James Wagner

Publications

• Couper, Mick P.; Gremel, Garret; Axinn, William G.; Guyer, Heidi; Wagner, James and West, Brady T. (2018). New Options for National Population Surveys: The Implications of Internet and Smartphone Coverage. Social Science Research.
• Wagner, James and Olson, Kristen (2018). An Analysis of Interviewer Travel and Field Outcomes in Two Field Surveys. Journal of Official Statistics, 34(1), 211-237.
• Schouten, Barry; Mushkudiani, Nino; Shlomo, Natalie; Durrant, Gabi; Lundquist, Peter and 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 and Stoop, Ineke A. L. (2018). Comparing Nonresponse and Nonresponse Biases in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts. Advances in Comparative Survey Methods, 807-833. In Johnson,Timothy P.; Pennell,Beth-Ellen; Stoop,Ineke A. L. and Dorer,Brita (Ed.), Advances in Comparative Survey Methods: Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (3MC). John Wiley & Sons:Hoboken, NJ.
• Wagner, James; Schroeder, Heather M.; Piskorowski, Andrew; Ursano, Robert J.; Stein, Murray B.; Heeringa, Steven G. and 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.
• Wagner, James; West, Brady T.; Guyer, Heidi; Burton, Paul; Kelley, Jennifer; Couper, Mick P. and 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. Total Survey Error in Practice, 155-178. In Biemer,Paul P.; De Leeuw,Edith D.; Eckman,Stephanie; Edwards,Brad; Kreuter,Frauke; Lyberg,Lars E.; Tucker,Clyde and West,Brady T. (Ed.), Total Survey Error in Practice. John Wiley & Sons:Hoboken, NJ.
• Lee, Sunghee; Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba; Wagner, James and 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. Journal of Official Statistics, 33(2), 335-366.
• Schouten, Barry; Peytchev, Andy and Wagner, James (2017). Adaptive Survey Design. Boca Raton, FL:CRC Press.
• McCarthy, Jaki; Wagner, James and Sanders, Herschel L. (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; Olson, Kristen and 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).
• Schouten, Barry; Cobben, Fannie; Lundquist, Peter and 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.
• Nishimura, Raphael; Wagner, James and Elliott, Michael R. (2016). Alternative Indicators for the Risk of Non-Response Bias: A Simulation Study. International Statistical Review, 84(1), 43-62.
• Laflamme, Francois and Wagner, James (2016). Responsive and Adaptive Designs. The SAGE Handbook of Survey Methodology, 397. In Wolf,Christof; Joye,Dominique; Smith,Tom W. and Fu,Yang-Chih (Ed.), Sage Handbook of Survey Methodology. Sage:New York.
• 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.