Professional Standards

Published quality standards include those listed here.

Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Security web site

This site is maintained by the American Statistical Association's Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality. It provides guidelines and standards for protecting the privacy and confidentality of survey respondents and other sources throughout the process of data distribution and analysis.

Link:

http://www.amstat.org/comm/cmtepc/index.cfm?fuseaction=main

Office of Management and Budget Standards and Guidelines for Statistical Surveys

Link:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg/statpolicy.html

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NCPP Standards for Disclosure

Link:

http://www.ncpp.org/disclosure.htm

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CASRO Code of Standards and Ethics for Survey Research

Link:

http://www.casro.org/codeofstandards.cfm

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AAPOR Standards for Preventing and Addressing Interviewer Falsification

Link:

http://www.aapor.org/pdfs/falsification.pdf

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AAPOR Position on Reporting Margin of Error for Online and Other Self-Selected Samples

Link:

http://www.aapor.org/pdfs/2006/samp_err_stmt.pdf

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AAPOR Standard Definitions: Final Disposition of Case Codes and Outcome Rates for Surveys

Link:

http://www.aapor.org/pdfs/standarddefs_4.pdf

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AAPOR Standards and Best Practices for Survey Research

Link:

http://www.aapor.org/default.asp?page=survey_methods/standards_and_best_practice...

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AAPOR Code of Professional Ethics and Practices

Link:

http://www.aapor.org/default.asp?page=survey_methods/standards_and_best_practice...

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Spring Conference Recap

Experts offer Multiple Takes on Technology at Conference

Thomas Guterbock summed things up nicely at the recent “New Technolgies 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 easier for those same people to avoid surveys—by using caller id, answering machines, etc.

Upcoming Events

May 14 2010
AAPOR Annual Conference
July 31 2010
American Statistical Association
November 8 2010
American Evaluation Association 2010 Annual Conference
February 8 2011
American Sociological Association-Annual Meeting