Preparing for the Future of Survey Research

该奖项为一个关于社会科学调查研究未来的（虚拟）会议提供支持。会议汇集了来自不同学术领域和不同行业的跨学科研究人员，讨论社会、行为和健康调查方面的创新。目标是克服共同的学科分歧，促进关于创新的沟通和合作，这些创新可能会解决调查研究当前和即将面临的挑战。会议特别关注的主题包括提高调查数据的质量、改善调查数据的效用、评估适用于调查数据的技术进步、将调查数据与辅助数据（如人口普查和社交媒体“大数据”）整合，以及研究社会和行为科学、政府和行业在调查研究中新的制度创新的前景。虚拟会议将汇集来自不同社会和行为科学领域的不同背景和领域的学者和实践者，他们采用最高质量的调查研究来支持他们的活动。会议将在两天内集中讨论四个主题领域：1)数据质量和透明度。对这个主题的讨论有助于建立评估数据收集的标准。2)调查方法创新。讨论这个话题的目的是汇集研究前沿的新进展。3) Survey Plus或超越调查回应。本主题的讨论旨在考虑辅助数据的整合，如行政记录和其他新型“大数据”。4)设想新的制度。对这一主题的讨论建立在先前的基础上，以考虑在社会科学中进行调查研究的新框架和合作的潜力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides support for a (virtual) conference about the future of survey research in the social sciences. The conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from various academic fields and from various industries to discuss innovations in social, behavioral, and health surveys. The goal is to overcome common disciplinary divides and to foster communication and collaboration about innovations that might address current and impending challenges for survey research. In particular, the conference focuses on the themes of increasing the quality of survey data, improving the utility of survey data, assessing advances in technologies applicable to survey data, integrating survey data with auxiliary data, such as census and social media “big data,” and examining the prospects for new institutional innovations in survey research across the social and behavioral sciences, governments, and industry.The virtual conference will bring together scholars and practitioners from diverse backgrounds and fields in the various social and behavioral science areas that employ the highest quality survey research to support their activities. The conference focuses on four subject areas over the two days: 1) Data quality and transparency. Discussion of this topic helps to establish the standards by which data collections are evaluated. 2) Survey methods innovations. Discussion of this topic is aimed at assembling novel advances at the research frontier. 3) Survey Plus or looking beyond survey responses. Discussion of this topic is aimed at consideration of integration of auxiliary data, such as administrative records and other new types of “Big Data.” 4) Imagining new institutions. Discussion of this topic builds on the earlier foundations to consider the potential for new frameworks and collaborations for conducting survey research in the social sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.