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.
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
Charlottesville Planning Needs 2006
Overview:
Study of neighborhood needs.
Project ID:
5.026
Client Name:
Director of Neighborhood Planning
Sponsor:
City of Charlottesville Va. Department of Neighborhood Planning and Development
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
2000
Year:
2005
VITA (Consulting)
Overview:
Consultation services were provided to the agency to design a customer satisfaction survey and possibly an employee satisfaction survey.
Project ID:
5.009
Client Name:
Virginia Information Technologies Agency
Sponsor:
Virginia Information Technologies Agency
Principal Investigators:
David Hartman
Year:
2005
Spotsylvania County Citizen Satisfaction 2005
Overview:
This survey was designed to determine residents' opinions about quality of life in Spotsylvania County to determine residents' level of satisfaction with a number of services the County provides and to measure citizen opinion about the way in which the County is managing growth and development. Of particular interest was whether or not citizen opinion has changed on some key issues since the 2004 survey also conducted by CSR.
Project ID:
5.027
Client Name:
Deputy County Administrator Spotsylvania County
Sponsor:
County of Spotsylvania Virginia
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
803 residents of Spotsylvania County Virginia
Year:
2005
Arlington Early Childhood
Overview:
The Arlington Partnership for Children Youth and Families through the Arlington County Department of Human Service contacted CSR to conduct an Early Childhood Survey pretest in Arlington County. A focus group and pretest were conducted to develop a questionnaire for client use. Pretest results revealed that conducting this survey using RDD telephone mode is not practical.
Project ID:
5.01
Client Name:
Arlington Partnership for Children
Sponsor:
Arlington Partnership for Children
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
RDD Pretest - 55 complete 16
Year:
2005
Center for Politics - 2005 Governor's Race
Overview:
Post election survey with oversample of youth
Project ID:
5.028
Client Name:
Center for Politics
Sponsor:
UVA Center for Politics
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
RDD 800 plus 250 youth targeted
Year:
2005
DMV Wait-Time Timing Study
Overview:
The study was designed to obtain estimates of the average median and range of wait times customers spend in line at the information desk. The study was prompted by legislation passed by the 2005 Session of the Virginia General Assembly that requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to determine the effects of reducing or increasing average customer wait times. As part of the effort to determine the wait time DMV commissioned the Center for Survey Research (CSR) University of Virginia to carry out the field study.
Project ID:
5.011
Client Name:
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
Sponsor:
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Year:
2005
UVA Honor Survey for Faculty
Overview:
Survey of faculty knowledge and experience with the Honor System.
Project ID:
5.029
Sponsor:
The Honor Committee & Uva Office of the VP and Provost
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
All Uva teaching faculty and graduate teaching assistants.
Year:
2005
Darden 2nd Year 2005
Overview:
This annual survey aims to assess education experience of 1st year and 2nd year students at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. It covers a broad range of topics including classroom experience curriculum faculty social activities career service facilities and admission process of 1st year students. The Darden Students Association administers two online questionnaires (one for 1st year and one for 2nd year) at the end of every academic year and the raw data is then forwarded to CSR for analysis. The role of CSR is to generate statistical reports and compile and process open-end responses for each questionnaire usually in a 2-week period.
Project ID:
5.012
Client Name:
Darden Students Association
Sponsor:
Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
The sample size of the 2006 2nd year survey was 180 and the sample size of 2006 1st year survey is about 280.
Year:
2005
PWC Organizational Survey 2006
Overview:
The purpose of this survey was to assess employee satisfaction with their work environment and whether or not employees are living out the County's vision and values. Of the 2662 employees who participated in the survey 794 chose the paper version of the survey and 1 868 chose the online version. The survey response rate is 78.9% an impressive turnout and an improvement over the 70% response rate for the 2004 Organizational survey.
Project ID:
5.03
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
3500 employees sample 2662 (79%) complete
Year:
2005
Race & Anxiety
Overview:
CSR assisted with data entry of forms filled out by community participants in a social psychology experiment.
