Survey Research Methods Section

• SRMS letterhead is available for members.
• Check out the January 2023 issue of the SRMS newsletter.
• Application for SRMS Student Travel Awards to attend the Joint Statistical Meetings 2023 is now available. Typically, awards up to $825 are given to cover travel expenses to JSM plus the required membership in ASA. Applications must be received by 11:59 PM EST, December 19, 2022.
• The Survey Research Methods, Government Statistics, and Social Statistics Sections are pleased to announce a competition for student and post-graduate papers.  Competition winners will present their papers at a topic-contributed session during the Joint Statistical Meetings 2023. A subsidy of up to $1,000 will be provided to each winner and five awards will be granted. Applications must be received by 11:59 PM EST, December 15, 2022.
• The Gertrude M. Cox Award Committee is seeking nominees for the 2023 Gertrude M Cox Award. Please email your nominations to Marcus Berzofsky (berzofsky@rti.org) by 28 February, 2023.
• The Waksberg Award Committee is seeking nominees for the 2024 Waksberg Award. Please email your nomination to Maria Giovanna Ranalli (maria.ranalli@unipg.it) by 15 February, 2023. 
• The portal for submitting invited session proposals for JSM 2023 will be open through Thursday, September 8, 2022 (11:59 p.m. Eastern, 8:59 p.m. Pacific). Detailed information for submitting an invited session proposal is provided here.
• SRMS members can now access all the 2011-2020 AAPOR webinars for free. To access these past webinars, please email Brady West (bwest@umich.edu) for the username and password to login to AAPOR’s website.

• 2021 proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings for the Survey Research Methods Section are now available from the SRMS proceedings page. The following papers are included in the online proceedings of the Survey Research Methods Section:    

  • Papers presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings that are sponsored by the Survey Research Methods Section
  • Papers presented at the AAPOR annual conference

  For more information about how to include your JSM or AAPOR paper in the JSM proceedings, see the JSM submission page. 

• We are happy to announce that Ray Chambers is the 2023 recipient of the Waksberg Award.

       

• Contributing a community and platform within the broader statistical community for sharing and discussing survey research, methodology, as well as emerging opportunities in our field.  (For JSM 2021, SRMS sponsors 4 invited sessions, 5 topic-contributed sessions, and 3 contributed speed sessions with 20 talks each.) 
• Being connected with the ASA survey research methods community and receiving an invitation to the annual section business meeting
• Representing the survey statistics community and showing solidarity and support to the survey research profession
• Accessing the SRMS email listserv and newsletter including career and learning opportunity announcements
• Subscribing to the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology (JSSAM) including both the printed and online versions for free
• Participating in SRMS member-only discounts for webinars and short courses
• Receiving AAPOR member pricing on most webinars
• Viewing all the 2011-2020 AAPOR webinars for free (email Brady West for the username and password to login to AAPOR’s website)
• Accessing to all the SRMS JSM proceedings, the ICES proceedings, the Hard to Reach (H2R) proceedings among others at the section’s proceedings website
• Supporting free student membership, student conference travel awards, and student paper awards 

To become a member of the SRMS, you must be a member of the ASA. When applying for the ASA membership, select “Survey Research Methods” from the “Choose Your Section(s)” list. If you are already a member of the ASA or renewing your ASA membership, then login to your member’s only page and click the “Add Additional Chapter or Section” button.