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Jane Rafferty was a long time colleague at @rcgd-isr.bsky.social and most recently at @umpsid.bsky.social She was part of the fabric of @umisr.bsky.social and will be greatly missed.

The aging immune system and all-cause mortality in older americans: differences across sex and race/ethnicity - Immunity & Ageing Background As individuals age, the immune system undergoes complex changes, including an increase in the number of CD8 T cells relative to CD4 T cells, a decline in naïve cell production (including T ...

🧪Links btwn immune aging & mortality vary by sex & race/ethnicity: the strongest links are seen in Hispanic & Black females, but the lack of expected links in some subgroups, notably Black males, highlight the complexity of immune aging myumi.ch/g3rP6
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Kudoboard for Jane Rafferty | Kudoboard Kudoboard is an online replacement for the greeting card that you pass around and sign!

Jane Rafferty was a vital researcher behind the Program for Research on Black Americans at RCGD and part of the history of ISR, advancing social research and health equity. Condolences to her family and colleagues. #PRBA @um-src.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social ➡️ www.kudoboard.com/boards/fw50r...

Davis-Kean will discuss decreasing response rates, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, and new ideas for increasing response to surveys as well as the importance of sustaining data infrastructure for societal challenges in the future.

West will highlight a series of recent methodological enhancements in the long-running United States panel study known as the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), each of which demonstrate the types of evolution that are necessary for panel surveys to continue their scientific relevance.

Session: New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences - An Interdisciplinary Program for Survey Innovation in Germany 2 Panel Survey Innovation in a Time of (R)Evolution: The Case of the HRS. Brady West, Research Professor, Survey Research Center Opportunities and Challenges for the Future of Surveys. Pamela Davis-Kean, Director, Survey Research Center SRC at ESRA: https://myumi.ch/z9jDP

Tomorrow at #ESRA2025 conference at Utrecht University @bradytwest.bsky.social‬ & @pdakean.bsky.social will each discuss the challenges, evolution, and opportunities for surveys. myumi.ch/E86Qx

SRC at ESRA 2025 | Friday, July 18, 2025 9:00-10:30 – Noura Insolera (Presenting Author), 2024 Mixed Mode Contact Update in the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Room: Ruppert 011. 9:00-10:30 – Eva Leissou (Presenting Author), Paul Burton, Derek Dubuque, “Who would know how to reach you?” Making the case for “contact persons (CPs)” in longitudinal studies. Room: Ruppert 011. 9:00-10:30 – Yongchao Ma (Presenting Author), Stratification Method for Identifying Subgroups Requiring Different Survey Data Collection Strategies. Room: Ruppert Wit – 0.52. 11:00-12:30 – Brady West (Presenting Author), Panel Survey Innovation in a Time of (R)Evolution: The Case of the HRS. Room: Ruppert 042. 11:00-12:30 – Pamela Davis-Kean (Presenting Author), Opportunities and Challenges for the Future of Surveys. Room: Ruppert 042.

Check out Friday's schedule of SRC participants in the @esrasurvey.bsky.social 2025 conference. We have presentations on contact information in longitudinal studies, data collection strategies, panel survey innovations & the future of surveys. See our schedule of activities at #ESRA25 myumi.ch/z9jDP

The Impact of Making PreK Count on Short and Longer-Term Outcomes

Hot off the press! YPL's Robin Jacob and Catherine Asher published an article in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, "The Impact of Making PreK Count on Short and Longer-Term Outcomes."  Read more: youthpolicylab.umich.edu/research/jou... #earlymath #PreK

SRC at ESRA 2025 | Thursday, July 17 9:00-10:30 – Michael F. Schober (Presenting Author), Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch, Frederick G. Conrad, Rebecca S. Dolgin, Mao Li, Erik Zhou, Peilin Chen, Paul Beatty, Qualitative Insights from AI Summaries of Social Media Posts. Room: Ruppert 002. 1:45-3:00 – Jessica Daikeler (Presenting Author), Joachim Piepenburg, Barbara Binder, Henning Silber, Piggybacking Strategies in Survey Recruitment: The Role of Salience and Incentives in Cross-Sectional vs. Longitudinal Designs. Room: Ruppert A – 0.21. 2:00-3:00 – Frederick Conrad (Presenting Author), Capturing Public Opinion by Automatically Summarizing Social Media Posts. Room: Ruppert 002. 3:30-5:00 – Xinyi Chen (Presenting Author), Mao Li, Unveiling Satisficing in Textual Responses: Understanding Nonsense Response Patterns in Open-Ended Survey Questions. Room: Ruppert A – 0.21.

