The Survey Research Methods Section is sponsoring several mission-enabling sessions at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings in Nashville, Tennessee, August 2–7. These sessions are aimed at promoting survey science, rigorous use of survey research methods, and the role of survey research methods in informing policy.
The sessions cover a wide range of topics that highlight key challenges in contemporary survey research and practice. Invited paper session topics include small area estimation, missing data, differential privacy, and diverse applications using modern surveys. Topic-contributed sessions feature student paper competition winners and address a variety of themes, including social networks, nonprobability samples, the process of producing official statistics, and open-ended survey questions. Many of these topics are echoed in contributed paper sessions. Contributed speed sessions adapt Cochran’s sample size rule to complex designs, explore uses of new administrative data sources, and study the effects of poststratification on differential privacy. Posters will investigate multi-level regression, Bayesian inference with complex designs, and uses of AI to process questionnaire data. Participants in roundtable discussions will explore best practices for gathering household survey data, issues related to scientific integrity and statistical ethics, milestones in statistical matching, and common misunderstandings of survey weights. Finally, SRMS will offer a professional development course on nonprobability samples.
A complete list of activities can be found in the JSM online program. To find details about SRMS-sponsored sessions, filter the category by “Survey Research Methods Section.” For speed sessions, filter the event type by “Contributed Speed” and choose the speed session number of interest. There are SRMS-sponsored contributed speed presentations in sessions two and six.
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