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10 May 2007

Surveying Multiethnic America

The Program on Survey Research at Harvard is hosting an afternoon conference tomorrow on the challenges of surveying multiethnic populations:

Surveying Multiethnic America

May 11, 2007
12:30 – 5:00

Institute for Quantitative Social Science
CGIS N-050
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Across a variety of different academic disciplines, scholars are interested in topics related to multiethnic populations, and sample surveys are one of the primary means of studying these populations. Surveys of multiethnic populations face a number of distinctive methodological challenges, including issues related to defining and measuring ethnic identity, and locating, sampling, and communicating with the groups of interest.

This afternoon panel sponsored by the Program on Survey Research at Harvard University will look at recent survey research projects on multiethnic populations in the US. Researchers will discuss how they confronted the unique methodological challenges in their survey projects and will consider the implications of their approach for their key theoretical and empirical findings.

Schedule:

12:30 - 2:45

Sunshine Hillygus, Harvard University, Introduction

Manuel de la Puente, US Bureau of the Census, Current Issues in Multiethnic Survey Methods

Guillermina Jasso, New York University, New Immigrant Study

Deborah Schildkraut, Tufts University, The 21st Century Americanism Study

Yoshiko Herrera, Harvard University, Discussant

3:00 - 5:00

Tami Buhr, Harvard University, Harvard Multi-Ethnic Health Survey

Ronald Brown, Wayne State University, National Ethnic Pluralism Survey

Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Texas Christian University, National Latino Politics Survey

Kim Williams, Harvard University, Discussant

Posted by Mike Kellermann at May 10, 2007 12:05 PM

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