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Census Bureau Releases 2010 American Community Survey Single Year Estimates

September 23, 2011

The U.S. Census Bureau today released findings from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS), the most relied-on source for up-to-date socioeconomic information every year. The release covers more than 40 topics, such as educational attainment, income, health insurance coverage, occupation, language spoken at home, nativity, ancestry and selected monthly homeowner costs.

For more information, see the U.S. Census Bureau's website.

 

JPSM Fellows: Paid Summer Internships at Federal Statistical Agencies in Washington, DC

September 21, 2011

Internship Opportunity at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology

JPSM Fellows: Paid Summer Internships at Federal Statistical Agencies in Washington, DC.

National Competition Summer, 2012

If you like using numbers to learn about people, the economy, and world events, and you will have completed your sophomore or junior year as of June 2012 with a strong academic record, there is an opportunity in Washington, DC waiting for you.

Survey Research Course Guide, 2011-2012

August 22, 2011

This course guide has been compiled by Harvard’s Program on Survey Research as a reference for students interested in the field of survey research. Various schools and departments offer courses related to survey research – and this guide represents our attempt to bring these listings together. Students are advised to check course catalogs for the most up-to-date and comprehensive information.

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Upcoming Fall Workshops

September 9, 2010

This fall PSR will offer several workshops targeted to undergraduate students using survey data in their honors theses.

These workshops are geared toward honors thesis authors in the social sciences who are using original survey data in their theses or who plan to conduct analyses of pre-existing data. The workshops will cover different steps of the survey research process, and suggest how to effectively address and discuss potential problems with survey data collection. Contact pmoynihan@iq.harvard.edu for details.

Spring Workshop, April 8: An Introduction to Survey Research for Senior Thesis Writers

January 28, 2010

This two-hour workshop, led by PSR's Patrick Moynihan, will present an overview of the survey research process for undergraduate students approaching their senior thesis. This session will focus on some of the unique aspects of survey data, and will acquaint students with the resources within PSR as well as the university more broadly to accomplish a survey-based project.

The workshop will take place in CGIS-South, Room S-153, from 5-7 pm.

Contact Patrick Moynihan for more information (617-384-5663, pmoynihan@iq.harvard.edu).

PSR Welcomes New Preceptor for Survey Research

January 28, 2010

We are pleased to announce that Patrick Moynihan has joined the IQSS team. Patrick is assuming the roles of Preceptor for Survey Research and Assistant Director for the Program on Survey Research (PSR).

PSR Hosts Eric C. Mindich Conference on Survey Quality

April 14, 2009

On April 17, 2009, the PSR hosted this year's Eric C. Mindich Conference on Experimental Social Science, which covered the topic of Survey Quality.  Conference speakers included some of the foremost experts in survey methodology, as well as leading experts in survey quality from government and the media.

The conference was held from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. in the Tsai Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138. 

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

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.

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:

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:

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 multidisciplinar

PSR Workshop on February 11: How to Frame and Explain the Survey Data in your Thesis

January 6, 2009

Undergraduate Workshop:
How to Frame and Explain the Survey Data in your Thesis

Wednesday, February 11, 2009. P.M. - 6 P.M., CGIS K354

PSR Unveils New Reference Library

November 6, 2008

The Program on Survey Research at the IQSS at Harvard is pleased to announce the opening of our new reference library, established in cooperation with the Harvard-MIT Data Center (HMDC) public computing labs.  This library is designed to provide essential professional references and guides in survey research

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: