Assistant Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research and Intermittent Lecturer in Biostatistics, School of Public Health

Biography
Z. Tuba Suzer Gurtekin is an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Her research includes managing monthly surveys of consumer attitudes, expectations and behavior. Her published research focuses on methods to quantify nonresponse and measurement survey errors in probability and nonprobability sample surveys, and mixed-mode survey design and inference. Her research experience has included development of alternative sample, methodology and questionnaire designs, data collection and analysis methods for a general population in parallel survey modes. She also teaches Survey Sampling for Clinical Research at the University of Michigan’s Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis program (OJOC CRDSA).
Projects
Publications
- Suwanabol, Pasithorn A.; Reichstein, Ari C.; Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba; Forman, Jane; Silveira, Maria J.; Mody, Lona; Morris, Arden M. (2018). Surgeons’ Perceived Barriers to Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Mixed Methods Study of a Surgical Society. Journal of palliative medicine, 21(6), 780-788.
- Lee, Sunghee; Fredriksen-Goldsen, Karen I.; McClain, Colleen; Kim, Hyun-Jun; Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba (2018). Are Sexual Minorities Less Likely to Participate in Surveys? An Examination of Proxy Nonresponse Measures and Associated Biases with Sexual Orientation in a Population-based Health Survey. Field Methods, 30(3), 208-224.
- Lee, Sunghee; Keusch, Florian; Schwarz, Norbert; Liu, Mingnan; Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba (2018). Cross-cultural Comparability of Response Patterns of Subjective Probability Questions. 455-475. 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).
- Leeuw, Edith D.; Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba; Hox, Joop J. (2018). The Design and Implementation of Mixed-mode Surveys. 385-408. In Johnson, Timothy P.; Pennell, Beth-Ellen; Stoop, Ineke A. L.; Dorer, Brita (Ed.)
- Liu, Mingnan; Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba; Keusch, Florian; Lee, Sunghee (2018). Response Styles in Cross-cultural Surveys. 477-499. 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).
- Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba; Valliant, Richard L.; Heeringa, Steven G.; Leeuw, Edith D. (2018). Mixed-mode Surveys: Design, Estimation, and Adjustment Methods. 409-430. 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).
- Raj, Minakshi; Choi, Sung Won; Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba; Platt, Jodyn (2017). Improving the Informed Consent Process in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Patient, Caregiver, and Provider Perspectives. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 24(1), 156-162.
- Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba; Lee, Sunghee; Lepkowski, James M. (2017). Comments on “Apples to Oranges or Gala versus Golden Delicious? Comparing Data Quality of Non-Probability Internet Samples to Low Response Rate Probability Samples”. Public opinion quarterly, 81, 243-245.
- 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.
- Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba; ElKasabi, Mahmoud; Liu, Mingnan; Lepkowski, James M.; Curtin, Richard T.; McBee, Rebecca (2016). Effect of a pre-paid incentive on response rates to an Address-Based Sampling (ABS) Web-Mail survey. Survey Practice, 9(4).
- Elkasabi, Mahmoud; Suzer-Gurtekin, Z. Tuba; Lepkowski, James M.; Kim, Uiyoung; Curtin, Richard T. and McBee, Rebecca (2014). A Comparison of ABS Mail and RDD Surveys for Measuring Consumer Attitudes. International Journal of Market Research, 56(6), 737-756.