ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TIMOTHY TRIPLETT -- is a senior survey methodologist and part of the Urban Institute’s Statistical Methods Group. His
work includes evaluating and monitoring sampling procedures and survey data collection for the Urban Institute. He
conducts methodological research addressing such issues as estimating non-response bias, weighting strategies, and
imputation procedures. Tim is an expert on working with the American Community Survey (ACS) data and currently organizes
regular ACS users’ group meeting at the Urban Institute. He also works extensively with the decennial Census, and the
Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey in order to create survey weights, impute
for missing data, or to analyze nonresponse for the numerous surveys collected for or by the Urban Institute. Tim is an
expert on working with the National Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) and was the lead survey expert
responsible for improving the design and dissemination of the 2008 SPPA and currently is working on the design of the
2012 SPPA. Previously he worked in the Institute’s Assessing the New Federalism Project as the Survey Manger for the
National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF). He was the primary editor and key contributor of the 2002 series of
twelve methodology reports. Prior to joining UI, he was the sampling, programming, and senior project manager at the
Survey Research Center, University of Maryland at College Park. He has over 25 years of survey research experience,
including responsibility for national, statewide and regional projects, sample design, developing questionnaires, and
managing statistical and computer programming. He has developed standardized procedures for sampling and data analysis
and written many computer programs specific to survey research needs. He has written and presented over 25 survey
methodology papers and served as the program chair for the 1998 International Field Directors and Technology Conference.
He is an author of a chapter on using surveys for the 2010-third edition of the Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation.
In addition, Tim has developed many survey research utility programs and has written the shareware program
"Grand Slam Tennis" that can also be downloaded from this web site. Other web sites maintained
by Tim include the Berwyn District Civic Association's
web site and the DC-AAPOR web site.
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