Professor Jon Krosnick (http://communication.stanford.edu/faculty/krosnick.html) has indicated to me that members of the Adult Development and Aging division of APA might be interested in receiving the below announcement (the one below my signature in this email). Would it be possible for you to send it to the PSYAGING-L listserv? We are very interested in their input.
Thanks, and best wishes, -Dave David Howell Director of Studies American National Election Studies (ANES)
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Subject: An Offer to Provide Free Data for Your Research (funded by NSF)
DEADLINE: June 15, 2006
We write today to tell you about an opportunity we are pleased to make available for you to collect data for your research at no cost to you, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Since 1948, the American National Election Studies have been conducting state-of-the-art multi-hour national panel survey interviews, face-to-face, in the homes of a representative sample of adults living in the US before and after each presidential election.
We are gearing up to do the same in 2007-2009, and we are pleased to be able to offer you the opportunity to get questions into our questionnaires to feed data to your own research program.
In order to have new questions included in the questionnaire either for our 21-wave panel study (to run from 2007 to 2009) or in our 2-wave panel study (to run in 2008), you will need to have empirical evidence showing that your new questions measure your constructs of interest as intended.
To help you to do this, NSF is funding a 45-minute telephone pilot survey, in which we can include your questions at no cost to you. The pilot study will reinterview a national sample of about 1,000 American adults who were interviewed both before and after the 2004 Presidential election, so we have a lot of data on these people already that can be provided to you.
Once you have analyzed the pilot data (which are often publishable in themselves), you can write a short proposal justifying the purpose of your questions for inclusion in either or both of our upcoming 21-wave and 2-wave panel surveys.
The ANES focus is on understanding the causes and consequences of citizens' decisions about whether or not to vote and about which candidate to vote for. If your research agenda can dovetail with these variables in any way, we would be delighted to help provide data to you.
For more information on the American National Election Studies, please visit our website at www.electionstudies.org. Especially relevant is the "Online Commons" (http://www.electionstudies.org/onlinecommons.htm), which is where you can post a proposal for items to be included in our pilot study. You may also want to look at some of the questionnaires used in our past surveys to get a feel for the sorts of questions we have typically asked (go to http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/download/datacenter.htm).
If you would like to join our listserv, so we can send you regular updates about ANES activities, please send an email to: anes@electionstudies.org
If you have questions about this, please don't hesitate to contact Jon Krosnick (Krosnick@stanford.edu) or Arthur Lupia (lupia@isr.umich.edu).
Sincerely,
Jon Krosnick
Principal Investigator, The American National Election Studies
Professor, Departments of Communication, Political Science, and Psychology
Stanford University
Arthur Lupia
Principal Investigator, The American National Election Studies
Research Professor, Institute for Social Research
Professor of Political Science
University of Michigan
