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Call for Submissions: Journal for Survey Statistics and Methodology

Special Issue: Survey Research from Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Guest Editors:  Carolina Franco, Mamadou Diallo, Sunghee Lee, Denise Britz do Nascimento Silva

The Journal for Survey Statistics and Methodology seeks submissions for a special issue on survey research from Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Survey research stands to benefit from examining the richness of applications, ideas, and contributions from investigators around the world.  This issue aims to highlight work from locations that are typically underrepresented in JSSAM and other leading journals.  In keeping with the theme of the special issue, it is desirable for at least one of the authors in a submission to be working in one of the regions covered, and applications must use data primarily from these regions. The issue will showcase interesting survey papers from various countries.  

We seek papers from the targeted regions on the usual topics covered in the journal.   These include papers on Survey Statistics, Survey Methodology, and Applications.  The Survey Statistics section presents papers on innovative sampling procedures, imputation, weighting, measures of uncertainty, small area inference, new methods of analysis, and other statistical issues related to surveys. The Survey Methodology section presents papers that focus on methodological research, including methodological experiments, questionnaire design and testing, methods of data collection, interviewer effects, nonresponse and recruitment protocols, responsive designs, new data sources, and use of paradata. The Applications section contains papers involving innovative applications of methods and providing practical contributions and guidance, and/or significant new findings.  In addition to the general topics above, the issue also seeks papers on survey methods and statistics in multinational, multiregional, and multicultural contexts, and on capacity building efforts. 

Submissions to the special issue are welcomed through September 30, 2024. Upon submission manuscripts will be peer-reviewed in accordance with standard journal practice and will be published online soon after acceptance. See this information flyer.

 Electronic copies of the manuscripts should be uploaded at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jssam following the manuscript preparation instructions. To ensure consideration in the special issue, authors must include a cover letter that clearly states that the manuscript has been submitted for consideration for the special issue on “Survey Research from Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean.”  Queries about this special issue should be directed to Carolina Franco at franco-carolina@norc.org.

Announcements List

  • 2025 MHSS Student Paper Award Winners

    We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 MHSS Student Paper Award competition. 

    We received many outstanding submissions this cycle and will again award two honorable mentions for exceptional scholarship, in addition to the two prizes for the top two papers. 

    The 2025 MHSS Student Paper Award winners: 

    • Andy Shen (UC Berkeley, Department of Statistics)
    • Chengyu Cui (University of Michigan, Department of Statistics)

    The 2025 MHSS Student Paper Award Honorable Mentions: 

    • Daniel Suen (University of Washington, Department of Statistics)
    • Wenbo Fei (Columbia University, Department of Biostatistics)

    There will be an award ceremony at the Mental Health Statistics Section mixer at JSM 2025 to honor the winning submissions and honorable mentions and to present awards. We look forward to seeing you then! 

  • Registration is open for the Nonclinical Biostatistics Conference!

    Mark your calendars for the 9th biennial Nonclinical Biostatistics Conference, sponsored by the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section! The conference will take place from June 16-18, 2025, at Rutgers University. We have a great program in the works. Abstract submission and registration are now open. We hope to see you in June!