David Cantor

Vice President

David Cantor, Ph.D., has more than 25 years of experience in designing surveys and evaluating the impact of social policy in the areas of health, crime and victimization, social welfare and family leave. Dr. Cantor has designed data collection methods for major economic and social surveys and has published on a wide range of survey methodological topics, including nonresponse, panel conditioning, incentives, organizational surveys, and measurement error.

Dr. Cantor has served as Associate Chair and Chair of the Standards Committee, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and as the Chair of the American Statistical Associations’s Committee of Law and Justice Statistics.

As Co-Principal Investigator, he was part of a team of researchers that won the 2014 Policy Impact Award from AAPOR for work on measuring rape and sexual assault among juveniles in residential placement. He has been a lecturer in statistical methods at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Cantor is a research professor Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland.

In recognition of his contributions to the field, Dr. Cantor has been named a 趣赢平台 Senior Statistical Fellow and serves on the Statistical Fellows Committee, which provides consultation on important survey statistics issues and addresses recent advances in applied statistics.

Education

Ph.D., Sociology (with a concentration in Applied Social Statistics), University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

M.S., Mathematical Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

A.B., Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Areas of Expertise

Statistical Sciences

Selected Publications

Cantor D., Fisher B., Chibnall S., Harps S., Townsend R., Thomas G., Lee H., Kranz V., Herbison R., and Madden K. (2019).

Report on the AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct.

Washington, DC: Association of American Universities.

Source (PDF)

Brick J.M., Caporaso A., Williams D., and Cantor D. (2019).

Reaching Spanish-speakers in self-administered surveys.

Archives of Psychology, 3(4), 1-14.

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Yan T. and Cantor D. (2019).

Asking survey questions about criminal justice involvement.

Public Health Reports, 134(1 Sup), 46s-56s.

DOI

Maitland A., Lin A., Cantor D., Jones M., Moser R., Hesse B., Davis T., and Blake K. (2017).

A nonresponse bias analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS).

Journal of Health Communications 1-9.

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Yan T. and Cantor D. (2017).

Asking criminal justice involvement questions.

Improving Collection of Indicators of Criminal Justice System Involvement in Population Health Data Programs: Proceedings of a Workshop (pp. 37-44). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Blake K.D., Portnoy D.B., Kaufman A.R., Lin C.J., Lo S.C., Backlund E., Cantor D., Hicks L., Lin T., Caporaso A., Davis T., Moser R.P., and Hesse B.W. (2016).

Rationale, procedures, and response rates for the 2015 administration of NCI's Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-FDA 2015.

Journal of Health Communication, 21(12), 1269-1275.

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Mercer A., Caporaso A., Cantor D., and Townsend R. (2015).

How much gets you how much? Monetary incentives and response rates in household surveys.

Public Opinion Quarterly, 79(1), 105-129.

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Miller N., Sizov N., Mullins C.D., and Cantor D. (2014).

New research on community reaction to aircraft noise in the United States.

Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem. Nara, Japan.