Smyth receives AAPOR award for innovative survey process

Photo Credit: Jolene Smyth
Fri, 03/24/2017 - 15:45

Jolene Smyth, associate professor of sociology, has received the Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research. She is part of a research team recognized for web-push data collection methodology that uses postal mail contacts to request a web response while withholding alternative response modes until later in the data collection process.

Their methodology is now being used by the U.S. Census Bureau and in many countries to conduct major surveys relevant to public policy decisions.

The Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award recognizes accomplishments in the fields of public opinion and survey research that occurred in the past ten years or that had their primary impact on the field during the past decade.

Smyth's colleagues on the project are:

  • Don A. Dillman, Washington State University
  • Leah Melani Christian, Nielsen
  • Michelle Edwards, Texas Christian University
  • Benjamin Messer, Research-Into-Action
  • Morgan M. Millar, University of Utah