Explore NCHS Research at the AAPOR Annual Conference

Researchers from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) will present their work at the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) 79th annual conference being convened May 15–17 at the Hilton Atlanta.

The conference brings together researchers to focus on the theme of “Impacting Communities: Surveys, Public Opinion Research, and Engaged Scholarship” and to share the latest methodology and survey research best practices.

The presenters at this year’s conference come from several NCHS survey groups—

• Research and Development Survey
• National Health Care Surveys
• National Health Interview Survey
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Presentations of NCHS research

If attending AAPOR, you can find NCHS exhibiting in the Salon East ballroom, booth 508.

All sessions are on the 2^nd floor of the Hilton Atlanta.

Wednesday, May 15

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM, Room 219

Panel: Pride in Numbers: Evaluating and Implementing Sogi Questions on Surveys

• Collecting Gender Identity on the National Health Interview Survey: Where We’ve Been and Where We Are Going
• Asking about Gender as a Single, Non-Binary Construct Versus a Two-Step Question Approach

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Room 219

Using Classification Trees to Develop Raking Variables for Weighting Calibration: An Example from the National Health Interview Survey-Teen Followback Study

Thursday, May 16

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM, Room 217

Adapting Our Methods: Using Photo Elicitation during Cognitive Interviews with Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (ID/DD)

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM, Room 222

Panel: Applying Natural Language Processing to Advance Efficiency and Insights from Open-Text Survey Response Data

• A Semi-Automated Nonresponse Detector (SANDS) Model for Open-Response Data
• Augmenting Manual Coding of NHIS Private Health Insurance Responses with Artificial Intelligence

1:45 PM – 3:15 PM, Room 220

Question Design Matters: Interpretations of the Newly Proposed Combined Race and Ethnicity Question

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM, Salon

Poster: Changes in Refusal Reasons over Time in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2017-2023)

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 216

Roundtable panel: Adapt or Die: How Research Organizations Are Dealing with Major Changes to What We Study and How We Study It

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 218

Use of a Set-up Fee to Encourage Survey Participation and Electronic Health Record Submission for a National Health Care Survey

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 222

Analyzing the Effectiveness of Large Language Models in Curating Themes Related to Gender Identity

Friday, May 17

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM, Room 210/211

Concordance between Parent- and Teen-Reported Health Behaviors in a Follow-Back Study of Teens

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM, Room 216

Understanding Exam Nonresponse in a Nationally Representative Health Survey

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM, Room 221

Session: Cognitive Interviews and Other Tools to Develop Good Questions

• Survey Practice in Non-Survey-Literate Populations: Methodological Implications from a Cognitive Interview Study in Brazil
• Rethinking Principles of Question Design: From Art to Socio-Cultural Understanding

9:45 AM – 11:15 AM

Do Health Examination Completion Effects Hold up across Geographical Areas? Evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Room 218

Panel: Methodological Advancements in Using Multiple Probability Panels in the Collection of Official Statistics: Examples from the National Center for Health Statistics Rapid Survey System

• A Test of a “Federal” Approach to Increase Survey Response and Fit-for-Purpose of Probability Panels for Federal Data Collection
• Combining Data from Multiple Sources: Performance of Different Classes of Estimators from Monte Carlo Simulations
• A Comparison of Two Procedures for Combining Mean Estimates from Independent Probability Samples

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Room 221

Examining the Performance of Self-Rated Health Functioning and Measurement Equity Using Item Response Theory