Survey Research Methods Activities and Election Results

Survey Research Methods Section members have free online access to the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology and Public Opinion Quarterly as a newly added member benefit. Visit the SRMS website for details.

2024 SRMS Election Results

Chair-elect 2024
Eric Rancourt
Statistics Canada

Program Chair-elect 2024
Chris Moriarty
National Center for Health Statistics

Secretary 2024–2025
Martha McRoy
Abt Associates

Council of Sections Representative 2024–2026
Andreea Erciulescu
Westat

SRMS at JSM 2023

At JSM 2023, the section is sponsoring six invited sessions, nine topic-contributed sessions, eight contributed sessions, and 18 poster and speed presentations in addition to co-sponsoring a number of other sessions.

Winners of the 2023 Student Paper Competition—which is jointly sponsored by SRMS, the Government Statistics Section, and the Social Statistics Section—are the following:

• Yuke Wang, Georgia State University, for “Bayesian Jackknife Empirical Likelihood-Based Inference for Missing Data and Causal Inference Problems”
• Rahul Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for “Causal Inference with Corrupted Data: Measurement Error, Missing Values, Discretization, and Differential Privacy”
• Elizabeth Bersson, Duke University, for “Optimal Conformal Prediction for Small Areas”
• Yi Zhang, Harvard University, for “Safe Policy Learning Under Regression Discontinuity Designs with Multiple Cutoffs”
• Melody Huang, University of California, Berkeley, for “Sensitivity Analysis for Survey Weights”

These students will have the opportunity to present their work at JSM 2023.

SRMS Webinar

Yves Tillé presented the webinar “Innovations in Spatial Sampling” in March. The webinar, organized by and hosted in collaboration with ASA Professional Development and Chapters and Sections Manager Rick Peterson, was offered to the SRMS and ASA communities and non-members.

Tillé is a professor at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland. His research interests include survey sampling and estimation in finite populations. During the webinar, he covered methods for spread sampling, measures for spreading, the wave method, and such methods and their applications as estimating obesity in the United States and Swiss biodiversity monitoring.