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.