Shapard Wolf's personal home page

History of the ASU Survey Research Laboratory

The ASU Survey Research Laboratory was founded in 1972 by Professor Morris Axelrod in the Department of Sociology; he directed it until his retirement in 1987. The SRL collected data by phone, mail, in-person and over the web for faculty members; federal, state, and local government agencies; foundations; and the ASU administration. A two-semester graduate course sequence in survey research methods, the Practicum in Survey Research, was offered through the SRL from 1972-2003. The graduate students assisted in the planning, development, and conduct of funded surveys with access to the data for analysis and the preparation of research papers and reports.

Shapard Wolf worked at the ASU Survey Research Laboratory from 1983-2004; he served as director and taught the Practicum from 1987-2004.

You can see what the old SRL home page looked like here. The SRL was transferred out of the Sociology Department with the name changed and a somewhat different mission. Persons desiring access to or information about the archival data collected by the SRL should contact the ASU Institute for Social Science Research.

On 21 October 2004, Shap was transferred to the ASU School of Life Sciences, where he currently works as a Technology Support Analyst, Principal.

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IBM Laptops

IBM laptops have a very secure bios password. If the CMOS chip loses power, you can get corruption in this chip and not be able to log in. IBM's answer is to replace the motherboard. There is a way to read the contents of the security chip and decode the stored password; if the eeprom has been corrupted it can be repaired and rewritten. See the website at allservice.ro. Here are some pictures of how I built the circuit described on the site.

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Survey/Stat Links:
U. of Illinois SRL Links to Survey Research
Joint Program in Survey Methodology

Federal Statistics
Census Bureau

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Significant Publications:
Chang, Qugui, and Shapard Wolf. 1999. "The Rational Public and Group Differences: Public Opinion about Government Involvement in Health Care." in American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.

Cialdini, Robert, Sandford Braver, and Shapard Wolf. 1991. "A New Paradigm for Experiments on the Causes of Survey Nonresponse." in First International Conference on Household Survey Nonresponse. Washington, DC: U. S. Bureau of the Census.

—. 1993. "Predictors of Nonresponse in Government and Commercial Surveys." in Fourth International Workshop on Household Survey Nonresponse. Bath, England.

Harlan, Sharon, Larissa Larsen, Edward J. Hackett, Shapard Wolf, Bob Bolin, Diane Hope, Andrew Kirby, Amy Nelson, and Tom Rex. 2005. "Neighborhood Attachment in Urban Environments." in American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA.

Harlan, Sharon L., Robert Bolin, Edward J. Hackett, Diane Hope, Andrew Kirby, Larissa Larsen, Amy Nelson, Tom Rex, Shapard Wolf, and N. Jones. 2003. "Community and environment in a desert metropolis." in CAP LTER Fifth Annual Poster Symposium. Arizona State University: Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University.

Harlan, Sharon L., Larissa Larsen, Tom Rex, Shapard Wolf, Edward J. Hackett, Andrew Kirby, Bob Bolin, Amy Nelson, and Diane Hope. 2003. "The Phoenix Area Social Survey: Community and environment in a desert metropolis." Pp. 52 in Central Arizona - Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Contribution Series 2. Tempe, AZ: Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University.

Kirby, Andrew, Sharon L. Harlan, Bob Bolin, Edward J. Hackett, Larissa Larsen, Tom Rex, and Shapard Wolf. 2003. "Building walls, building community? A preliminary examination of common-interest neighborhoods in Phoenix." in Second Annual Hawaiian International Conference in Social Sciences. Hawaii.

Kirby, Andrew, Sharon L. Harlan, Larissa Larsen, Edward J. Hackett, Bob Bolin, Diane Hope, Amy Nelson, Tom Rex, and Shapard Wolf. 2004. "“A multitude of particular little societies”: an examination of housing enclaves in Metropolitan Phoenix."

Kirby, Andrew, Sharon L. Harlan, Larissa Larsen, Edward J. Hackett, Bob Bolin, Amy Nelson, Tom Rex, and Shapard Wolf. 2006. "Examining the Significance of Housing Enclaves in the Metropolitan United States of America." Housing, Theory and Society 23:19-33.

Larsen, Larissa, Sharon L. Harlan, Bob Bolin, Edward J. Hackett, Diane Hope, Andrew Kirby, Amy L. Nelson, Tom Rex, and Shapard Wolf. 2004. "Bonding and bridging: Understanding the relationship between social capital and civic action." Journal of Planning Education and Research 24:64-77.

Richardson, Richard C., and Shapard Wolf. 1986. "Studying Faculty Behavior: An Activity-Driven Typology." in Association for the Study of Higher Education. San Antonio, TX.

Risley-Curtiss, Christina, Lynn C. Holley, and Shapard Wolf. 2006. "The Animal-Human Bond and Ethnic Diversity." Social work 51:257-268.

Wolf, Shapard. 1987. "Observations on Observations: Making the Transition from Paper and Pencil to CATI." in National Field Directors Conference. Raleigh, NC.

—. 1987. "Selecting Random Respondents: Most Recent Birthday v. Kish." in National Field Directors Conference. Raleigh, NC.

—. 1988. "Protecting Respondent Confidentiality: The Design of a Micro-Computer Respondent Tracking Program." in National Field Directors Conference. York, Ontario, CA.

—. 1989. "Mixed Mode CATI/CAPI Studies." in International Field Technology Conference. St. Petersburg, FL.

—. 1992. "Respondent Errors Using the Most Recent Birthday Selection Method." in International Field Directors Conference. St. Petersberg, FL.

—. 1992. "What to do When the Party's Over: Hardware Choices for Data Archiving." in International Field Directors Conference. St. Petersberg, FL.

—. 1997. "Trends in University Survey Research." in Pacific Sociological Association Annual Conference. San Diego, CA.

Wolf, W. Shapard, and Richard C. Richardson. 1986. "Studying Faculty Behavior: An Activity-Driven Typology. ASHE 1986 Annual Meeting Paper." in Association for the Study of Higher Education 1986 Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX.

Wu, J., and Shapard Wolf. 2003. "Sources of salt to municipal wastewater." in 29th Annual Conference of the Water Quality Association. Las Vegas, NV.