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
- 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 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.