We’re excited to announce that CIPHER 2025 will be held at USC’s Capital Campus in Washington, D.C. on February 26 – 28.

In its seventh year, the Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) Conference continues to be the leading event for discussion, exchange, and learning about probability panels. The event again will bring together researchers and policymakers from the United States and beyond for a wide-ranging conversation about innovations, challenges, and opportunities in this field.

Call for Papers and Call for Panels Submission Guidelines

The call for Papers and Panels has now closed. Stay tuned for the program!

Conference Registration and Fees

CIPHER is free to attend in-person or virtually, but registration is required. To register for CIPHER and/or the UAS Data Use Workshop, please complete this form.

Location and Format

The joint conference will take place February 26 – 28 at USC’s Capital Campus in Washington D.C. The preliminary program is as follows:

  • February 26: UAS Data Use Workshop
  • February 27: CIPHER and Reception
  • February 28: CIPHER

Keynote

David Dutwin, Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Chief Scientist of AmeriSpeak at NORC at the University of Chicago, will be delivering the keynote entitled “Lifting the Veil: Considering Deep Transparency in Household Internet Panels.”

Conference Focus

As in previous years, the conference will focus on the innovations, challenges, and opportunities of population-representative probability-based online panels.

This year’s call for papers focuses on the following areas:

  • Transparency and best practices in probability-based panel recruitment and retention;
  • Survey methodology and practice;
  • Experiments;
  • Data management and linkages;
  • Developments and analysis techniques;
  • Applications of research;
  • Combination of wearable devices data with self-reports;
  • Contextual data;
  • Naturally occurring data; and
  • Machine learning.

UAS Data Use Workshop

In 2025, CIPHER will again offer the Understanding American Study (UAS) data use workshop. This is a half-day workshop for those interested in learning more about the UAS panel and its data and data products. The UAS is a probability-based online panel of over 15,000 respondents in the US, managed by the Center for Economic and Social Research at USC.

Scientific Committee

Arie Kapteyn, Jill Darling, Marco Angrisani, and Francisco Perez-Arce (USC Center for Economic and Social Research); and Jan Karem Höhne (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover).

Sponsorship

CIPHER is supported by funding from the Social Security Administration and the National Institute on Aging under grant U01AG077280. The reception for all attendees is generously sponsored by FINRA Foundation

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For questions, please email Tarra Kohli (tkohli@usc.edu; d-cipher@usc.edu).

Planning Committee

Tania Gutsche, Tarra Kohli, Lila Rabinovich, Jessica Lozano, and Pamela Tyler (USC Center for Economic and Social Research).