Check out Thursday's schedule of SRC participants in the @esrasurvey.bsky.social‬ 2025 conference. We have presentations on social media, survey recruitment strategies, and satisficing in textual responses. See our full schedule of activities at #ESRA25 myumi.ch/z9jDP

"Grocery stores who no longer get as much revenue from (food stamps) will cut back on staffing, hospitals without Medicaid may close or lay off health care workers. Those workers, in turn, will no longer spend as much at local restaurants, hardware stores, etc., prompting further job losses." USA Today, July 11, 2025 Robert Manduca, Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, Survey Research Center, Population Studies Center

Unlike claims that the new tax & spending bill will supercharge growth, the shrinking safety net could take a toll on local economies. @robertmanduca.bsky.social‬ from @umichstonecid.bsky.social says the impact will have rippling consequences myumi.ch/MkxAR @um-psc.bsky.social

50,000 years of evolutionary history of India: Impact on health and disease variation A genomic study of 2,762 individuals from India offers important insights into the genomic diversity and evolutionary history of the subcontinent and highlights the extensive genetic variation, gene f...

🧪Jennifer A. Smith was part of a team that generated whole-genome sequences from 2,762 individuals in India, which is underrepresented in genomic surveys, capturing the genetic diversity across most geographic regions, linguistic groups, and historically underrepresented communities myumi.ch/15gZJ

SRC at ESRA 2025 | Afternoon, Wednesday, July 16 2:00-3:00 – Mari Toomse-Smith, Erica Wong, Colter Mitchell, Jonathan Burton, Christine Woods, Shaun Scholes, Anne Conolly (Organizers), Session: New approaches to biomeasure collection in social surveys 2. Room: Ruppert 116. 3:00-4:00 – Caroline Poppa (Presenting Author), Désirée Nießen, Jessica Daikeler, Henning Silber, Bernd Weiß, David Richter, Poster: How Big of a Problem? Insights into the Prevalence of Publication Bias in Two Representative German Academic Panels (2012-2021). Room: Ruppert Ground Floor Hallway 4:00-5:30 – Brady West (Presenting Author), Heather Schroeder, Analyzing Potential Non-Ignorable Selection Bias in an Off-Wave Mail Survey Implemented in a Long-Standing Panel Study. Room: Ruppert 002. 4:00-5:30 – Thomas Crossley (Presenting Author), Jonathan Burton, Mick Couper, Annette Jäckle, Lewis Mitchell, Sandra Walzenbach, Can we nudge respondents to process data linkage consent requests more carefully? If so, does this increase consent in web surveys? Room: Ruppert 011. 4:00-5:30 – Sandra Walzenbach (Presenting Author), Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, Mick P. Couper, Annette Jäckle, Lewis Mitchell, A closer look: Eye-Tracking Insights into the Impact of Consent Request Wording and Layout. Room: Ruppert 011. 4:00-5:30 – Jim Vine (Presenting Author), Annette Jäckle, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, Mick P. Couper, Changes in Consent to Data Linkage across Survey Modes with Repeated Requests. Room: Ruppert 011. 4:00-5:30 – Çağla E. Yildiz (Presenting Author), Henning Silber, Jessica Daikeler, Fabienne Kraemer, Evgenia Kapousouz, Identifying Plausible and Implausible Straightlining: The Impact of Question Characteristics on Survey Response Behavior. Room: Ruppert D – 0.24.

...and more on biomeasures, publication bias, non-ignorable selection bias, data linkage consent, and the impact of question characteristics.

SRC ESRA 2025 | Afternoon, Wednesday, July 16 1:30-3:00 – Kaidar Nurumov (Presenting Author), Sunghee Lee, Adjustments for Response Styles in Multi-item Measurement Scales. Room: Ruppert D – 0.24. 1:30-3:00 – Joss Roßmann (Presenting Author), Sebastian Lundmark, Henning Silber, Tobias Gummer, Evaluating Attentiveness Measures in Survey Research: Experimental Insights from the German Internet Panel and Swedish Citizen Panel. Room: Ruppert D – 0.24. 1:45-3:00 – Mao Li, Xinyi Chen (Presenting Author), Zeyu Lou, Kaidar Nurumov, Stephanie Morales, Sunghee Lee, Using Large Language Models to Predict Subjective Life Expectancy in the Context of Cross-Cultural Surveys: Insights into Cognitive Biases and Response Quality. Room: Ruppert 002. 1:45-3:00 – Brady West, James Wagner (Organizers), Optimizing Follow-up: Innovations in Case Prioritization, Non-response Follow-up, and Following Movers. Room: Ruppert B – 0.22. 1:45-3:00 – James Wagner (Presenting Author), Andy Peytchev, Xinyu Zhang, Using Statistical Models to Inform Responsive and Adaptive Survey Designs: Evaluation of Modeling Approaches and Predictors. Room: Ruppert B – 0.22. 1:45-3:00 – Sergio D. Martinez-Martinez (Presenting Author), Heather M. Schroeder, Evanthia Leissou, Brady T. West, Responsive survey design strategies for difficult cases in a longitudinal panel study: The case of the 2022 Health and Retirement Study. Room: Ruppert B – 0.22.

