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Survey & Data Collection

With a nearly 50-year record of excellence, we are known for innovative approaches to random assignment studies and computer-assisted data collection, among other areas. We offer clients two ways to meet their different survey needs:

  • Our survey sampling and methodology team’s internationally respected senior design specialists and versatile data collection unit support a range of projects.
  • Our subsidiary Abt SRBI offers full-service survey capabilities that help decision-makers develop well-informed policies.

What Do We Do?

  • Skilled consultation with clients
  • Project and sample design, including complex designs and weighting
  • Questionnaire development and pretesting
  • Ensure respondent understanding through Cognitive Testing Laboratory
  • Behavioral coding
  • Qualitative research, including focus groups and interviewing
  • Experimental design
  • Extensive in-house multimode data collection with one of the nation’s largest computer-assisted capabilities
  • Cell-phone sampling and frame integration with landlines
  • Tracking and locating difficult-to-reach respondents
  • Medical specimen collection and records abstraction
  • GIS and other digital measurement applications
  • World-wide data collection

What Distinguishes Us?

  • Depth in public health and epidemiology, veterans’ affairs, transportation and urban planning, utilities and energy, banking and finance, consumer goods, customer satisfaction and brand equity, and media research.
  • Solutions for difficult or unusual demands, such as sample designs to locate rare or elusive populations or questionnaires to elicit reliable information on complex or sensitive topics.
  • Innovative, award-winning research that we present at conferences and in leading publications.

Related Documents

IBF SAS Macro, version 1 This version works fine under SAS v9.2. but older versions may give a slightly distorted RTF tables.

IBF SAS Macro, version 2 This version works under any SAS version. The output is written to a routine LST file.

Extreme Survey Weight Adjustment as a Component of Sample Balancing (a.k.a. Raking)

A SAS Macro for Balancing a Weighted Sample

Abt Associates

Abt Associates is a mission-driven, global leader in research and program implementation in the fields of health, social and environmental policy, and international development. Known for its rigorous approach to solving complex challenges, Abt Associates was ranked as one of the top 20 global research firms in 2011 and also named one of the top 40 international development innovators. The company has multiple offices in the U.S. and program offices in nearly 40 countries.

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