Courtney Kennedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4087829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Courtney Kennedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Courtney |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennedy |
| SIGNATURE | KENNEDY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7833-0320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 555 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Pilot randomized controlled trial of Embolden: A novel co-designed community-based intervention to enhance mobility in older adults
Introduction: Physical mobility and social participation are essential for maintaining independence and improving quality of life with aging. These are also interrelated, with barriers to mobility leading to social isolation, as well as poor physical and mental health. Most mobility-enhancing interventions in older adults have been designed by researchers without public input and delivered in controlled settings. This traditional approach to inte…
The Embolden study: Using intervention co-design to enhance physical and community mobility in older adults
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Strategies for Detecting Insincere Respondents in Online Polling
While the migration of public opinion surveys to online platforms has often lowered costs and enhanced timeliness, it has also created new vulnerabilities. Respondents completing the same survey multiple times from different IP addresses, overseas workers posing as Americans, and algorithms designed to complete surveys are among the threats that have emerged in this new era. This paper is an attempt to measure the prevalence of such respondents a…
Experimental Methods in Survey Research: Techniques that Combine Random Sampling with Random Assignment
Vignettes are short descriptions of real‐life situations that are employed in a survey to assess attitudes and intentions. In many studies, intentions are considered as approximations to actual behavior in real‐life situations. What different applications of vignettes have in common is the effort to adjust the vignettes to the reality of everyday life. Because of this closeness to reality, it is assumed that vignettes are less prone to socially d…
An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States
The 2016 presidential election was a jarring event for polling in the United States. Preelection polls fueled high-profile predictions that Hillary Clinton’s likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent, with estimates ranging from 71 to over 99 percent. When Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidency, there was a widespread perception that the polls failed. But did the polls fail? And if so, why? Those are among the cent…
Implications of Moving Public Opinion Surveys to a Single-Frame Cell-Phone Random-Digit-Dial Design
With the share of US adults living in households with cell phones climbing over 90 percent (Blumberg and Luke 2016), survey researchers are considering whether it is necessary to continue sampling landlines in addition to cell phones in RDD surveys. This transition raises a number of questions, including whether it will systematically change public opinion estimates, subgroup estimates, long-standing trends, as well as precision. To address these…
Use of Cognitive Shortcuts in Landline and Cell Phone Surveys
Journal Article Use of Cognitive Shortcuts in Landline and Cell Phone Surveys Get access Courtney Kennedy, Courtney Kennedy * *Address correspondence to Courtney Kennedy, Abt SRBI, 55 Wheeler Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen E. Everett Stephen E. Everett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion…
Research Synthesis: Aapor Report on Online Panels
Bias From Wireless Substitution in Surveys of Hispanics
Increasingly, American households are choosing to forgo ownership of landline telephones in favor of cell phones. Presently, more than 25% of Hispanics now only own a cell phone. Concern about potential bias from noncoverage of this “cell-only” population in traditional general population RDD (random digit dial) telephone interviewing has been a particular focus among the survey research community. Because Hispanics lead all ethnic and racial gro…
Cell-Phone-Only Voters in the 2008 Exit Poll and Implications for Future Noncoverage Bias
Amid growing concern about potential noncoverage bias in random digit dial survey samples that exclude cell phones, a national face-to-face exit poll provided an opportunity to reach November 2008 Election Day voters regardless of telephone status and to evaluate how the cell-only subgroup has changed since the 2004 election. The National Election Pool's survey found a sharp increase in cell-only incidence, comparable to trends for the general pu…
A "Brute Force" Estimation of the Residency Rate for Undetermined Telephone Numbers in an RDD Survey
In random digit dial (RDD) telephone surveys, some proportion of the sampled telephone numbers cannot definitively be classified as eligible or ineligible. Each call attempt to these numbers generally results in either a busy signal or a ring with no answer. According to the profession's standard definitions, the proportion of these unresolved numbers that are, in fact, eligible is known as “e” and should be accounted for in response rate calcula…
Evaluating the Effects of Screening for Telephone Service in Dual Frame RDD Surveys
The high costs and largely unknown error properties of cellular telephone interviews make screening for cell-only adults a potentially attractive option in dual frame RDD surveys. Screening out adults with landline telephones from the cellular sample does not affect the coverage properties of a dual frame survey, but it may affect other sources of error, especially nonresponse. In this study, data from a 2006 dual frame RDD survey conducted for t…
What's Missing from National Landline RDD Surveys: The Impact of the Growing Cell-Only Population
The number of cell phone only households has continued to grow - 12.8 percent of all households by the end of 2006, according to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). To assess the extent and nature of the potential bias in landline telephone samples created by the absence of cell-only households, the Pew Research Center conducted four independent dual frame studies in 2006, three of which included at least 200 interviews with cell-only re…
Gauging the Impact of Growing Nonresponse on Estimates from a National RDD Telephone Survey
Journal Article Gauging the Impact of Growing Nonresponse on Estimates from a National RDD Telephone Survey Get access Scott Keeter, Scott Keeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Courtney Kennedy, Courtney Kennedy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Dimock, Michael Dimock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan Best, Jona…