The afternoon's presentations include papers on adjustments for response styles, attentiveness measures, large language models, statistical models, responsive design strategies...

SRC at ESRA 2025 | Morning, Wednesday, July 16 9:00-10:30 – Chendi Zhao (Presenting Author), Brady T. West, Abdelaziz Adawe, Understanding the Variability in Post-Survey Interviewer Observations in a National Panel Survey: Evidence from Health and Retirement Study. Room: Ruppert 0.33. 9:00-10:30 – Mari Toomse-Smith, Erica Wong, Colter Mitchell, Jonathan Burton, Christine Woods, Shaun Scholes, Anne Conolly (organizers), Session: New approaches to biomeasure collection in social surveys. Room: Ruppert 116. 9:00-10:30 – Jessica Faul (Presenting Author), The effect of returning results on consent to medical history and record linkage in the Health and Retirement Study. Room: Ruppert 116. 9:00-10:30 – Colter Mitchell, Making Neuroimaging Research More Generalizable: Factors Related to Participation in Neuroimaging Research. Room: Ruppert 116. 9:00-10:30 – Deji Suolang (Presenting Author), Brady West, Assessing the Generalizability of Imputation-Based Integration of Wearable Sensor Data and Survey Self-Reports: Insights From a Simulation Study. Room: Ruppert Wit – 0.52. 11:00-12:30 – Brady West (Presenting Author), Chendi Zhao, Heather Schroeder, Paul Burton, Eva Leissou, Andrew Hupp, The Effects of Alternative Mixed-Mode Household Screening Protocols and Invitation Letter Envelope Types on Participant Recruitment: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study. Room: Ruppert 042.

Tomorrow is a busy day at the @esrasurvey.bsky.social‬ 2025 conference. This morning SRC researchers are presenting on post-survey observations, biomeasures, neuroimaging, wearable sensor data & mixed-mode household screening protocols. See our full schedule of activities at #ESRA25 myumi.ch/z9jDP

When Helping Helps: Benefits of Daily Advice Provision on Mood Among Older Adults with Life Problems AbstractObjectives. Older adults may benefit from providing support to others, but experiencing life problems may undermine their ability to provide certai

Sibo Gao, Kira S Birditt, Karen L Fingerman find that providing advice and support to friends and family is beneficial to older adults, even as their resources are tested by multiple life problems.

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🧪Using responses from Health and Retirement Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Ken Langa & coauthors find informant rating of a person's memory & daily functioning is generally reliable, but depends significantly on how often they see each other myumi.ch/3RgWp

SRC at ESRA 2025 | Tuesday, July 15 9:00-10:30 – Yongchao Ma (Presenting Author), Michael Traugott, Survey Attitudes and Privacy Concerns: Measurement Invariance across Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. Room: Ruppert 005. 9:00-10:30 – Piotr Dworak (Presenting Author), Designing a Web Survey Experience for Adolescents: Lessons Learned From Caregiver And Adolescent Participation In The 2024 Panel Study of Income Dynamics Child Development Supplement Study. Room: Ruppert 040. 9:00-10:30 – Arie Kapteyn (Presenting Author), Htay-Wah Saw, Marco Angrisani, Analyzing the causal effect of survey burden on nonresponse in probability-based online panels among new panel respondents. Room: Ruppert 0.33. 9:00-10:30 – Andrew Hupp (Presenting Author), Lauren Guggenheim, David Howell, Wen Change, Makenna Harrison. Video interviewing for survey data collection: beyond the pandemic. Room: Ruppert 042. 9:00-10:30 – Lauren Guggenheim (Presenting Author), Andrew Hupp, Nicholas Valentino, A Quality Comparison of Live Video Interviewing to Web and Face-to-Face using ANES Data. Room: Ruppert 042. 11:00-12:00 – Sven Stadtmüller (Presenting Author), Henning Silber, Increasing respondents’ survey literacy: A knowledge intervention to detect misleading survey results. Room: Ruppert 119. 11:00-12:15 – Arie Kapteyn (Presenting Author), Htay-Wah Saw, Bas Weerman, Measuring Air Quality with Wearable Devices. Ruppert 002. 11:00-12:30 – Désirée Nießen (Presenting Author), Caroline Poppa, Jessica Daikeler, Henning Silber, Bernd Weiß, David Richter, Prevalence and Actor-Dependent Risk Factors of Publication Bias in the Social Sciences: Evidence from Two Probabilistic Panel Survey. Theatre Megaron. 1:45-3:00 – Joshua Claassen, Marco Angrisani, Frederick Conrad, Arie Kapteyn, Florian Keusch (organizers), Session: Exploring Agent-based Interviewing in Web Surveys. Room: Ruppert D – 0.24.

