Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Biography
Dr. Wagner is a survey statistician. His research is in the areas of responsive or adaptive design, nonresponse bias, and data quality measures. He also develops and implements responsive design plans on large surveys.
Projects
Funded Research
- A More Efficient Web-Based Approach to Collecting National Family, Fertility and Reproductive Health Data
- Advancing the Science of Responsive Design Using Bayesian Methodology
- Exploring Design Aspects of Web-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling for Racial/Ethnic Minorities
- Improving Reproducibility of Respondent Driven Sampling through Adaptive Design
- National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
- National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
- National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
- National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
- National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
- Responsive Design for Efficient Survey Data Collection: An Education Program
- STARRS Longitudinal Study (STARRS LS)
- STARRS Longitudinal Study (STARRS LS)
Publications
- Couper, Mick P.; Gremel, Garret; Axinn, William G.; Guyer, Heidi; Wagner, James; West, Brady T. (2018). New options for national population surveys: The implications of internet and smartphone coverage. Social science research, 73, 221-235.
- Schouten, Barry; Mushkudiani, Nino; Shlomo, Natalie; Durrant, Gabi; Lundquist, Peter; Wagner, James (2018). A Bayesian Analysis of Design Parameters in Survey Data Collection. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 6(4), 431-464.
- Wagner, James; Olson, Kristen (2018). An Analysis of Interviewer Travel and Field Outcomes in Two Field Surveys. Journal of Official Statistics, 34(1), 211-237.
- Walejko, Gina; Wagner, James (2018). A Study of Interviewer Compliance in 2013 and 2014 Census Test Adaptive Designs. Journal of Official Statistics, 34(3), 649-670.
- Wagner, James; Stoop, Ineke A. L. (2018). Comparing Nonresponse and Nonresponse Biases in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts. 807-833. In Johnson, Timothy P.; Pennell, Beth-Ellen; Stoop, Ineke A. L.; Dorer, Brita (Ed.), Advances in Comparative Survey Methods: Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (3MC).
- McCarthy, Jaki; Wagner, James; Sanders, Herschel Lisette (2017). The Impact of Targeted Data Collection on Nonresponse Bias in an Establishment Survey: A Simulation Study of Adaptive Survey Design. Journal of Official Statistics, 33(3), 857-871.
- Wagner, James; West, Brady T.; Guyer, Heidi; Burton, Paul; Kelley, Jennifer; Couper, Mick P.; Mosher, William D. (2017). The Effects of a Mid-Data Collection Change in Financial Incentives on Total Survey Error in the National Survey of Family Growth. 155-178. In Biemer, Paul P.; De Leeuw, Edith D.; Eckman, Stephanie; Edwards, Brad; Kreuter, Frauke; Lyberg, Lars E.; Tucker, Clyde; West, Brady T. (Ed.) John Wiley & Sons:Hoboken, NJ.
- Wagner, James; Olson, Kristen; Edgar, Minako (2017). The Utility of GPS data in Assessing Interviewer Travel Behavior and Errors in Level-of-Effort Paradata. Survey Research Methods, 11(3).
- Wagner, James; Schroeder, Heather M.; Piskorowski, Andrew; Ursano, Robert J.; Stein, Murray B.; Heeringa, Steven G.; Colpe, Lisa J. (2017). Timing the Mode Switch in a Sequential Mixed-Mode Survey: An Experimental Evaluation of the Impact on Final Response Rates, Key Estimates, and Costs. Social Science Computer Review, 35(2), 262-276.
- Schouten, Barry; Peytchev, Andy; Wagner, James (2017). Adaptive Survey Design. Boca Raton, FL:CRC Press.
- Lee, Sunghee; Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba; Lepkowski, James M.; Lee, Sunghee; Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba; Wagner, James; Valliant, Richard L. (2017). Total Survey Error and Respondent Driven Sampling: Focus on Nonresponse and Measurement Errors in the Recruitment Process and the Network Size Reports and Implications for Inferences. Public opinion quarterly, 33(2), 335-366.
- Schouten, Barry; Cobben, Fannie; Lundquist, Peter; Wagner, James (2016). Does more balanced survey response imply less non-response bias?. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 179(3), 727-748.