Project ID:
3.024
Sponsor:
Monnica Williams PhD student in Psychology UVa
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Year:
2003
Stafford County Employee Satisfaction 2004
Overview:
The 2004 Stafford County Employee Survey was administered to Stafford County's 756 full- and part-time employees to gain feedback regarding work-related issues that would help in the development of a more participative form of governance. In order to determine the significant items that drive employee satisfaction questions were divided into key-topic areas.
Project ID:
4.019
Client Name:
Stafford County
Sponsor:
Stafford County
Principal Investigators:
David Hartman
Sample:
County facilitators administered questionnaires during group sessions available to all 756 county employees. Completed questionnaires were received from 596 employees.
Year:
2004
Engineering Expertise
Overview:
Employee network study to look at inter-relationships working group. Both workers and their supervisors had specialized web instruments with customized email invitations to participate.
Project ID:
3.025
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
Selected from participants of targeted project
Year:
2003
PWC Citizen Satisfaction 2005
Overview:
The thirteenth in an annual series of citizen surveys rating quality of life satisfaction with specific Prince William County services plus general satisfaction with government services. This is the fifth Prince William County survey to use the alternating-questions survey format. This year's survey included a series on the importance of specified planning goals as well as mental health services and efforts in historic preservation.
Project ID:
4.02
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
Telephone sample of 1432 randomly selected Prince William County adults county-wide RDD sample was supplemented with sample of directory-listed households in less populated areas of the County
Year:
2004
Community Engagement of Older Americans
Overview:
Literature review for a planned assessment of social and political involvement of older Americans.
Project ID:
3.999
Sponsor:
AARP
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Year:
2003
Faculty and TA Perspectives on Student Use of Alcohol and Drugs
Overview:
Sample survey of U.Va. teaching faculty and teaching assistants to explore their perceptions of student use of alcohol and other drugs. Questions asked whether teaching in the classroom is affected by student alchohol use whether faculty are aware of resources at the University to deal with alcohol and drug issues whether faculty incorporate alcohol issues in their teaching and faculty interest in further information and training on these issues.
Project ID:
4.021
Client Name:
Director CASE (Center for Alcohol and Substance Education)
Sponsor:
U.Va. Alcohol Advisory Committee and the Office of the Vice President and Chief Student Affairs Officer
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock & Susan Bruce
Sample:
544 web completions (437 faculty 107 teaching assistants)
Year:
2004
LGOC
Overview:
A survey conducted to generate material for discussion at the 2004 Local Government Officials Conference in Norfolk Virginia. Respondents were asked about the goals of the locality and for opinions about the services of local government as well as the challenges in their own local government and ideas for solutions. They also rated services on the Web and relationships with the state government.
Project ID:
4.001
Client Name:
Local Government Officials Conference
Sponsor:
U.Va. Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock & Kate Wood
Sample:
Sample of 1600 Virignia local officials 447 completed the survey. Sampled groups included County supervisors city councillors Treasurers Commissioners of Revenue Clerks of the Courts Sheriffs and Commonwealth's Attorneys.
Year:
2004
PWC - Leverage Analysis 2004
Overview:
The data collected in the 2004 Citizen Satisfaction survey was used to determine drivers of citizen satisfaction.
Project ID:
4.022
Sponsor:
Prince William County
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
PWC residents
Year:
2004
PWC Citizen Satisfaction 2004
Overview:
This is the fourth Prince William County survey to use the alternating-questions survey format. This format implemented in January 2001 by the County government and CSR staff to control survey length contains core questions to be asked each year and two sets of questions included in the survey in alternate years. The purpose of this year's survey was to assess citizen satisfaction with services offered in the County to compare satisfaction levels with those reported in previous survey and to continue annual measurement of overall perception of quality of life in Prince William County.
Project ID:
4.002
Principal Investigators:
Tom Guterbock
Sample:
1414 randomly selected individuals living in Prince William County
Year:
2004
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