Asking About Race and Ethnicity
The U.S. Census Bureau has been slowly releasing data from the 2020 Census and as a result we’ve made a couple of updates to our work. First, and most easily, we’ve updated the target proportions that we weight survey data to. Second, and a bit more involved, we’ve...
The Case for 5-Point Unipolar Scales
As teams assemble questionnaires for us to review, these draft survey instruments often end up with a mishmash of scales, with different questions having scales with three, four, five, seven, eleven, or more items, as everyone incorporates their favorite scale. One of...
Conducting C-Suite Surveys Today
When I first started out in research, we would conduct executive interviews face-to-face. I would often both cold-call the executives in advance and then travel and do the interviews. Two of my favorite CTO interviews occurred when I was transferred to England for a...
Data Quality and the Tragedy of Mistrust
At the ESOMAR Insights Festival last week, Pete Cape of Dynata provided a wide-ranging “State of the Panel Industry” address, focusing on the theme of trust. He said, “I get to take a more helicopter view of issues affecting our industry. I get to see significant...
Asking Too Much
Respondents will answer the questions you ask, but they may not spend the effort to be accurate. For some questionnaires, it’s simply not possible.