- Laflamme, Francois; Wagner, James (2016). Responsive and Adaptive Designs. 397. In Wolf, Christof; Joye, Dominique; Smith, Tom W.; Fu, Yang-Chih (Ed.), Sage Handbook of Survey Methodology. Sage:New York.
- Nishimura, Raphael; Wagner, James; Elliott, Michael R. (2016). Alternative Indicators for the Risk of Non-response Bias: A Simulation Study. International Statistical Review, 84(1), 43-62.
- West, Brady T.; Wagner, James; Hubbard, Frost and Gu, Haoyu (2015). The Utility of Alternative Commercial Data Sources for Survey Operations and Estimation: Evidence from the National Survey of Family Growth. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 3(2), 240-264.
- Olson, Kristin and Wagner, James (2015). A Feasibility Test of using Smartphones to Collect GPS Information in Face-to-Face Surveys. Survey Research Methods, 9(1).
- Axinn, William G.; Gatny, Heather H. and Wagner, James (2015). Maximizing Data Quality using Mode Switching in Mixed-Device Survey Design: Nonresponse Bias and Models of Demographic Behavior. Methoden, Daten, Analysen, 9(2), 163-184.
- Wagner, James; Arrieta, Jennifer; Guyer, Heidi and Ofstedal, Mary Beth (2014). Does Sequence Matter in Multimode Surveys: Results from an Experiment. Field Methods, 26(2), 141-155.
- Wagner, James and Hubbard, Frost (2014). Producing Unbiased Estimates of Propensity Models during Data Collection. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 2(3), 323-342.
- Wagner, James and Lee, Sunghee (2014). Sampling Rare Populations. 77-104. In Johnson,Timothy (Ed.), Handbook of Health Survey Methods. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.:New Jersey.
- Lee, Sunghee; Wagner, James; Heeringa, Steven G. and Valliant, Richard L. (2014). Recent Developments of Sampling Hard-to-Reach Populuations: An Assessment. 424-444. In Tourangeau,Roger; Edwards,Brad; Johnson,Timothy; Wolter,Kirk and Bates,Nancy (Ed.), Hard-to-Survey Populations. Cambridge University Press:New York.
- Pennell, Beth-Ellen; Deshmukh, Y.; Kelley, P.; Maher, Mary P.; Wagner, James and Tomlin, D. (2014). Diaster Research: Surveying Displaced Populations. 111-133. In Tourangeau,Roger; Edwards,Brad; Johnson,Timothy; Wolter,Kirk and Bates,Nancy (Ed.), Hard-to-Survey Populations. Cambridge University Press:New York.
- Wagner, James; Valliant, Richard L.; Hubbard, Frost and Jiang, Li (2014). Level-of-Effort Paradata and Nonresponse Adjustment Models for a National Face-to-Face Survey. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 2(4), 410-432.
- Wagner, James (2013). Adaptive Contact Strategies in Telephone and Face-to-Face Surveys. Survey Research Methods, 7(1), 45-55.
- Wagner, James (2013). Using Paradata-Driven Models to Improve Contact Rates in Telephone and Face-to-Face Surveys. 145-170. In Kreuter,Frauke (Ed.), Improving Surveys with Paradata: Analytic use of Process Information. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.:New Jersey.
- Wagner, James; West, Brady T.; Kirgis, Nicole; Lepkowski, James M.; Axinn, William G. and Kruger Ndiaye, Shonda (2012). Use of Paradata in a Responsive Design Framework to Manage a Field Data Collection. Journal of Official Statistics, 28(4), 477-499.
- Wagner, James (2012). A Comparison of Alternative Indicators for the Risk of Nonresponse Bias. Public Opinion Quarterly, 76(3), 555-575.
- Kreuter, Frauke; Olson, K.; Wagner, James; Yan, Ting; Ezzati-Rice, T. M.; Casas-Cordero, C.; Lemay, M.; Peytchev, Andrey; Groves, Robert M. and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2010). Using Proxy Measures and Other Correlates of Survey Outcomes to Adjust for Non-Response: Examples from Multiple Surveys. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 173(2), 389-407.
- Wagner, James and Raghunathan, Trivellore E. (2010). A New Stopping Rule for Surveys. Statistics in Medicine, 29(9), 1014-1024.
- Wagner, James (2010). The Fraction of Missing Information as a Tool for Monitoring the Quality of Survey Data. Public Opinion Quarterly, 74(2), 223-243.