Overview

The Center for Survey Research conducts a wide array of surveys for a diverse clientele. We work with organizations on a one time-basis or on reoccurring survey projects. Contact us if you would like to discuss your survey project needs.  

Need Assessment for Adult Autism Care
Overview:
CSR provided data analysis and consultation on data reporting to the Virginia Institute of Autism (VIA) for a web-based survey of families with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders to determine future treatment and support needs. The survey was independently designed and executed by VIA. There were 210 respondents to the survey. VIA prepared a written report of the results using CSR data analyses and consultation from CSR.
Project ID:
7.18
Sponsor:
Virginia Institute of Autism
Principal Investigators:
James Ellis
Sample:
Responses were collected by the Sponsor via a Web survey.
Year:
2007
International Neuropsychological Society (INS)/ ILC
Overview:
CSR conducted an internet survey to investigate issues pertaining to the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) and specifically the International Liaison Committee (ILC) and its website. Results were reported in the ILC/INS newsletter and in a report to the INS Board.
Project ID:
5.014
Client Name:
International Liason of INS
Sponsor:
International Neuropsychological Society (INS)
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
723 members of the INS who reside outside of the United States and Canada
Year:
2005
DMV Customer Satisfaction 2006
Overview:
Statewide RDD telephone survey of DMV customers.
Project ID:
5.032
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
Principal Investigators:
David Hartman
Sample:
1200 (2/3 RDD 1/3 EWP)
Year:
2005
York County Youth Commission
Overview:
The York County Youth Commission is a group of fifteen outstanding high school students selected each year by the Board of Supervisors. The Youth Commission sponsors a triennial opinion survey in all county high schools. The survey results are used to give input on student views and concerns to the Board of Supervisors survey results have directly impacted policy decisions in the past. The project covered two paper questionnaires. CSR entered the data and presented the client with an excel file containing the data.
Project ID:
5.015
Sponsor:
The Youth Commission is a group of fifteen outstanding high school students selected each year by the Board of Supervisors. The Youth Commission sponsors a triennial opinion survey in all county high schools.
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
The first questionnaire was administered to 3600 hight school students. The second was administered to 400 high school students.
Year:
2005
American Medical Student Association (AMSA) - NPCW 2005
Overview:
CSR prepared questionnaires that were made available to attendees at the annual American Medical Student Association Foundation (AMSA) conference in November 2005. CSR received the responses gathered from that event and tabulated them. Three different evaluation surveys were utilized one for Student Leader Evaluation another for Area Health Education Centers and the last for NHSC Ambassador Evaluations.
Project ID:
5.033
Client Name:
AMSA Project Manager
Sponsor:
American Medical Student Association Foundation (AMSA)
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
Attendees at the annual American Medical Student Association (AMSA) conference for National Primary Care Week (NPCW)
Year:
2005
PWC Organizational Survey 2005 (Employee Satisfaction)
Overview:
Prince William County commissioned the Center for Survey Research to conduct a survey of all full- and part-time employees to assess the degree to which the County's employees are "living out" the vision and values adopted in recent years by the County's leadership team. The values include respect integrity creativity teamwork excellence and responsibility. The U.Va. Research team will test to see whether higher levels of teamwork engagement and proactivity are linked to evaluations of the external and internal services received and delivered by employees.
Project ID:
5.016
Sponsor:
Prince William County
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
At the time of the survey PWC reported that 3376 part- and full-time employees were working for the county. Of the 2662 employees who participated in the survey 794 (30%) chose the paper version of the survey and 1868 (70%) chose the on-line version
Year:
2005
Albemarle County Citizen Satisfaction 2006
Overview:
Biannual citizen satisfaction survey
Project ID:
6.001
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
700
Year:
2006
UVA Economic Impact Analysis
Overview:
This study was requested by the UVA President’s Office to measure the impact of the University on the local and state economies. This was the fourth study commissioned by the Weldon Cooper Center and its predecessor. The most recent study was published in 1990. The 2005-2006 study was co-directed by John L. Knapp and William H. Shobe. The survey included a sample of the faculty and administration the clerical and technical staff the service and maintenance workers and the students. The questionnaire was programmed into Sensus Web for all four groups with a mail-out component for service and maintenance workers who may not have computer access.
Project ID:
5.017
Principal Investigators:
Deborah Rexrode
Sample:
Completed by 962 graduate students and 796 faculty/staff members of UVA an overall total of 1758.
Year:
2005
West Philadelphia Community Health Priorities Survey
Overview:
RDD phone survey on community priorities for health promotion and disease prevention conducted to learn more about the health issues and concerns that are important to people who live in West or Southwest Philadelphia.
Project ID:
6.002
Client Name:
Professor Chanita Hughes Halbert University of Pennsylvania
Sponsor:
National Institutes of Health
Principal Investigators:
Robin Bebel
Sample:
RDD sample of West Philadelphia area screened to yield African Americans age 22 and older. 202 completed the survey.
