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| Posted by: | Jon Krosnick |
| Title/Position: | Professor |
| School/Organization: | Stanford University |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP, SPSSI, SESP |
| Date posted: | February 13th, 2008 |
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The American National Election Studies project (ANES; www.electionstudies.org) is seeking a Research Area Specialist Intermediate at the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Since 1948, the ANES has been conducting large national surveys at the time of every national election to allow scholars around the world to study what causes citizens to vote, to vote for a particular candidate, to participate in election campaigns in other ways, and much more (see www.electionstudies.org).
At present, the project is planning and implementing a 15-month panel study (via the Internet) and a pre-election/post-election panel study (via face-to-face interviewing).
ANES is funded by the National Science Foundation, with one of the largest grants in the social sciences, to generate huge datasets to be distributed free to all interested researchers inside and outside of academia.
We are seeking a researcher to join our highly motivated staff and to contribute to all aspects of running the ANES. We do data analysis and manuscript writing for publication. We design questionnaires. We receive and evaluate proposals from researchers (mostly professors and graduate students) suggesting particular research agendas to be pursued in the questionnaires, and we evaluate those proposals and provide feedback to the proposers, sometimes requesting proposal revisions. We test the functioning of questionnaires that will be administered via computers and orally to assure that they are effective measurement tools. We write study documentation and provide support to our large community of data users. And we edit data files, analyze data, conduct methodological research, supervise data collection firms, run a web site, manage a budget, and conduct administrative tasks, all for the purpose of advancing the scientific study of public opinion and political behavior.
Our new staff member will accomplish this work collaboratively with the study's Principal Investigators -- Arthur Lupia at Michigan and Jon Krosnick at Stanford -- professional staff, and research assistants.
The new staff member's work will include:
Working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team of researchers. Writing, editing, and reviewing questionnaires and their programming specifications. Testing computer implementation of questionnaires. Reviewing and analyzing data files using statistical software (SPSS, Stata, or SAS), conducting comparisons with other contemporaneous surveys. Monitoring panel survey sample composition over time. Preparing data files for public release. Writing, editing, and reviewing survey documentation and reports. Reviewing and designing methods for survey data collection. Managing and monitoring the activities of firms doing data collection. Supervising undergraduate research assistants. Managing administrative tasks for the project. Coauthoring journal articles for publication. Collaborating with ANES personnel at Stanford University.
Qualifications (desirable but not all required):
Master's or doctoral degree in a social science, statistics, or a related field. Experience conducting social science research, including a proficiency using statistical software (e.g., SPSS, SAS, or Stata). Experience planning and conducting surveys. Experience writing articles for academic journal publication. Expertise in one or more of the following areas: American politics, survey sampling, statistical data analysis, questionnaire design, research methodology, project management.
To apply:
Please apply through the University of Michgan Jobs web site, http://www.umich.edu/~jobs/. From the Michigan Jobs search page, enter 16025 in the Job ID search field to find the job listing and apply online by submitting your cover letter and resume or vita.
The University of Michigan is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
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