Langer Research Associates staff will participate in several presentations next week at the annual meetings of the American Association for Public Opinion Research and the World Association for Public Opinion Research in Boston, on subjects ranging from politics to survey methodology to international development.

• Julie E. Phelan and Gary Langer will give a paper on their evaluation of whether to adjust a long-term trend-based survey, the 27-year-old Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index, to include cell-phone and Spanish-language interviews. Links: paper and presentation.
• Greg Holyk, with Damla Ergun, Langer, Phelan and Seth Brohinsky and Dean Williams of Abt SRBI, will present on the continuation of the 2012 ABC News/Washington Post presidential election tracking poll in the aftermath of tropical storm Sandy. Link: presentation.
• Langer will present assessment data on civic engagement in Afghanistan produced in support of a USAID-funded program by Counterpart International (link: presentation), and separately will present polling analysis of the 2012 presidential election produced by Langer Research Associates for ABC News (link: presentation).
• Holyk will serve as a panelist at a WAPOR session on perceptions and implications of the ‘pivot to Asia’ in U.S. foreign policy.
• Led by Eran Ben-Porath of Social Science Research Solutions, Ergun, Langer and Holyk, with Jon Cohen and Scott Clement of Capital Insight, will offer a presentation on context effects in favorability questions in the 2012 presidential contest. Link: presentation.

Link: Main page for all presentations.