Dominic Lusinchi

• Curriculum Vitæ •

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• CURRENT
- Consultant (statistical data analysis & modeling, survey research, data mining, design of experiments), Far West Research, San Francisco.

- Instructor, University of California Berkeley Extension
(Course: Introduction to Statistical Analysis with SPSS).

• PAST
- Statistical adviser and committee chair (review quarterly revenue data reported by member companies, publish quarterly report), Market Statistics Service, EDA Consortium, San Jose, California.
- General Manager of Research, partner, Collett International Research, Inc. (surveys of electronics hardware engineering teams; benchmarking engineering organizations of electronics companies, statistical data analysis & modeling), Cupertino, California.
- Research assistant and interviewer, Field Research Corp., San Francisco.
- Enumerator, Bureau of the Census, San Francisco.
- Research assistant and data analyst, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva.

AREAS OF MAJOR STATISTICAL ACTIVITY AND INTEREST

- Application of statistics to diverse fields of human activity, data analysis, data modeling, sampling theory and practice, survey research, questionnaire design, evaluation of nonresponse bias on survey estimates, design of experiments, teaching statistics, SPSS training, SPSS programming.

AREAS OF MAJOR SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND INTEREST

- Sociology and history of polling and survey research in America, the social uses of statistics in modern society, and the sociology of the social sciences.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

- American Statistical Association (Survey Research Methods Section, Section on Statistical Consulting)
- American Association for Public Opinion Research
- Southwestern Sociological Association

PROFESSIONAL AWARD

- Statistical Measurements and Tools
Professional Achievement Award Certificate
University of California Extension, Santa Cruz.

OTHER CURRENT ACTIVITIES

- American Statistical Association, SF Bay Area Chapter, Member
- California Soccer Association-North (an affiliate of U.S.A.S.A., U.S.S.F., and F.I.F.A.), Executive Board, Member at Large

EDUCATION

Graduate
- Ph.D., Sociology. Specialty Area: applied statistics (University of Paris, Paris VIII: Vincennes-Saint-Denis). Abstract.

- First Year Doctoral Diploma (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies), Sociology
- Diploma, Sociology
(Department of Economics and Mathematical Methods, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.)

Undergraduate
- Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy (University of California, Berkeley)

PAPERS - PRESENTATIONS - PUBLICATIONS

PUBLISHED PAPERS:

“President” Landon and the 1936 Literary Digest poll. Were automobile and telephone owners to blame? (Forthcoming: Spring 2012, vol. 36:1, Social Science History. Abstract.)

Increasing Response Rates: Pre-notification & Web Survey Format.
2007 Proceedings of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Research, Washington, D.C.:
http://www.fcsm.gov/07papers/Lusinchi.X-A.pdf

Respondent-Generated Intervals: Do They Help in Collecting Quantitative Data?
Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Survey Research Methods Section, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association (2003):
http://www.amstat.org/sections/SRMS/Proceedings/y2003/Files/JSM2003-000265.pdf

The Demographic Impact of the Great Leap Forward Policies. A chronology of political and economic events in China between 1958 and 1962
Published by Cerf/Maspero Publishers, Paris (1977).

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

Could the 1936 Literary Digest Poll fiasco have been avoided? “Scrupulous bookkeeping” versus statistical adjustment of data. (Abstract.)
Paper to be presented at the Southwestern Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 16-19, 2011.

Increasing Response Rates in Web Surveys: Pre-Notification and Questionnaire Paging Format
Paper to be presented at the 2007 Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Research Conference, November 2007.

Web-Based Survey Research: Is It Coming of Age?
Paper presented at the 2003 Berkeley Conference of BASE (Bay Area Survey Evaluators/researchers/statisticians), hosted by U.C. Berkeley's Survey Research Center, June 2003.

Respondent-Generated Intervals: Do They Help in Collecting Quantitative Data?
Paper presented at the 58th Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May 2003, Nashville, TN.

Survey Research on the Web: A Progress Report
Paper presented at the 2002 Berkeley Conference of BASE (Bay Area Survey Evaluators/researchers/statisticians), hosted by U.C. Berkeley's Survey Research Center, June 2002.

Surveying a High-Tech Occupation: An Attempt to Increase the Cooperation Rate to a Web Survey
Paper presented at the 2001 Conference of the Pacific Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California, October 2001.

Conducting Survey Research Over the Web: Issues and the Quest for Solutions. A Review of Current Research
Paper presented at the 2001 Berkeley Conference of BASE (Bay Area Survey Evaluators/researchers/statisticians), hosted by U.C. Berkeley's Survey Research Center, June 2001.

Recent Research on Web-Based Surveys: A Review of Papers Presented at the 2000 AAPOR Annual Conference
Paper presented at the annual Berkeley Conference of BASE, hosted by U.C. Berkeley's Survey Research Center, June 2000.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

DFY (Design for Yield) Benchmarking - Best Practices in the Semiconductor Industry
Electronic Engineering Times, with Mark Rencher (President, Pivotal Enterprises), September 2004.

Book review: Advances in Cross-National Comparison: A European Working Book for Demographic and Socio-Economic Variables (Jürgen H.P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik and Christof Wolf (eds.). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003.) Journal of Official Statistics (Vol. 21, 3, Sept. 2005).

Charts and Statistical Analysis in Excel (2003) Published by IGI Development (San Jose, Calif.).

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS:

Could the 1936 Literary Digest Poll Fiasco have been Avoided? "Scrupulous bookkeeping" versus Statistical Adjustment of Data. (In progress.)

Review Essay: To Vote or Not To Vote. Electoral Participation in America. (1992)

OTHER (blogs & online articles):

"Dr. George Gallup and the Literary Digest Poll" with Mark Blumenthal, Jan Werner and Amy Fried.
Part 1 and Part 2.

"Senior Citizens in Today’s U.S. Labor Market":
Retirement Postponed?

"American Union Workers Soon to Become a Rare Breed?"

"Scientific Literacy and the American Public":
Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

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