How Americans Responded: A Study of Public Reactions to 9/11/01
On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, a group of social scientists at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) gathered to consider how they might employ their talents to help the country after the shocking events of that morning. The group included economists, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, demographers, and survey methodologists. Based upon their previous research experience, each of them proposed hypotheses on asp…
Gauging the Impact of Growing Nonresponse on Estimates from a National RDD Telephone Survey
Journal Article Gauging the Impact of Growing Nonresponse on Estimates from a National RDD Telephone Survey Get access Scott Keeter, Scott Keeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Courtney Kennedy, Courtney Kennedy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Dimock, Michael Dimock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan Best, Jona…
Research Synthesis: Aapor Report on Online Panels
An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States
The 2016 presidential election was a jarring event for polling in the United States. Preelection polls fueled high-profile predictions that Hillary Clinton’s likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent, with estimates ranging from 71 to over 99 percent. When Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidency, there was a widespread perception that the polls failed. But did the polls fail? And if so, why? Those are among the cent…
What's Missing from National Landline RDD Surveys: The Impact of the Growing Cell-Only Population
The number of cell phone only households has continued to grow - 12.8 percent of all households by the end of 2006, according to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). To assess the extent and nature of the potential bias in landline telephone samples created by the absence of cell-only households, the Pew Research Center conducted four independent dual frame studies in 2006, three of which included at least 200 interviews with cell-only re…
Evaluating the Effects of Screening for Telephone Service in Dual Frame RDD Surveys
The high costs and largely unknown error properties of cellular telephone interviews make screening for cell-only adults a potentially attractive option in dual frame RDD surveys. Screening out adults with landline telephones from the cellular sample does not affect the coverage properties of a dual frame survey, but it may affect other sources of error, especially nonresponse. In this study, data from a 2006 dual frame RDD survey conducted for t…
How Americans Responded: A Study of Public Reactions to 9/11/01
On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, a group of social scientists at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) gathered to consider how they might employ their talents to help the country after the shocking events of that morning. The group included economists, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, demographers, and survey methodologists. Based upon their previous research experience, each of them proposed hypotheses on asp…
Strategies for Detecting Insincere Respondents in Online Polling
While the migration of public opinion surveys to online platforms has often lowered costs and enhanced timeliness, it has also created new vulnerabilities. Respondents completing the same survey multiple times from different IP addresses, overseas workers posing as Americans, and algorithms designed to complete surveys are among the threats that have emerged in this new era. This paper is an attempt to measure the prevalence of such respondents a…
Cell-Phone-Only Voters in the 2008 Exit Poll and Implications for Future Noncoverage Bias
Amid growing concern about potential noncoverage bias in random digit dial survey samples that exclude cell phones, a national face-to-face exit poll provided an opportunity to reach November 2008 Election Day voters regardless of telephone status and to evaluate how the cell-only subgroup has changed since the 2004 election. The National Election Pool's survey found a sharp increase in cell-only incidence, comparable to trends for the general pu…
Use of Cognitive Shortcuts in Landline and Cell Phone Surveys
Journal Article Use of Cognitive Shortcuts in Landline and Cell Phone Surveys Get access Courtney Kennedy, Courtney Kennedy * *Address correspondence to Courtney Kennedy, Abt SRBI, 55 Wheeler Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen E. Everett Stephen E. Everett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion…
Bias From Wireless Substitution in Surveys of Hispanics
Increasingly, American households are choosing to forgo ownership of landline telephones in favor of cell phones. Presently, more than 25% of Hispanics now only own a cell phone. Concern about potential bias from noncoverage of this “cell-only” population in traditional general population RDD (random digit dial) telephone interviewing has been a particular focus among the survey research community. Because Hispanics lead all ethnic and racial gro…
Implications of Moving Public Opinion Surveys to a Single-Frame Cell-Phone Random-Digit-Dial Design
With the share of US adults living in households with cell phones climbing over 90 percent (Blumberg and Luke 2016), survey researchers are considering whether it is necessary to continue sampling landlines in addition to cell phones in RDD surveys. This transition raises a number of questions, including whether it will systematically change public opinion estimates, subgroup estimates, long-standing trends, as well as precision. To address these…
A "Brute Force" Estimation of the Residency Rate for Undetermined Telephone Numbers in an RDD Survey
In random digit dial (RDD) telephone surveys, some proportion of the sampled telephone numbers cannot definitively be classified as eligible or ineligible. Each call attempt to these numbers generally results in either a busy signal or a ring with no answer. According to the profession's standard definitions, the proportion of these unresolved numbers that are, in fact, eligible is known as “e” and should be accounted for in response rate calcula…
How Americans Responded: A Study of Public Reactions to 9/11/01
On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, a group of social scientists at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) gathered to consider how they might employ their talents to help the country after the shocking events of that morning. The group included economists, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, demographers, and survey methodologists. Based upon their previous research experience, each of them proposed hypotheses on asp…
