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    Check out the new CCES Master Question List

    May 24, 2010

    Go to the Study Data section to see a list of all the questions asked in past CCES Common Content.  You can now compare variables, question wordings, and responses by year.

    JPSM Junior Fellowship Program

    February 5, 2009

    The JPSM junior fellow program is a cooperative venture of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology.  The Joint Program in Survey Methodology is funded primarily by the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy to provide graduate educational programs for the next generation of technical staff in the Federal Statistical System.  Its graduate faculty devote their teaching careers to teaching the...

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    US Census Bureau

    February 5, 2009

    OPENINGS FOR STUDENT INTERN JOBS

    • Temporary intern positions
    • Salary based on education and experience
    • Duty location: Suitland, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, D.C.)
    • Applications accepted continually
    • For summer employment: Applicants who submit materials prior to May 1, will have a better chance of employment.

    POSITIONS AVAILABLE:

    • Analysis - (Majors such as: Economics, Demography, Math, Sociology, Psychology, Business Administration, Public...
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    US Census Bureau: Student Career Experience Program

    February 5, 2009

    Opportunities to Earn and Learn in the Student Career Experience Program:

    • Positions in related field of study
    • Salary based on education and experience
    • Duty location: Suitland, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, D.C.)
    • Applications currently accepted

    Positions Available:

    • Geographer
    • Statistician
    • Mathematical Statistician
    • IT Specialist

    Basic Qualifications:

    • U. S. Citizenship...
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    US Census Bureau: Presidential Management Fellows Program

    February 5, 2009

    For the past 27 years, the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program and its predecessor, the Presidential Management Intern (PMI) Program, have been attracting outstanding masters, law, and doctoral-level students to the Federal service. The PMF Program seeks candidates who display excellent communication, interpersonal, planning and analytical skills, decision-making ability, and the potential to perform in leadership positions. This rigorous two-year paid program includes 80-hours of training each year, rotational opportunities, challenging assignments, and opportunities to network...

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    TESS Proposal Opportunities

    February 5, 2009

    TESS is an NSF-funded infrastructure project called Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) that offers researchers opportunities to test their experimental ideas on large, diverse, randomly-selected subject populations.
    Submit proposals on the website.

    Link: www.experimentcentral.org

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    Can the State Polls be Trusted? Video Conference

    October 20, 2008

    External Link: On October 7, the New York and New Jersey chapters of AAPOR co-sponsored a panel discussion on state polling for the 2008 presidential election. The panel included Christopher Achen, Associate Chair of the Department of Politics at Princeton University; Larry Hugick, Chairman of Princeton Survey Research Associates International; Andrew Gelman from the Departments of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University; and Joe Lenski, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Edison Media Research.

    A recording of the event is available on YouTube at:
    ...

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    PSR Executive Committee Member Wins Prestigious Mitofsy Award

    October 14, 2008

    Robert Blendon, a member of the PSR Executive Committee, has been awarded the prestigious Warren J. Mitofsky Award by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.  More information.

    FROM THE ROPER CENTER:

    The Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is pleased to announce that Professor Robert Blendon of Harvard University is the recipient of the second Warren J....

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    Evaluating Pre-Election Polls

    October 7, 2008

    Pre-election polls are one of the most visible types of surveys in the news, at least around election time. Interested in better understanding the political polls this year? Here are some on-line resources to help guide you through sorting through the good and the bad.

    • The American Association for Public Opinion Research is the main professional organization for public opinion researchers. They have put together a page of helpful information on pre-election polls. http...
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    Experts offer Multiple Takes on Technology at Conference

    October 10, 2008

    Thomas Guterbock summed things up nicely at the recent “New Technologies and Survey Research” conference held by the Program on Survey Research at Harvard University.

    In his presentation “Strategies and Standards for Reaching Respondents in a New Age of Technology,” Guterbock – the Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Survey Research – described both sides of the new technology coin: it’s easier than ever for pollsters and survey researchers to get in touch with people – via cellphone, email, instant message, etc.; at the same time, other technologies are making it...

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