Anne B. Ciemnecki
Senior Fellow

Anne Ciemnecki is a senior fellow at Mathematica, in NJ. An expert in interviewing methods for people with disabilities, random assignment, informed consent procedures, and Institutional Review Board clearance, she directs many of Mathematica’s large-scale surveys and health care studies.

Ciemnecki is the data collection task leader for the National Longitudinal Transition Study (NLTS-2012), a congressionally-mandated national assessment of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences (ED/IES). NLTS-2012 will collect information on 15,000 students in about 300 districts, randomly selected to represent all public school students age 13 to 21. In spring 2012 and 2014, she will direct surveys with youth and their parents, teachers, and principals and also extract school records. For the first time, the study will compare youth with disabilities to those without disabilities to provide a clearer national picture of the gaps in their personal, family, and school characteristics; services they receive while in school; and what they do when they leave school.

She is also designing and directing data collection for the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND), a Social Security Administration policy initiative to gradually reduce Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries’ payments when the beneficiary has earnings over a specific amount, instead of cutting the benefit to $0 (as under current law), thus facilitating return to work. Her surveys will estimate impacts of the program interventions on employment, benefits, and well-being by measuring differences in outcomes between the program and control groups.

 

Ciemnecki presents widely to professional associations, including the American Association for Public Opinion Research, American Statistical Association, and American Public Health Association, on methodology issues. She is the author of a chapter on telephone surveys for people with disabilities in the book Towards Best Practices for Surveying People with Disabilities and serves as a referee for Public Opinion Quarterly and the Journal of Statistics. She is a member of the Institutional Review Board at Public/Private Ventures, Inc., and holds an M.A. in administration from Rider University (formerly Rider College).

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