Phase 3: Data collection

Are you conducting a survey? We offer consulting and comprehensive service with expert knowledge based on our own national and multicultural surveys.

Once the planning phase of a survey has been completed, the next phase involves collecting and preparing the research data. Our experience with methodologically exacting survey programs in both national and international arenas, where we have either directly conducted the survey ourselves or participated in joint projects is a natural component of the services we offer.

• Consultation: : Support in requesting proposals and the related performance assessment of commercial survey institutes, weighing of pros and cons of the various survey methods, improving data quality and methods to increase participation
• Cognitive Pre-testing-Lab: Testing the intelligibility of items, questions and response options to improve the quality of questionnaires
• Telephone sampling: Landline and mobile phone over a biannually updated selection period
• Occupation coding: Information about coding of occupation
• Text and content analysis: Coding and analysis of open-ended questions and other textual material
• Electronic item handbooks: Comprehensive documentation of survey instruments for attitudes and behaviors as utilized in the social sciences.
• Online surveys: Consultation on individual questions and complete online projects, for example, determining the sample, changing over from a different survey method to online surveys or a mixed/multi-mode approach, etc.
• Standard demography and Regional standards: Instruments for standardizing socio-structural survey characteristics regional context in surveys for greater comparability