Roger Tourangeau, PhD

Roger Tourangeau is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, Director of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JSPM) at the University of Maryland. He has been a survey methodologist for 25 years, with extensive experience in a wide range of surveys. Tourangeau is well-known for his methodological research on web surveys, on the impact of different modes of data collection, and on the cognitive processes underlying survey responses. He is the lead author of a book on this last topic (The Psychology of Survey Response, co-authored with Lance Rips and Kenneth Rasinski and published by Cambridge University Press in 2000); this book received the 2006 Book Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR).

He is also one of the co-editors of a collection of papers (Cognition and Survey Research, published by Wiley in 1999) from a conference on cognitive aspects of survey response. He is lead author or co-author of 45 journal articles, three books, 13 chapters, and numerous reports and monographs. His papers have appeared in leading journals in survey methodology and psychology, including the Journal of Official Statistics and Public Opinion Quarterly. His work has received a number of awards.

In 2002, he received the Helen Dinerman Award for his work on the cognitive aspects of survey methodology. This is the highest honor given by the World Association for Public Opinion Research. In 2005, he received the 2005 AAPOR Innovators Award (along with Tom Jabine, Miron Straf, and Judy Tanur). He was also elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1999 for his work on survey measurement error and his contributions to federal surveys as a sampling statistician. In 2006, he served as the chair of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association in 2006. He has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University.