Nancy Mathiowetz

Sociology Department Chair and
Professor
Editor, Public Opinion Quarterly
Past-President, American Association for Public Opinion

Office: Bolton Hall 778C
Phone: (414) 229-2216
E-mail: nancym2@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf)

Office Hours: On sabbatical for 2009-10

Degree:
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan
M.S., Biostatistics, University of Michigan
B.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests:
Survey methodology, measurement error, health services research, caregiving, delivery of long term care services

Teaching Interests:
Quantitative analysis, questionnaire design, statistics, survey methodology

Huffington Post blog
Making Sense of Polls, Nov 13, 2007
Pre-election Poll Methodology: What the Public Has a Right to Know, Nov 29, 2007

Past Course Syllabi
SOCIOL 752: Fundamentals of Survey Methodology (pdf)
SOCIOL 754: Questionnaire Design (pdf)
SOCIOL 760: Advanced Statistical Methods in Sociology (pdf)
SOCIOL/URB ST: 982: Methods of Research and Analysis for Urban Social Institutions II (pdf)

Selected Publications:
Sunghee Lee, Nancy A. Mathiowetz, and Roger Tourangeau (2007) "Measuring Disability in Surveys: Consistency over Time and Across Respondents (pdf)." Journal of Official Statistics, Vol. 23(2):163-184.

Nancy A. Mathiowetz (2001) "Methodological Issues in the Measurement of Persons with Disabilities." Research in Social Science and Disability, Volume 2: 125-144.

John Bound, Charlie Brown, and Nancy Mathiowetz (2001) "Measurement Error in Survey Data (pdf)" in J. Heckman and E. Leamer (eds.) Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 5. Amsterdam: North Holland. 

Nancy Mathiowetz and Gooloo Wunderlich (2000). Survey Measurement of Work Disability: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Nancy A. Mathiowetz and Sarah Dipko (2000) "A Comparison of Response Error by Adolescents and Adults." Medical Care 38:374-382.

Paul Biemer, Robert Groves, Lars Lyberg, Nancy Mathiowetz, and Seymour Sudman (eds.) (1991). Measurement Errors in Surveys, John Wiley and Sons.

Nancy A. Mathiowetz and Greg J. Duncan (1988) "Out of Work, Out of Mind: Response Error in Retrospective Reports of Unemployment (pdf)," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 6, No.2, 221-229.