We’re excited to announce that CIPHER 2025 will be held at USC’s Capital Campus in Washington, D.C. on February 26 – 28.

In its seventh year, the Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) Conference continues to be the leading event for discussion, exchange, and learning about probability panels. The event again will bring together researchers and policy-makers from the United States and beyond for a wide-ranging conversation about innovations, challenges, and opportunities in this field.

 

Location and Format

The joint conference will take place February 26 – 28 at USC’s Capital Campus in Washington D.C. The preliminary program is as follows:

  • February 26: UAS Data Use Workshop
  • February 27: CIPHER and Reception
  • February 28: CIPHER

David Dutwin, Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Chief Scientist of AmeriSpeak at NORC at the University of Chicago, will be delivering the keynote on transparency in survey research.

 

Conference Focus

As in previous years, the conference will focus on the innovations, challenges, and opportunities of population-representative probability-based online panels.

This year’s call for papers focuses on the following areas:

  • Transparency and best practices in probability-based panel recruitment and retention;
  • Survey methodology and practice;
  • Experiments;
  • Data management and linkages;
  • Developments and analysis techniques;
  • Applications of research;
  • Combination of wearable devices data with self-reports;
  • Contextual data;
  • Naturally occurring data; and
  • Machine learning.

 

UAS Data Use Workshop

In 2025, CIPHER will again offer the Understanding American Study (UAS) data use workshop. This is a half-day workshop for those interested in learning more about the UAS panel and its data and data products. The UAS is a probability-based online panel of over 15,000 respondents in the US, managed by the Center for Economic and Social Research at USC.

 

Conference Registration and Fees

CIPHER is free to attend in-person or virtually, but registration is required. To register for CIPHER and/or the UAS Data Use Workshop, please complete this form.

 

Call for Papers and Call for Panels Submission Guidelines

Proposals for papers are invited from all sectors in the field and will be evaluated by the Conference Scientific Committee. The following guidelines apply:

  • All submissions must focus on methodological or analytical aspects of probability-based internet panels;
  • Innovative or interactive formats are encouraged;
  • Please indicate in the submission if you will join in person or virtually; and
  • Submissions must include a 250-word abstract.

The deadline for paper proposals is November 1, 2024. The results of this call for proposals will be announced in December 2024.

To submit a paper, please complete this form.

To submit a panel, please complete this form.

 

Scientific Committee

Arie Kapteyn, Jill Darling, Marco Angrisani, and Francisco Perez-Arce (USC Center for Economic and Social Research); and Jan Karem Höhne (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover).

 

Sponsorship

CIPHER is supported by funding from the Social Security Administration and the National Institute on Aging under grant U01AG077280.

 

Closed Captioning will be available.

For questions, please email Tarra Kohli (tkohli@usc.edu; d-cipher@usc.edu).