Workshop Date: September 13 – 15, 2006
Location: Hilton Plaza del Rio Hotel, Riverwalk, San Antonio Texas
Call For Papers Submission Deadline: February 28, 2006 to kpilhuj@scarborough.com

Research professionals are invited to submit proposals for topics for the 2006 CMOR Respondent Cooperation Workshop. This Workshop will focuson improving respondent cooperation across all survey methodologies, including:

• Internet panels
• Focus group recruitment
• Mail surveys return improvement
• Telephone survey response rate improvement efforts
• Mall intercept recruiting

This Workshop will also concentrate on increasing respondent cooperation in the following industries:

• Marketing Research
• Public Opinion Polling
• Government Research (Census, BLS)
• Health care (public health and personal health care)
• School studies

One special focus of this Workshop will address improving cooperation among difficult-to-survey groups, such as children, teenagers, young adults 18-34, minorities and the elderly. If your organization is involved in surveys with any of these groups, you are eagerly invited to propose a presentation topic.

Proposal Topics

Topics can be proposed for either:

• Presentations at General Sessions of the whole conference. These 20-30 minute speeches will be delivered via PowerPoint to the entire conference. There will then be time for 10-15 minutes of questions and follow-up.

or

• Leadership of Breakout Sessions on specific topics concerning a particular methodology (for example, Internet panels). Breakout session leaders will propose the topic to the agenda committee. These same session leaders will first start the session off with some general information from their own experience (10 minutes), then lead the brainstorming or discussion on that subject for 30 minutes.

If you are involved in improving respondent cooperation efforts (development of procedures, tests in the effort to improve survey or recruitment cooperation, success or failure stories), CMOR would like to receive your proposal to speak at the General or Breakout sessions.

Submission Instructions

Please submit:

• A one-page outline of your proposal, detailing briefly the area, methodology and focus of the ideas you’d present, or the discussion you’d like to lead.
• Name and contact info, plus email address, of presenter/leader, and a brief outline of position/title/experience in the industry.
• This outline should be sent no later than February 28, 2006 to kplhuj@scarborough.com.

Please also send questions before that date if you need further information before submitting the proposal. The 2006 CMOR Respondent Cooperation Workshop Agenda Committee will then respond to your proposal and let you know if it is accepted for the conference by March 31, 2006. Presenters and discussion leaders will be required to submit their full presentations by July 14, 2006 to the agenda committee in PowerPoint format.

Further information Workshop and on Respondent Cooperation efforts can be obtained by visiting the CMOR website at www.cmor.org.