Becky is a senior data scientist in NORC’s Health Care Programs department. She has expertise with a wide range of research methodologies and modes, spanning small- and large-scale telephone, web, in-person, mail-based, and multimode projects conducted for the federal government, private foundations, and other clients.
Becky currently focuses on methodological research, operational innovations, and analytics for two large-scale projects: the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), a national, longitudinal survey of Medicare beneficiaries, and the Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP), a national resource of encounter-level health care data including the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States. She previously managed a variety of survey projects related to public opinion and public policy within the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, most recently focusing on aging and retirement, long-term care, legal needs, and election polling. She also worked in an analytic capacity on the National Immunization Survey (NIS).
Prior to joining NORC, Becky managed data collection, data cleaning, and data processing efforts in survey research roles at Harvard University's Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, the Center for Survey Research at UMass Boston, and Zagat Survey.
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Education
MA
Columbia University
BA
Carleton College
Project Contributions
Publications
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opens in new tab"Changing Modes on the Fly: Transitioning a Complex Longitudinal Survey from In-Person to Phone due to COVID-19."
Journal Article | February 9, 2022
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opens in new tab"Test of a Hybrid Method of Sampling the LGBT Population: Web Respondent Driven Sampling with Seeds from a Probability Sample."
Journal Article | December 19, 2019
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opens in new tab"A Comparison of Estimation Methods for Web-Based Respondent Driven Sampling."
Journal Article | August 26, 2019
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opens in new tab"Evaluating the Impact of Using Pre-Recorded Voicemail Messages in the National Immunization Surveys."
Journal Article | August 26, 2018
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opens in new tab"MTV/AP-NORC: Comparing the Political Views of Young People and Their Parents’ Generation."
Report | June 26, 2018
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opens in new tab"MTV/AP-NORC Youth Political Pulse, March 2018: Young Americans’ Political Outlook and Perspectives on the Trump Presidency."
Report | May 7, 2018
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opens in new tab"Using Administrative Data Proactively to Aid in Data Collection for New Respondent Panels for the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey."
Journal Article | August 30, 2017
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opens in new tab"Safety Screening in the NIS RDD Cell-Phone Sample."
Journal Article | August 18, 2017