Check out Tuesday's schedule of SRC participants in the @esrasurvey.bsky.social‬ 2025 conference. We have presentations on privacy concerns, survey experience for teens, video interviewing, wearables, and more. See our full schedule of activities at #ESRA25 myumi.ch/z9jDP

The @esrasurvey.bsky.social‬ 2025 conference started today at Utrecht University in Utrecht, The Netherlands and will continue through Friday. SRC researchers have a large presence: Check out our full schedule of activities at #ESRA25 myumi.ch/z9jDP

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliate Amanda Sonnega in Aging & Mental Health

The protective effects of psychological resilience on fall risk

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Attitudes Toward Government Supports for Older Adults in the U.S. (1984–2022) Roughly 10,000 older adults turn 65 each day, an age which many people start to rely more on government supports to help meet their needs. In the United States, programs for older adults receive st...

Using data from the 1984 to 2022 General Social Survey. Adriana M. Reyes & @spattersearch.bsky.social‬ attitudes towards gov't spending on Social Security & retirement remain positive, but adults aged 65+ are less likely to support this spending than younger adults myumi.ch/MkxZ5

“Consumer views are still broadly consistent with an economic slowdown and an increase in inflation to come.” Adweek July 7, 2025 Joanne Hsu, Surveys of Consumers, Survey Research Center

@adweek.bsky.social‬ points out trends for marketers during the 4 day Amazon Prime sale event, the first of which is consumer anxiety. Joanne Hsu, Surveys of Consumers, says, "Consumer views are still broadly consistent with an economic slowdown and an increase in inflation to come." myumi.ch/E86Z2

The protective effects of psychological resilience on fall risk Falling in later life contributes to significant declines in wellbeing. Psychological resilience (PR) has not been evaluated as a key feature of falls and how they affect older people.Our sample of...

Psychological resilience is related to fewer falls among older adults at higher risk, but falls erode erode that resilience and can lead to more falls myumi.ch/Mkxnp

A new working paper from @umichstonecid.bsky.social/SRC researcher @robertmanduca.bsky.social examining the geography of social transfer programs & implications for cuts to Medicaid & SNAP in the recently signed federal budget.

Also see: equitablegrowth.org/medicaid-and...

Cumulative loneliness and memory function among US older adults: the role of depressive symptoms AbstractBackground. This study aimed to investigate whether depressive symptoms mediate the association between cumulative loneliness and memory function d

Using the Health and Retirement Study, SRC and ‪@um-psc.bsky.social‬ researchers find that depressive symptoms may be a mechanism through which cumulative loneliness negatively affects memory function among middle-aged & older adults myumi.ch/3Rgrw

@pdakean.bsky.social: "We are very excited abt this new partnership w/the City of New York. We look forward to our collaboration with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to uphold the highest quality & best practices for innovative research to benefit the New York City community."

Urban street scene illustration with a data collection message. "Better data collection means stronger, more equitable housing policies for NYC. NYCHVS New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey."

The Survey Research Center is partnering with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development to conduct the 2026 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey. SRC's Survey Research Operations will lead the data collection and @icpsr.bsky.social will house the data. myumi.ch/2rxjp

America’s Top Consumer-Sentiment Economist Is Worried University of Michigan’s Joanne Hsu can tell US households are in a foul mood. Is anyone listening?

Founded in 1946 by University Of Michigan Department Of Psychology’s George Katona, the Surveys of Consumers is both an important economic indicator and a vital voice for consumers. myumi.ch/D8z1D

Socioeconomic status and academic achievement: Developmental pathways through parenting and children’s executive functions The influences of child, family, and socioeconomic factors on children’s early academic development are best understood within the context of one anot…

🔔 Excited to share this new article led by Nicholas Waters and co-authored with Sammy Ahmed on SES and academic achievement www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“A whole lot of businesses in a really wide range of industries, from local restaurants to construction companies to specialized manufacturing companies are going to see a hit to their bottom line as a result of the cuts.” Nature, 6/25/2025 Jason Owen-Smith, Institute for Research on Innovation and Science, Survey Research Center

And people and businesses outside of academic institutions are also impacted, "A whole lot of businesses in a really wide range of industries...are going to see a hit to their bottom line as a result of the cuts."

The economic effects of federal cuts to US science — in 24 graphs Is US science facing a recession? Growing evidence points to a looming downturn.

Federal cuts to research institutions have ripple effects beyond laboratories and classrooms. Jason Owen-Smith estimates that federal grants support 646,000 researchers, 48% of whom are students and trainees. myumi.ch/n1DMd