Year:
2006
Fairfax DFS Client Satisfaction Survey
Overview:
The 2005 Fairfax County Department of Family Services (DFS) Customer Satisfaction Survey was conducted during the fall of 2005. Survey packets were mailed to the home ad-dresses of 3 500 DFS customers. The response rate for this survey is 41.9 percent. The questionnarie was available in five languages in addition to English. The purpose of the survey was to assess the level of client satifaction with services provided by DFS and determine the major factors that impact the level of satisfaction.
Project ID:
5.018
Client Name:
Fairfax Countuy Department of Family Services
Sponsor:
Fairfax County Department of Family Services
Principal Investigators:
David Hartman
Sample:
Out of sample of 3500 1281 complete
Year:
2005
PWC Citizen Satisfaction 2006
Overview:
Annual citizen satisfaction survey.
Project ID:
6.003
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Year:
2006
UVA Cancer Center CIM - Patients/Family
Overview:
The self-administered questionnaires collected by the sponsor at UVA's cancer clinics investigated patient and family familiarity with usage and assessment of complementary and alternative cancer treatments and the Cancer Center's programs for integrative care.
Project ID:
5.02
Sponsor:
UVA Cancer Center
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
175 patients in clinic sampled 90 complete 125 family members sampled 54 complete.
Year:
2005
Rockville Internal Satisfaction Survey
Overview:
Evaluation of employee level of satisfaction with internal services of the city government.
Project ID:
6.004
Principal Investigators:
Robin Bebel
Sample:
532 employees
Year:
2006
Schwenzer - Moral Distress
Overview:
The research addressed moral distress in respiratory care practitioners. CSR's role was to conduct analysis of the data and advise the client on interpreting the data.
Project ID:
5.022
Sponsor:
Karen Schwenzer
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Year:
2005
C-TPAT - ViaTech Systems
Overview:
Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) is a voluntary government-business initiative established by Customs Border Patrol following the September 11 terrorist attacks. The main purpose of C-TPAT is to build cooperate relationships that strengthen and improve overall international supply chain and U.S. border security. The project was a survey of C-TPAT members to understand the benefits of being a C-TPAT partner and to track the costs and return on investment of being associated with C-TPAT membership. The project included an SME (Subject Matter Expert) workshop semi-structured interviews a pilot study and a web questionnaire.
Project ID:
6.007
Client Name:
Victor & Eric Kan Paul Howard Jaime Ramsey
Sponsor:
Customs and Border Patrol U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
All companies enrolled in the C-TPAT program (about 6000 firms)
Year:
2006
VITA Customer Satisfaction Survey
Overview:
VITA commissioned the Center for Survey Research (CSR) at the University of Virginia in August 2005 to conduct a survey of in-scope agencies. The purpose of the survey was to assess customer satisfaction with the services provided by VITA. The survey was conducted in two phases. Phase 1 consisted of a pilot study involving semi-structured telephone interviews with a small sample of customers to identify key issues perceptions and opportunities to be covered in a census survey. Phase 2 was a web-based survey addressed to all agency directors and IT managers of in-scope agencies. Of the 151 agency directors and IT department managers 89 completed the web-based survey.
Project ID:
5.023
Client Name:
Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA)
Sponsor:
Virginia Information Technologies Agency
Principal Investigators:
David Hartman
Sample:
Semi Struct 6 Web 130
Year:
2005
Albemarle County Leverage Analysis
Overview:
Conducted leverage analysis to determine how the delivery of county services impact on citizen satisfaction
Project ID:
5.024
Client Name:
Albemarle County
Sponsor:
Albemarle County
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
Used data obtained in the Albemarle Strategic Planning Survey
Year:
2005
Survey of Attitudes on Critical Infrastructure Protection Vulnerability and Public Confidence
Overview:
CSR fielded a national RDD sample survey to determine the public's confidence in critical infrastruture in case of terrorist attacks. Results are to be compared with Virginia Maryland and Washington DC data collected by GMU's survey center.
Project ID:
5.007
Client Name:
Public Policy George Mason University
Sponsor:
National Capital Region Project funded by the Department of Homeland Security
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
National RDD sample excluding Washington DC Northern Virginia and Maryland 1145 completed interviews.
Year:
2005
TNE - Semi-structured Ivs
Overview:
The purpose of the study was to discover if and how this small number of students thought their Religious Studies training had prepared them well for teaching.
Project ID:
5.025
Sponsor:
This project was supported by a Teachers for a New Era mini-grant from the Education school at UVA.
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
Respondents were UVA alumni Religious Studies majors who had also received a Masters in Teaching.
Year:
2005
NW3C Survey of white Collar Crime
Overview:
National survey on public attitudes about crimes such as fraud and embezzlement. Respondents were given short scenarios and were asked to rate the seriousness of the crime. In another section of the questionnaire respondents were asked about incidents of crime that they experienced and what they did about it such as report the crime to the police call the Better Business Bureau or other agencies.
Project ID:
5.008
Client Name:
National White Collar Crime Center
Sponsor:
National White Collar Crime Center
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
RDD nationwide telephone survey 1500 completes
Year:
2005

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