Eleanor Singer

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University of Michigan
Institute for Social Research
Survey Research Center
Research ScientistAppointed: 194

Mailing Address

Survey Research Center
304 ISR
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1248
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (734) 647-4599
Fax: (734) 764-8263
elsinger@umich.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., Columbia University, Sociology, 1966.

Expertise and Research Interests

Research focuses on survey methodology and public opinion.

Other Expertise

1) Social Science Analyst, U.S. Bureau of the Census. 2) Editor (1975-1986) and Advisory Committee (1987-1993), Public Opinion Quarterly. 3) Vice-President and President-Elect (1986-1987), President (1987-1988), Associate Standards Chair(1994-1995), and Chair (1995-1996), American Association for Public Opinion Research. 4) Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality, American Statistical Association (1990-present). 5) Panel on Confidentiality and Data Access, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences (1989-1993). 6) Advisory Review Committee, American Foundation for AIDS Research (1988-present). 7) Advisory Board, ZUMA, Mannheim, Germany (1987-present). 8) Editorial Board, Mass Communications Review Yearbook (1984-1988). 8) Consultant, International Institute for Education (1984-1989) and Foreign Policy Association (1980-1984). 9) Member of delegation of public opinion researchers to U.S.S.R. (1990).

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Biotechnology, Health Care, Public Opinion, Public Policy, Social Sciences, Sociology, Statistics, Surveys and Survey Research.

Additional Terms:

Attitudes, Biotechnology, Confidentiality, Disease, Genome Technology, Health Care, Heredity, Household Behavior, Nonresponse, Policy, Proposal Development, Public Attitudes, Public Opinion, Public Policy, Questionnaire Design, Questionnaire Nonresponse, Questionnaire Privacy, Survey Confidentiality, Survey Methodology, Survey Participation, Survey Response, Telephone Interviewing.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

French: (Fluent, Functional, Basic)
German: (Functional, Basic, Fluent)

Memberships

American Association for Public Opinion Research
American Sociological Association
American Statistical Association

Honors and Awards

1996, American Association for Public Opinion Research Award
1985, American Association for Public Opinion Research Award

Previous Positions

1978-1994, Senior Research Associate, Columbia University
1975-1977, Senior Research Associate, University of Chicago, National Opinion Research Center
1973-1975, Research Associate, Columbia University
1970-1972, Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Funding Received

  • U.S. HHS-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Michigan Center for Excellence in Health Statistics, UM ID# 00-0011, 9/30/99 to 9/29/02.
  • U.S. Labor, Department of: Design of a Respondent-Friendly Diary for the Consumer Expenditure Survey, UM ID# 96-0303, 9/15/95 to 5/15/96.
  • U.S. National Science Foundation: Survey Respondents' Reactions to Persuasion: Ethical Valuations and Behavioral Response, UM ID# 98-0283, 9/1/97 to 8/31/98.
  • U.S. National Science Foundation: Survey Respondent's Reactions to Persuasion Attempts, UM ID# 95-2161, 9/1/95 to 2/28/98.
  • U.S. National Science Foundation: Survey Respondents' Reactions to Persuasion: REU, UM ID# 96-0950, 9/1/95 to 2/28/97.
  • U.S. National Science Foundation: Attitude Change in Response to Advances in Genetic Technology, UM ID# 96-1967, 8/1/96 to 7/31/98.
  • U.S. Commerce, Department of, Other: IPA Agreement, UM ID# 97-0508, 8/1/96 to 4/1/97.
  • U.S. National Science Foundation: Attitude Change in Response to Advances in Genetic Technology/REU Supplement, UM ID# 97-0647, 8/1/96 to 7/31/97.
  • U.S. Labor, Department of: Redesign of the Food Away From Home Section of the Consumer Expenditure Diary Survey (Task Order #M4), UM ID# 95-3262, 7/10/95 to 3/15/96.
  • Johnson, Robert Wood, Foundation: Genetic Technology and Health: Knowledge, Attitudes, Valuesand Behavior, UM ID# 99-0173, 6/1/99 to 5/31/01.
  • U.S. HHS National Institutes of Health: Engaging Minority Communitiesin Genetics Policy Making, UM ID# 98-2412, 5/1/99 to 11/30/01.
  • Johnson, Robert Wood, Foundation: Genetic Technology and Health: Proposal for a Developmental Study, UM ID# 97-2566, 5/1/97 to 10/31/98.
  • Urban Institute, The: Design, Oversight and Analysis of Nonresponse-Related Substudies of the Assessing the New Federalism Study, UM ID# 97-3367, 3/1/97 to 12/31/98.
  • Urban Institute, The: Design, Oversight, and Analysis of Nonresponse-Related Substudies of the Assessing New Federalism Study, UM ID# 98-0805, 3/1/97 to 4/30/98.
  • U.S. Commerce, Department of, Other: IPA Agreement, UM ID# 95-1564, 12/1/94 to 3/31/96.
  • U.S. Commerce, Department of, Other: Experimenting with SSN Requests and Different Notifications During Census 2000, UM ID# 99-0428, 11/17/98 to 11/30/00.
  • Commerce, Department of-Bureau of the Census: Consultation for Census Privacy Research, UM ID# 02-0692, 10/1/01 to 7/15/02.
  • "Health and Human Services, Department of-National Institutes of Health": Beliefs About Genes & Environment as Causes of Behavior, UM ID# 04-3955, 09/30/2004 to 05/31/2005.
  • Health and Human Services, Department of-National Institutes of Health: Framing Effects in Causal Attributions of Behavior, UM ID# 06-1171, 09/01/2006 to 7/31/2008.
  • Health and Human Services, Department of-National Institutes of Health: Beliefs About Genes: Environment as Causes of Behavior, UM ID# 03-0061, 03/05/2003 to 05/31/2005.

Publications

  • With M. Couper and N. Mathiowetz, Related households, mail handling, and returns to the 1990 U.S. Census, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 172-177, 1995
  • With D. Von Thurn and E. Miller, Confidentiality assurances and survey response: A review of the experimental literature, Public Opinion Quarterly, 59, 266-277, 1995
  • With P. Endreny, Reporting on risk: How the mass media portray accidents, diseases, disasters, and other hazards, Risk, 261-270, Summer 1994
  • With P. Endreny, Reporting on Risk, 1993
  • With N. Mathiowetz and M. Couper, The role of privacy and confidentiality as factors in response to the 1990 Census, Public Opinion Quarterly, 57, 465-482, 1993

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