Polling & Research Office

Mission

 

CCERP’s Office of Research and Polling is a nonpartisan research and polling office dedicated to providing high quality public opinion research and analysis serving the public interest.

Goals

 

The goals of the Polling and Research Office are as follows:

·         to support faculty and student empirical research

·         to conduct research projects tied to Civic & Community Engagement and Research Project (CCERP) priorities

·         to conduct fee-for-service projects for clients

·         to collect data for clients

Services

 

The Office offers start to finish services to assist clients with all aspects of the survey research process:

Project Design

 

·         work with clients in selecting an appropriate research methodology and sampling strategy to meet study objectives

·         develop survey instrument(s) and consult on question wording, format, ordering, and scaling

Data Collection

·         conduct Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), software for collecting survey data based on structured questionnaires, using telephone or face-to-face interviewing, web surveys, or self-administered procedures.


Analysis and Reporting

·         prepare statistical analyses and reports of survey results in a variety of formats:  descriptive statistics, tables, weighted or un-weighted results, multivariate analysis, and other statistical techniques; and methodology reports, narrative reports, executive summaries/press materials, qualitative or content analysis, and raw data.

Memberships


 

The Polling & Research Office is a member of ACS, Association for Computer Assisted Surveys, a consortium of survey-related organizations.   http://cases.berkeley.edu/members.html