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Fieldwork

My fate of doing survey research started more than a decade ago, when I was a young college student who knew nothing about stated preference but was working as an enumerator handing out paper surveys.

Alan Xu as an undergraduate, working as a survey enumerator with paper questionnaires. — Where it started: paper questionnaires, no idea what stated preference was.

Survey enumerators collecting stated preference data on a Lake Erie beach in 2019. — A stated preference survey study on a Lake Erie beach, 2019. Now we have tablets.

On the trail

I estimate hypothetical values in my research, but I discover my own recreational value by leaving real footprints on the trail.

Zion

Arches

Mount Rainier

Monument Valley