[ Academia ]

Knowledge Networks conducts both cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys for a broad spectrum of academics – economists, political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, health researchers, etc. – who require high-quality survey data.  Projects range from one-time surveys, to multiple waves with cross-sectional samples, to longitudinal surveys spanning several waves across a couple of years.  The samples may draw from the general population or from those meeting certain demographic requirements, health characteristics, or other unique criteria.  Some researchers require a few hundred or several thousand interviews with a nationally representative sample (see, for example, the Annenberg National Health Communication Survey), while others focus on particular geographic regions or even state-level populations (from states with larger populations).  Researchers' designs often require additional features, such as random assignment of sample to different treatments, audio and/or video integrated into surveys, measurement of item response time at the millisecond level, or the inclusion of Spanish-language survey-takers (to be fully representative of U.S. Latinos). Academics may supplement their surveys via KN's qualitative research capabilities, including online focus groups or town hall meetings, video questions and answers, moderated probing, and in-depth telephone interviews.

Professors and students may be able to conduct surveys with KnowledgePanel for free, through the TESS (Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences) Program, which is funded by the National Science Foundation.  To do so, submit a 5-page proposal to TESS (http://tess.experimentcentral.org/) for a survey that incorporates an experimental design.  Recipients may supplement their TESS funding at a special competitive price offered for TESS-approved studies.

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• Press Articles Citing KnowledgePanel Data – 2008-2011 - .pdf

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• JSM Presentations
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DiSogra, KN Chief Statistician, receives 2010 APHA Statistics Section Industry Award KN's Chief Statistician, Charles DiSogra, has been conferred the 2010 APHA (American Public Health Association) Statistics Section Industry Award. It recognizes outstanding contributions to public health and statistics from members employed in industry, and in particular, Charles' contributions to survey methods with Knowledge Networks – in terms of improving statistical methods in public health. The Awards Luncheon took place at the APHA Annual Meeting on Tuesday, November 9, in Denver, Colorado.

 

KN in Rand / CDC Report on H1N1 JAMA has covered two articles by Katherine Harris of RAND et al, citing findings from their studies for the CDC: Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Health-Care Personnel – U.S., 2010-11 Influenza Season Interim Results: Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent and Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Health-Care Personnel – U.S., Aug. 2009-Jan. 2010 The New England Journal of Medicine (12/2/10 issue) featured an article by Katherine Harris of RAND et al citing the 2009 article on H1N1 vaccine update. The alarming statistic is that less than half of all adults were willing to get vaccinated at the outset of the pandemic. Read our interview with Katherine Harris. In April 2010, The New York Times ran two articles on it: "Prevention: More Health Care Workers Got Flu Shots This Season" mentioned that roughly half of hospital workers received the H1N1 vaccine "They Should Know Better," which also focused on this fact (only half of this group was inoculated)

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS-KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS 2010 MID-TERM ELECTION POLLS copyright Michael Albright Dreamstime.com Democrats Split Over Handing Obama 2012 Nomination – Boston.com, 10/30/10 (AP-KN Poll) Those Craving for Change Now Look to the GOP, Oct. 17, 2010

 

AP-YAHOO! NEWS ELECTION SURVEYS CONDUCTED BY KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS Photos © Daniel Raustadt I Dreamstime.com In the run-up to the 2008 presidential election and afterward, Associated Press and Yahoo! News published polls about voter reactions to the presidential candidates using KnowledgePanel®, as did Associated Press in collaboration with Knowledge Networks. Widespread coverage of results ran for more than a year, from November 2007 to November 2008; it was featured in thousands of newspaper, radio, television and online reports about the 2008 election including on the CBS Evening News, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and NPR. See more | Full poll results | Full poll methodology and data

 

