Professional Summary
James Lepkowski is a survey methodologist at the Institute for Social Research where he directs the Michigan Program in Survey Methodology. He has been on the faculty of Biostatistics and the Institute for Social Research since 1982, conducting research on survey sampling and estimation topics as well as teaching courses on surveys and related topics. He is also a member of the faculty at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, a federally funded degree program created in the early 1990s to train present and future generations of survey methodologists in the federal statistical system.
Courses Taught
BIOSTAT517: Survey Sampling for Clinical Research
BIOSTAT617: Theory and Methods of Sample Design (Soc 717 and Stat 580 and SurvMeth 617)
Syllabus (PDF)
Education
Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of Michigan, 1980
M.P.H., Biostatistics, University of Michigan, 1976
B.S., Mathematics, Illinois State University, 1970
Research Interest & Projects
New survey sampling methods and applications across a range of disciplines. Methodological research activities at present include telephone sampling methods, methods for compensating for missing survey data, methods to analyze survey data that take the complexity of the survey sample design into account and survey and sample design. Working in a multidisciplinary research environment involving collaboration of statisticians and social, psychological, economic, and political scientists at the Institute for Social Research, substantive research interests are diverse. These include health; health care quality and access; health care coverage; epidemiology of chronic conditions; social epidemiology; aging, race, and socio-economic status; social and psychological consequences of widowhood; fertility, teenage sexual relations, and family formation; education, gender, labor force participation, and economic status; race and discrimination in higher education; epidemiology of hypertension and stroke risk factors in African Americans; vitamin A deficiency; and cataract and blinding eye conditions.
Selected Publications
(2004). Eighth Conference on Health Survey Research Methods. Hyattsville, MD.
Groves R. M., Fowler J., Couper M. P., Lepkowski J. M., Tourangeau R., and Singer E. (2004). Survey Methodology. New York: J. W. Wiley and Sons.
Lepkowski, J. M., and Couper, M. P. (2001). Nonresponse in Longitudinal Household Surveys. In International Conference on Survey Nonresponse, Chapter 17. Robert M. Groves et al., editors. New York: Wiley and Sons.
Casady, R. J., and Lepkowski, J. M. (1999). Telephone Sampling. In Sampling of Populations: Methods and Applications, Chapter 15. Paul Levy and Stanley Lemeshow. New York: Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Lepkowski, J. M., Sadosky, S. A. and Weiss, P. S. (1998). Mode, Behavior, and Data Recording Accuracy. In Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection, Chapter 19. Mick P. Couper et al., editors. New York: Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Lepkowski, J. M. and Groves, R. M. (1986). A Mean Square Error Model for Dual Frame, Mixed Mode Survey Design. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81, 930-937.
Professional Affiliations
American Statistical Association
International Statistical Institute
International Association of Survey Statisticians
Additional Information
Director, Interdepartmental, Program in Survey Methodology
Chief Mathematical Statistician, Cycle 6, National Survey of Family Growth
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