Two New Journal Volumes on Survey Practice

The American Association for Public Opinion Research has released Vol. 10, No. 3, 2017 of the e-journal Survey Practice. Articles and authors include:

• Tailored Explanation: A Strategy to Minimize Nonresponse in Demographic Items Among Low-income Racial and Ethnic Minorities by Maichou Lor, Barbara J Bowers, Anna Krupp, and Nora Jacobson
• The Performance of Vignettes in Focus Groups and Cognitive Interviews in a Cross-Cultural Context by Mikelyn Meyers, Yazmín A. G. Trejo, and Lucia Lykke
• Exploring the Effects of Pre-interview Practice in Asian Language Cognitive Interviews by Hyunjoo Park, Patricia Goerman, and Mandy Sha
• Successful Techniques to Recruit Hispanic and Latino Research Participants by Mandy Sha, Georgina McAvinchey, Rosanna Quiroz, and Jennifer Moncada
• Device and Internet Use among Spanish-dominant Hispanics: Implications for Web Survey Design and Testing by Yazmín A. G. Trejo, and Alisú Schoua-Glusberg
• Cultural Fitness in the Usability of U.S. Census Internet Survey in Chinese Language by Lin Wang, Mandy Sha, and Michelle Yuan

Statistics Canada has released Vol. 43, No. 1, June 2017 of Survey Methodology. Abstracts and links to seven papers included in the journal may be found on Statistics Canada Website. Titles of articles include:

• The promise and challenge of pushing respondents to the Web in mixed‑mode surveys by Don A. Dillman
• A layered perturbation method for the protection of tabular outputs by Jean-Louis Tambay
• State space time series modelling of the Dutch Labour Force Survey: Model selection and mean squared errors estimation by Oksana Bollineni-Balabay, Jan van den Brakel, and Franz Palm
• Bayesian predictive inference of a proportion under a two-fold small area model with heterogeneous correlations by Danhyang Lee, Balgobin Nandram, and Dalho Kim
• Sample allocation for efficient model-based small area estimation by Mauno Keto, and Erkki Pahkinen
• A mixed latent class Markov approach for estimating labour market mobility with multiple indicators and retrospective interrogation by Francesca Bassi, Marcel Croon, and Davide Vidotto
• Variance estimation in multi-phase calibration by Noam Cohen, Dan Ben-Hur, and Luisa Burck

Note that all Survey Methodology papers are available both in English and French.