An advanced research seminar on Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology (CASM II) was held in June of 1997 to expand and rededicate an interdisciplinary research agenda on the cognitive aspects of survey response. In preparation for this seminar, video interviews were conducted with some of the most influential researchers in the field, including Murray Aborn, Albert Biderman, Norman Bradburn, Charles Cannell, Steve Fienberg, Tom Jabine, Judith Lessler, Elizabeth Loftus, Elizabeth Martin, Janet Norwood, Miron Straf, Norbert Schwarz, Monroe Sirken, Seymour Sudman, JudithTanur, Roger Tourangeau, and Clyde Tucker. These researchers discussed the factors that led to the first CASM sponsored by the National Science Foundation in 1983; what they hoped the seminar would accomplish; the most notable accomplishments in the subsequent research; and the most notable remaining gaps. Their observations and recollections will be of great interest to those researchers dedicated to questionnaire design, psychology of survey response, and the quality of survey data, as well as those interested in how interdisciplinary research may persevere despite many opposing forces. Video tapes from these interviews are available individually, and also as a single composite that combines excerpts from all of the interviews with a narrative of CASM history. VHS videotapes are available at no cost to programs that teach survey methods. Contact Barbara Foley Wilson at 301.436.7111x117; Email: BFW3@cdc.gov
Add Health public-use data is now available at no charge to departments that have graduate programs in sociology, psychology, public health, adolescent health, and other social or behavioral sciences. The data is provided on CD-ROM in the form of a SAS Export file. Email requests to addhealth@unc.edu; written requests may be mailed to the Carolina Population Center, Add Health Support Staff, 123 W Franklin St, Room 206, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997. Please include the name of a contact person with the institutional address.