Accessibility of Official Data