CIPHER
Current Innovations in Probability- based Household Internet Panel Research
The annual CIPHER Conference provides a central meeting place for ongoing education and networking within the global research community. It is a venue for international researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to share lessons on developing, deploying, and using probability-based internet panel research across a range of fields and disciplines.
CIPHER is supported by funding from the Social Security Administration and the National Institute on Aging under grant U01AG077280.
PAST CIPHERS
Below you will find a description of our past events. Click on the conference year to access videos and agendas.
The sixth annual Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) Conference will be held jointly with the fifth annual Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) workshop. Both annual meetings concentrate on innovations in survey research and pairing them provides unique opportunities to broaden the scope of both.
In its fifth year, the annual Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) Conference again offered a forum for exchange, dissemination and learning. As in previous years, the focus of the conference was on population-representative probability-based online panels, which enable us to paint an in-depth portrait of how people in the United States and other countries are doing.
CIPHER’s fourth annual conference provided a venue for international researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers to share lessons on developing, deploying, and using probably-based internet panel research. Dr. Frauke Kreuter, Co-director of the Social Data Science Center (SoDa) and faculty member in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) at the University of Maryland, will present the keynote address on “Robustness in an Uncertain World.”
We held our third Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) conference to provide a platform for researchers to share challenges, opportunities, and successes. The third CIPHER conference was entirely virtual and took place on 4th and 5th March, 2021. Dr. Peter Lugtig, associate professor at the department of ‘Methods and Statistics’ at Utrecht University, presented keynote address on “What Internet panel surveys can learn from the design of smartphone-app studies.”
This year, we broadened the scope of the event to ensure inclusion of more international perspectives, and that voices from the policy, non-governmental and private sectors are more fully represented.
CIPHER 2020 focused on new approaches to the design of probability-based Internet and mixed-mode panels, their applications in research and policy, and the potential and challenges ahead. Presenters this year spoke about research using a range of online panels, including the Canada PROBIT panel, NORC’s AmeriSpeak panel, Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel, the Dutch LISS panel, the UK Understanding Society panel, and CESR’s Understanding America Study, amongst others.,
Our keynote speaker was Professor Annette Jäckle, Professor of Survey Methodology and Associate Director of Innovations for Understanding Society, University of Essex.
As online panels are rapidly becoming a familiar tool for research, the need to ensure high-quality, representative data collection and analysis is also increasingly clear. The first “Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER)” conference is organized by the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) of the University of Southern California and hosted by the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC) at the George Washington University on Thursday the 21st of February, 2019. Our keynote speaker was Courtney Kennedy, Director of Survey Research at the Pew Research Center.