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。这次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小组，讨论社会、行为和健康调查方面的创新。其目标是克服共同的学科分歧，促进关于可能解决调查研究当前和迫在眉睫的挑战的创新的沟通和合作。会议的主题特别是提高调查数据的质量，提高调查数据的效用，评估适用于调查数据的技术的进步，将调查数据与人口普查和社交媒体“大数据”等辅助数据相结合，并探讨跨社会和行为科学、政府和行业的调查研究新制度创新的前景。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从业者，使用最高质量的调查研究来支持他们的活动。会议在两天的时间里重点讨论了四个主题领域：1)数据质量和透明度。对这一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。对这一主题的讨论旨在汇集研究前沿的新进展。3)调查加或超越调查答复。对这一主题的讨论旨在考虑整合辅助数据，如行政记录和其他新类型的“大数据”。4)设想新的机构。对这一主题的讨论建立在早期的基础上，以考虑在社会科学领域进行调查研究的新框架和合作的潜力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.