FEATURED PRESS RELEASES AND liNKS

• What Older Workers Don't Know About Social Security – U.S. News & World Report, 4/2/12
• KnowledgePanel® survey for Federal Reserve Board of Governors: Fed Says 21% of Mobile Phone Users Did Banking With the Devices – Bloomberg News, 3/14/12
• Harvard IOP Poll with KN: More Millennials Predict Obama Will Lose Bid for Re-election than Win, Harvard Poll Finds, 12/15/11
• Common Sense Media Research Documents Media Use Among Infants, Toddlers, and Young Children – Common Sense Media, 10/25/11
• "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" Rules Drivers' Decisions on Cell Phone Use and Texting – AAA Foundation, 10/3/11
• New Survey Reports 43% of Dating College Women Have Experienced Violent and Abusive Dating Behaviors – Break The Cycle, 9/14/11
• Safe Kids USA and Energizer Join Together To Prevent Button Battery Ingestion... "The Battery Controlled" Aims to Save Children's Lives by Raising Awareness of Growing Issue – 9/14/11 (KnowledgePanel® sample: 346 parents of children ages 6 and younger)
• New Poll Shows Democrats, Republicans Unified in Willingness to Make Deep Government Budget Cuts, 8/05/11
• National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVI: Teens and Parents – The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, 8/11
• The Economic Crises Facing Seniors of Color (report) – The Greenlining Institute, 8/11
• Climate Engineering: Technical Status, Future Directions, and Potential Responses – GAO-11-71, 7/28/11 (1,006 KnowledgePanel® members surveyed)
• Knowledge Networks Acquires Garcia Research Associates – Extends Leadership in Hispanic Consumer Research, 7/06/11
• Volunteering + Values: A Repair the World Report on Jewish Young Adults – Brandeis University, 6/11
  Authors: Chertok, Fran; Joshua Tobias; Shirah Rosin; Matthew Boxer
• KN Opens D.C. Office To Meet Expanding Federal Agency, Public Affairs Business, 6/15/11
• Youth More Open to Change on Immigration Issues, Latest Levitt Poll Finds – Hamilton College, 5/11/11 (Author: J. Boudreau)
• Poll Reveals Baby Boomers' Retirement Fears – Boston.com, 4/5/11
• Harvard IOP Poll with KN: Young Adults on Political Issues, Social Media, 3/31/11
• Study: Public Sees Both Parties Cutting Deficits the Wrong Way – Huffington Post, 3/3/11 (please search article title)
• Knowledge Networks "Instant" Polling Plays Major Role in CBS News Coverage of 2011 State of the Union Address, 1/26/11
• National Poll Identifies Southern Voters’ Attitudes: Topics explored include economy, immigration, Obama – Blair-Rockefeller poll with KN, 1/20/11
  Video:  KN's Mike Dennis describes poll methodology at The Clinton School of Public Service - Windows Streaming Media
• Women, Sponsors, & the Glass Ceiling: Harvard Business Publishes KN Research – Center for Work-Life Policy, 1/12/11
• Rutgers University WORKTRENDS Reports (Americans' Attitudes about Work, Employers and Government):
  • Chasing the American Dream:  Recent College Graduates and the Great Recession – May 2012
  • Out of Work/Losing Hope: US Workers' Bleak Expectations – Rutgers/KN Polls – September 2011
  • Unfulfilled Expectations: Recent College Grads Struggle in Troubled Economy – May 2011
  • The Shattered American Dream: Unemployed Workers Lose Ground, Hope, and Faith in their Futures – December 2010
  • American Workers Assess an Economic Disaster – September 2010
• Baby Boomers Are Confident About Sex – Boston.com, 11/22/10
• Economic Downturn Takes Toll on Health of Americans with Heart Disease, Diabetes or Cancer – Harvard School of Public Health / KN Poll (11/18/10 HSPH Press Release)
• American Public Health Association Confers 2010 APHA Statistics Section Industry Award on Charles DiSogra, Chief Statistician at Knowledge Networks Inc. , 11/09/10
• Nationwide Survey on Family Eating Behaviors and Physical Activity Reveals Positive Changes and Opportunities – Source: American Dietetic Association, 11/09/10
• National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (NSSHB) – Indiana Univ./KN poll, 10/20/10
• AP Poll: Many Think Health Overhaul Should Do More – Boston.com, 9/25/10
  (Associated Press Poll by Stanford University with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
  Professor V. Kerry Smith of Arizona State University, Carol Mansfield of RTI International and H. Allen Klaiber of Penn State conducted a study that provides surprising details about how Americans view secrecy, depending on the type of plot – ASU News, 9/9/10
• New Markle Survey Finds U.S. Public and Doctors Alike Support 'Blue Button' for Downloading Health Information – Markle Foundation press release, 10/07/10
• American Jews Still Connected to Israel - The Jerusalem Post, 9/05/10
  (Ron Friedman, author)
• Teachers, Public Sharply Divided on Key Education Issues - Harvard/KN poll - 8/26/10
• News Alert: Poll Shows Arizonans Want Open, Nonpartisan Primaries - Arizona Indicators, a project of Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University – 8/23/10

CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE AMERICAN MIND George Mason University and Yale University Video: KnowledgePanel® Reveals Global Warming's "Six Americas" – Yale Climate Study Read ALL Reports

• Recent Premium Increases Imposed by Insurers Averaged 20% for People Who Buy Their Own Health Insurance, Kaiser Survey Finds – Kaiser Family Foundation, 6/21/10
• U.S. Singles Happier with Sex than Married: KN study for AARP, courtesy UPI.com - 5/12/10
• Ask a Loaded Question, You'll Get a Loaded Answer - MPRnewswQ, 4/5/10
  Author: Rob Daves
• Harvard Poll on Young Adults by KN: Concern Over Economy - 3/09/10
• Knowledge Networks Awarded 20-Year Contract for Survey Services by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) - 2/23/10
• Understanding Anti-Immigrant Sentiment – MITnews. 02/19/10
  Principle Investigators: Jens Hainmueller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michael Hiscox, Harvard University
  Article Author: Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office
• Friends No. 1 way to meet that Valentine, but Web is growing – USA Today
  USA Today prominently cites KN's recent research for Michael Rosenfeld at Stanford—a study about how couples met (please search article title)

CHILDREN'S HEALTH POLL Univ of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health & KnowledgePanel® For youth sexting: Public supports education, not criminal charges Too much of a good thing? Kids in low-income families drink more juice than recommended School obesity programs may promote worrisome eating behaviors and physical activity in kids Read all NPCH reports

• CBS News State of the Union Poll Results from KnowledgePanel®
• Survey of young Americans'attitudes toward politics and public service: 16th Edition, Tracking poll, Executive Summary - 12/03/09
  John Della Volpe, Author, The Institute of Politics at Harvard University
• Battleground or Common Ground? American Public Opinion on Health Care Reform Authors: William A. Galston, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution; Steve Kull, WorldPublicOpinion.org; Clay Ramsay, Program on International Policy Attitudes
• A U.N press conference by the Inter-Parliamentary Union presented findings from World Public Opinion's study on political tolerance.
• Forbes.com covered a nationwide study about The Anguish of Unemployment, commissioned by Rutgers University. Read the article
  Also seen in: Time, CBS, PBS' News Hour; The New York Times; BusinessWeek; ABCNEWS.com's The Numbers, and Fox News.
• Opinions from KnowledgePanel members about today's education issues were released in the 2009 Education Next–PEPG National Education Survey, conducted by Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University.
• The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) conducted their annual study – America's Civic Health Index – looking at the state of civic engagement in America; it clearly reflects the impact of the economic crisis. See the 08/27/09 New York Times article, "Volunteering Waning in Recession, Report Says."
• "Publics want more government action on climate change: Global poll" – worldpublicopinon.org (Program on International Policy Attitudes/University of Maryland), 7/30/09
• KN launches U.S. Latino panel - Daily Research News, 8/12/08