Designing PR Surveys

Writing a questionnaire for a newsmaker survey is different than designing a customer satisfaction or general market research survey. Such general surveys are often academic, clinical, even boring: in contrast, with a newsmaker survey you are looking for punch and...

DIY Survey Research

I’m old enough to remember typing pools – though not old enough to remember when the secretaries in them were using typewriters. They were using word processors – not software like Microsoft Word but hardware like the Wang OIS, a dedicated system for timeshared word...

Key Recommendations for Online Sampling

Probability sampling remains the gold standard for producing results that are representative of target populations. So much so that non-probability methods typically try to emulate or mimic probability sampling where possible: Positioning a panel survey as a random...

Intercept Surveys

Where river sampling is typically a supplemental source of responses to panel surveys, intercept surveys gather all their responses by interrupting traffic to web sites. CivicScience, Google Consumer Surveys (GCS) and RIWI each intercept people in their everyday use...