Publications and Conference Papers

Young, C. (2010). Polling on Fuzzy Issues like Healthcare: Some Suggestions from the Trenches. Amerian Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) 65th Annual Conference, Chicago.

Young, C. and Garman, C. (2010). The Unpredictability of Pundits and Predictable Elections: Using public opinion to predict political disputes. World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) 63rd Annual Conference, Chicago.

Allum, N., Sturgis, P. and Smith, P. (2010) Evaluation of Guessing in Political Knowledge Quizzes. May 2010, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) 65th Annual Conference, Chicago.

Sturgis, P., Smith, P., Duffy, R. and Roberts, C. (2010) Happy! Or can’t get no satisfaction?: Concept equivalence in the measurement of subjective well-being. May 2010, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) 65th Annual Conference, Chicago.

Zelin, A. (2010). Minimising fieldwork costs in national random door-to-door surveys. Ipsos MORI working paper. May 2010, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), Chicago.

Smith, P., Pickering, K., Williams, J. and Hay, R. (2010) The Efficacy of Focused Enumeration. April 2010, Seminar on special issues in sampling ethnic minorities and migrants, Royal Statistical Society, London.

Sturgis, P. and Smith, P. (2010) Assessing the Validity of Generalized Trust Questions: What kind of trust are we measuring? International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 72-92.

Dayan, Y. and Farrer, N. (2009) A Structured Approach for Reducing Bias in Surveys Using Online Access Panels. October 2009, WRRS Valencia. Awarded the 'President's Award for the paper that aroused the most interest.'

Dayan, Y., Schofield Paine, C. and Johnson, AJ. (2009) Responding to sensitive questions in surveys: A comparison of results from online panels, face-to-face, and self-completion interviews. World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR).

Sturgis, P., Choo, M. and Smith, P. (2009) Response Order, Party Choice, and Evaluations of the National Economy: A Survey Experiment. Survey Research Methods, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 7-12.

Smith, P. (2009) Survey research: two types of knowledge. International Journal of Market Research, Vol.51, Issue 6, pp. 719-721.

Johnson, AJ., Mills, J. and Dayan, Y. (2008) You're the boss! Time to place the respondent at the forefront of our survey design. International Journal of Market Research, Vol. 50, Issue 5: Web 2.0 Special Issue, pp. 698-701.

Sturgis, P., Allum, N. and Smith, P. (2008) An Experiment on the Measurement of Political Knowledge in Surveys. Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol 72, Issue 1, pp. 90-102.

Sturgis, P. and Smith, P. (2008) Fictitious Issues Revisited: political knowledge, interest, and the generation of nonattitudes. Political Studies, Vol. 58, Issue 1, pp. 66-84.

Dayan, Y. and Burnett, J. (2007) Active People Survey: Small Area Estimates. Ipsos MORI Technical report.

Zelin, A. and Stubbs, R. (2005) Cluster Sampling: A False Economy. International Journal of Market Research. Vol. 47, Issue 5, pp. 503-524 (MRS Silver Medal winner, 2006).

Duffy, R. (2003) Response order effects - how do people read? International Journal of Market Research.