Please email Brady West (bwest@umich.edu) with citations for any research products generated using AFHS data!
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Wagner, J., West, B.T., Couper, M.P., Gatward, R., and Saw, H. (2022). An Experimental Evaluation of Two Approaches for Improving Response to Household Screening Efforts in National Mail/Web Surveys. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. DOI: 10.1093/jssam/smac024.
West, B.T., and McCabe, S.E. (2021). Choices Matter: How Response Options for Survey Questions about Sexual Identity Affect Population Estimates of its Association with Substance Use and Misuse. Field Methods, 33(4), 335-354.
West, B.T., Axinn, W.G., Couper, M.P., Gatny, H., and Schroeder, H. (2022). A Web-Based Event History Calendar Approach for Measuring Contraceptive Use Behavior. Field Methods, 34(1), 3-19.
Zhang, S., West, B.T., Wagner, J., Couper, M.P, Gatward, R., and Axinn, W.G. (2023). Visible cash, a second incentive, and priority mail? An experimental evaluation of mailing strategies for a screening questionnaire in a national push-to-web/mail survey. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. DOI: 10.1093/jssam/smac041.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Axinn, W.G., West, B.T., and Schroeder, H. (Under Review). Forced Intercourse in America: A Pandemic Update. Submitted to BMC Public Health, February 2023.
Saw, H., West, B.T., Couper, M.P., and Axinn, W.G. (Under Second Review). What predicts willingness to participate in a follow-up panel study among respondents to a national web/mail survey? Resubmitted to Field Methods, February 2023.
West, B.T., Couper, M.P., Axinn, W.G., Wagner, J., Gatward, R., Saw, H., and Zhang, S. (Under Review). A New Approach to Creating Population-Representative Data for Demographic Research. Submitted to Demography, December 2022.
West, B.T., Zhang, S., Wagner, J., Gatward, R., Saw, H., and Axinn, W.G. (Under Second Review). Methods for improving participation rates in national self-administered web/mail surveys: Evidence from the United States. Resubmitted to PLoS ONE, April 2023.
Zhang, S., West, B.T., Wagner, J., and Gatward, R. (Revise and Resubmit). Incorporating Adaptive Survey Design in a Two-Stage National Push-to-web/mail Survey: An Experiment in the American Family Health Study. Submitted to Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, February 2023.
PAPERS IN PREPARATION
Axinn, W.G., West, B.T., Schroeder, H., and Banchoff, E. (In Preparation). Pandemic Babies: The Social Organization of Daily Life, Sudden Disruptions to Social Activities, and National Evidence of Disruption of Trends in U.S. Fertility Behavior. Journal TBD, 2023.
Nishimura, R., Gatward, R., West, B.T., and Saw, H. (In Preparation). Examining Predictors of Unsuccessful Mail Delivery for a National Address-Based Sample in the Time of COVID-19. Journal TBD, 2023.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Axinn, W.G., West, B.T., and Schroeder, H.M. (2023). Forced Intercourse in America: A Pandemic Update. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, April 13, 2023, New Orleans, LA.
Axinn, W.G., Lindberg, L.D., and West, B.T. (2023). Pandemic Changes in U.S. Contraceptive Use: Nationally Representative Fertility Measures and Contraceptive Use Calendars. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, April 15, 2023, New Orleans, LA.
Axinn, W.G., West, B.T., Schroeder, H., and Banchoff, E. (2021). Pandemic Babies: The Social Organization of Daily Life, Sudden Disruptions to Social Activities, and National Evidence of Disruption of Trends in U.S. Fertility Behavior. Paper presented at the 2021 Pandemic Babies Conference, Berlin, Germany (Virtual), December 13-14, 2021.
Nishimura, R., Gatward, R., West, B.T., and Saw, H. (2021). USPS Mail Delivery Patterns for a National Address-Based Sample in the Time of COVID-19. Paper presented at the 2021 Virtual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR).
Nishimura, R. and West, B.T. (2023). The Implications of Weighting Adjustments for Sampling Variance Estimates. Abstract accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May 2023.
Saw, H., West, B.T., Couper, M.P., and Axinn, W.G. (2023). What predicts willingness to participate in a panel study among respondents to a national web/mail survey? Abstract accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May 2023.
West, B.T., Couper, M.P., Axinn, W.G., Gatny, H., and Schroeder, H. (2020). A Web-Based Event History Calendar Approach for Measuring Contraceptive Use Behavior. Paper presented at the 2020 virtual conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, November 20-21, 2020.
West, B.T., Wagner, J., Gatward, R., Saw, H., and Couper, M.P. (2021). An Experimental Evaluation of Three Approaches for Improving Response to Household Screening Efforts in National Mail/Web Surveys. Paper presented at the 2021 Virtual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR).
West, B.T., Couper, M.P, Axinn, W.G., Wagner, J., Gatward, R., Saw, H., and Zhang, S. (2021). A Methodological Evaluation of Using Web & Mail to Screen & Measure a National Probability Sample. Paper presented at the 2021 annual conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR).
West, B.T. (2022). A web-based event history calendar approach for measuring contraceptive use behavior. Invited talk presented virtually at the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) Workshop on Designing Event Histories for Online Surveys, January 25, 2022.
West, B.T., Couper, M.P., Axinn, W.G., Wagner, J., Gatward, R., Saw, H., and Zhang, S. (2022). Evaluating a Web/Mail Alternative to a National Face-to-Face Survey: Initial Results from the American Family Health Study. Paper presented at the 2022 Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), May 12, 2022, Chicago, IL.
Zhang, S., West, B.T., Wagner, J., Couper, M.P, and Gatward, R. (2022). Visible cash, a second incentive, and priority mail? An experiment in a national push-to-web/mail survey. Paper presented at the 2022 annual conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR).
West, B.T. (2023). Moving from a National Probability-Based Push-to-Web Survey to an Online Probability-Based Panel: What are the issues? Invited Keynote Presentation at the 2023 Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) Conference, Washington, DC, March 9, 2023.
Zhang, S., West, B.T., Wagner, J., Couper, M.P, Gatward, R., and Axinn, W.G. (2023). Visible cash, a second incentive, and priority mail? An experimental evaluation of mailing strategies for a screening questionnaire in a national push-to-web/mail survey. Abstract accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May 2023.