Gauging the Impact of Growing Nonresponse on Estimates from a National RDD Telephone Survey
Journal Article Gauging the Impact of Growing Nonresponse on Estimates from a National RDD Telephone Survey Get access Scott Keeter, Scott Keeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Courtney Kennedy, Courtney Kennedy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Dimock, Michael Dimock Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonathan Best, Jona…
Evaluating the Effects of Screening for Telephone Service in Dual Frame RDD Surveys
The high costs and largely unknown error properties of cellular telephone interviews make screening for cell-only adults a potentially attractive option in dual frame RDD surveys. Screening out adults with landline telephones from the cellular sample does not affect the coverage properties of a dual frame survey, but it may affect other sources of error, especially nonresponse. In this study, data from a 2006 dual frame RDD survey conducted for t…
What's Missing from National Landline RDD Surveys: The Impact of the Growing Cell-Only Population
The number of cell phone only households has continued to grow - 12.8 percent of all households by the end of 2006, according to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). To assess the extent and nature of the potential bias in landline telephone samples created by the absence of cell-only households, the Pew Research Center conducted four independent dual frame studies in 2006, three of which included at least 200 interviews with cell-only re…
A "Brute Force" Estimation of the Residency Rate for Undetermined Telephone Numbers in an RDD Survey
In random digit dial (RDD) telephone surveys, some proportion of the sampled telephone numbers cannot definitively be classified as eligible or ineligible. Each call attempt to these numbers generally results in either a busy signal or a ring with no answer. According to the profession's standard definitions, the proportion of these unresolved numbers that are, in fact, eligible is known as “e” and should be accounted for in response rate calcula…
Cell-Phone-Only Voters in the 2008 Exit Poll and Implications for Future Noncoverage Bias
Amid growing concern about potential noncoverage bias in random digit dial survey samples that exclude cell phones, a national face-to-face exit poll provided an opportunity to reach November 2008 Election Day voters regardless of telephone status and to evaluate how the cell-only subgroup has changed since the 2004 election. The National Election Pool's survey found a sharp increase in cell-only incidence, comparable to trends for the general pu…
Research Synthesis: Aapor Report on Online Panels
Bias From Wireless Substitution in Surveys of Hispanics
Increasingly, American households are choosing to forgo ownership of landline telephones in favor of cell phones. Presently, more than 25% of Hispanics now only own a cell phone. Concern about potential bias from noncoverage of this “cell-only” population in traditional general population RDD (random digit dial) telephone interviewing has been a particular focus among the survey research community. Because Hispanics lead all ethnic and racial gro…
Use of Cognitive Shortcuts in Landline and Cell Phone Surveys
Journal Article Use of Cognitive Shortcuts in Landline and Cell Phone Surveys Get access Courtney Kennedy, Courtney Kennedy * *Address correspondence to Courtney Kennedy, Abt SRBI, 55 Wheeler Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen E. Everett Stephen E. Everett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion…
An Evaluation of the 2016 Election Polls in the United States
The 2016 presidential election was a jarring event for polling in the United States. Preelection polls fueled high-profile predictions that Hillary Clinton’s likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent, with estimates ranging from 71 to over 99 percent. When Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidency, there was a widespread perception that the polls failed. But did the polls fail? And if so, why? Those are among the cent…
Implications of Moving Public Opinion Surveys to a Single-Frame Cell-Phone Random-Digit-Dial Design
With the share of US adults living in households with cell phones climbing over 90 percent (Blumberg and Luke 2016), survey researchers are considering whether it is necessary to continue sampling landlines in addition to cell phones in RDD surveys. This transition raises a number of questions, including whether it will systematically change public opinion estimates, subgroup estimates, long-standing trends, as well as precision. To address these…
Experimental Methods in Survey Research: Techniques that Combine Random Sampling with Random Assignment
Vignettes are short descriptions of real‐life situations that are employed in a survey to assess attitudes and intentions. In many studies, intentions are considered as approximations to actual behavior in real‐life situations. What different applications of vignettes have in common is the effort to adjust the vignettes to the reality of everyday life. Because of this closeness to reality, it is assumed that vignettes are less prone to socially d…
The Embolden study: Using intervention co-design to enhance physical and community mobility in older adults
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Strategies for Detecting Insincere Respondents in Online Polling
While the migration of public opinion surveys to online platforms has often lowered costs and enhanced timeliness, it has also created new vulnerabilities. Respondents completing the same survey multiple times from different IP addresses, overseas workers posing as Americans, and algorithms designed to complete surveys are among the threats that have emerged in this new era. This paper is an attempt to measure the prevalence of such respondents a…
Pilot randomized controlled trial of Embolden: A novel co-designed community-based intervention to enhance mobility in older adults
Introduction: Physical mobility and social participation are essential for maintaining independence and improving quality of life with aging. These are also interrelated, with barriers to mobility leading to social isolation, as well as poor physical and mental health. Most mobility-enhancing interventions in older adults have been designed by researchers without public input and delivered in controlled settings. This traditional approach to inte…
Psychology (12 works) · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Landline (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Phone (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Telephone survey (6 works) · Advertising (5 works)