Rossana Armson

Rossana R. Armson

Senior Project Manager

Email: [email protected]

Office Phone: 612-626-4282

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Summary

Rossana has extensive experience working with both University clients and clients external to the University, ranging from state government units to counties, community groups, and nonprofits. Her survey research expertise includes questionnaire design, sampling, telephone survey data collection (both cell and landline), and mail survey data collection utilizing the Dillman method. She has coordinated and managed an annual statewide survey of Minnesota residents since 1984. One recent data collection effort was a multi-mode (mail, phone, and online) longitudinal survey of young adults who had previously completed a survey when they were in high school, with a companion multi-mode survey of their parents.

 

Education

  • PhD coursework - Sociology, University of Minnesota, 1980 - 1984
  • BA - Sociology, University of South Carolina, 1980

 

Skills and Training

  • questionnaire design
  • budgeting/cost estimates
  • proposal writing
  • contract review
  • quantitative data collection
  • use of incentives in mail surveys
  • focus group recruitment

 

Publications and Presentations

2020 Minnesota State Survey: Results and Technical Report, March 2020. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 21-1.

2019 Minnesota State Survey: Results and Technical Report, April 2020. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 20-2.

2019 Rural Grocery Store Survey: Results and Technical Report, January 2020. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 20-1.

Masonic Cancer Center Population Survey: Results and Technical Report, September 2019. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 19-3.

Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) Clinical Research Participant Survey: Results and Technical Report, August 2019. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 19-2.

2018 Minnesota State Survey: Results and Technical Report, February 2019. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 19-1.

2017 Minnesota State Survey: Results and Technical Report, February 2018. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 18-1.

Dakota County 2040 Comprehensive Plan Residential Survey: Results and Technical Report, June 2017. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 17-2.

2016 Minnesota State Survey: Results and Technical Report, April 2017. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 17-1.

2015 Twin Cities Area Survey: Results and Technical Report, March 2016. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 16-2.

2015 Minnesota State Survey: Results and Technical Report, January 2016. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 16-1. (This is a technical report that was written annually beginning in 1984.)

Vocational Rehabilitation Customer Survey: Results and Technical Report, September 2014. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 14-3.

2013 Hennepin County Survey: Results and Technical Report, June 2014. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 14-2.

Working with Community Partners, Rossana Armson (Facilitator), University of Minnesota Office of Measurement Services. International Field Directors & Technologies Conference, Pasadena, CA, May 2014. Research output: Other contribution.

Survey of Verizon Wireless Customers: Results and Technical Report, August 2013. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 13-5.

Fertilizer/Business Survey: Results and Technical Report, July 2013. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 13-4.

2012 Twin Cities Area Survey: Results and Technical Report, March 2013. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 13-2. (This is a technical report that was written annually beginning in 1982.)

Fertilizer Use Survey: Results and Technical Report, February 2013. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 13-3.

Midwest Renewable Energy Tracking System (M-RETS) Survey: Results and Technical Report, August 2012. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 12-2.

Survey about Central Sands Private Wells: Results and Technical Report, June 2011. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 11-5.

Library Survey: Results and Technical Report, May 2011. University of Minnesota, Office of Measurement Services, Technical Report 11-4.

Management Adaptations, Rossana Armson (Facilitator), University of Minnesota Center for Survey Research. International Field Directors & Technologies Conference, Miami Beach, FL, May 2005. Research output: Other contribution.

Cost and Efficiency Methods, Rossana Armson (Facilitator), University of Minnesota Center for Survey Research. International Field Directors & Technologies Conference, Nashville, TN, May 2003. Research output: Other contribution.

Getting Started with Statewide Polls, Rossana Armson, University of Minnesota Center for Survey Research. International Field Directors & Technologies Conference, Clearwater Beach, FL, May 2002. Research output: Other contribution.

Mode Effects and Multi-Mode Surveys, Rossana Armson (Facilitator), University of Minnesota Center for Survey Research. International Field Directors & Technologies Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2001. Research output: Other contribution.

Protection of Human Subjects, Rossana Armson (Facilitator), University of Minnesota Center for Survey Research. International Field Directors & Technologies Conference, St. Louis, MO, May 1998. Research output: Other contribution.

Very Simple Project Cost Monitoring (Roundtable Discussion), Rossana Armson, University of Minnesota Center for Survey Research. International Field Directors & Technologies Conference, Norfolk, VA, May 1997. Research output: Other contribution.

The Trials and Tribulations of the Small Shop – Panel and Discussion, Rossana Armson, University of Minnesota Center for Survey Research. National Field Directors/Field Technologies Conference, Boston, MA, May 1994. Research output: Other contribution.

Participation in Survey Research: the Minnesota Experience, Rossana Armson, University of Minnesota Center for Survey Research. National Field Directors/Field Technologies Conference, Chicago, IL, May 1993. Research output: Other contribution.

How to Accurately Budget Survey Costs, Rossana Armson, University of Minnesota Center for Survey Research. National Field Directors Conference, St. Petersburg Beach, FL, May 1992. Research output: Other contribution.

Mississippi River Boating Survey: Results and Technical Report, Rossana Armson, 1992. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Management Technical Center Reprint 93-R026.

Health Screening and Random Recruitment for Cognitive Aging Research, Christensen, K.J., Moye, J., Armson, R.R., and Kern, T.M., 1992, Psychology and Aging. 7, 2, p. 204-208.

Questionnaire Effects, Rossana Armson, University of Minnesota Center for Survey Research. National Field Directors Conference, Lancaster, PA, May 1990. Research output: Other contribution.

Numerous other technical reports completed from 1982 – 2010, University of Minnesota, Minnesota Center for Survey Research.