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Funded by NIH P30 NCI Supplement. Survey of University of Virginia Cancer Center's catchment area to capture residents' health behaviors, cancer knowledge and attitudes, and demographic characteristics. Study design combined probability and non-probability sampling techniques and collected responses by mail, web, phone, and in- person efforts across catchment region.
CSR programmed instruments originally hosted on another web platform into Qualtrics. CSR did not collect any data.
Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services (NCS) commissioned CSR to conduct their annual Customer Satisfaction Survey for five centers/services: 1) Human Services Transportation (HST), 2) Senior Centers (SC), 3) Community Centers , 4) Teen Centers, and 5) Technology Centers. CSR conducted the data collection for HST and SC, which was administered by mail and web. Fairfax NCS collected data for CC, Teen, and Tech Centers.
The ASNE Newsroom Employment Diversity Survey has been conducted annually since 1978. The survey measures diversity of employees within newsrooms with respect to race, ethnicity and gender. NLA (formerly ASNE) has the goal of having the percentage of minorities working in newsrooms nationwide equal to the percentage of minorities in teh nation's population by 2025. The survey data is used by NLE to track newsroom employment trends to assess success of meeting this goal.
CSR assisted with questionnaire design and pretesting for a planned survey of Virginia Nurses, including cognitive interviews with 14 UVa nurses who pre-tested the draft instrument. The questionnaire explored nurses' views of the advantages and disadvantages of 12-hour vs 8-hour work shifts, taking into account personal needs and benefits to patients and work teams. The final instrument was fielded by the Virginia Nursing Association, polling their membership.
CSR assisted visiting international student Sherry Mohsin (Durr e Shahwar Mohsin Ul Haq) with data analysis in SPSS and Stata of survey data she collected in Punjab designed to measure womens' empowerment in agriculture. CSR assisted with analysis only and did not charge a fee for this educational work.
The UVA Center for Survey Research (CSR) assisted the Batten Institute to design and execute a confidential self-administered survey (mail out and web) of a large sample of alumni of the University of Virginia. CSR assisted in the development of the survey questionnaire. The survey was designed to capture information to inform an estimate of the economic impact of entrepreneurial ventures in which Uva alumni have been involved or which they founded. The survey also was designed to support an analysis of factors that may be related to engagement in entrepreneurial activities.
This phase of the 2009 Reston Community Center project was specifically for the purpose of designing and developing the project. Time was spent consulting with the client and the Reston Board of Supervisors on the content of the survey and the protocol for implementing the study which included a CSR experimental design. CSR worked directly with the Reston Community Center Director to define the experimental protocol which involved the use of an address-based sampling plan.
CSR gave technical assistance to Jose Mattos MD-MPH student at UVa. for a project analyzing data on ear nose and throat diagnoses from the National Ambulatory Care Survey a large annual data collectiion funded by CDC. The study focused on changes over time in presentation of asthma and other complaints separating data by demographic groups. Data for specific ailments and years had to be extracted from multiple NAMCS data sets. Due to the weighting scheme used in this data set complex sampling analysis methods in STATA needed to be applied to the custom-built final data set..
Prince William County commissioned the Center for Survey Research to conduct its fourth biennial survey of all full and part-time employees. The purpose of the survey was to assess employee satisfaction with their work environment and whether or not employees are living out the county's vision and values.
This survey of US and Canadian physicians attempted to find out more about attititudes and perceptions that might effect decisions about where & how to practice medicine repeating a study from 2007 and adding a Web component to the data collection. The questionnaire was designed to try to better understand the pressures facing practicing physicians today by identifying the challenges as well as the satisfactions of the profession. The content of the survey addressed physician satisfaction and attitudes about the practice of medicine in general and the aspects of medicine that physicians like and dislike.
The purpose of the 2009 Reston Community Center Citizen Satisfaction Survey was to assess current and projected future use of programs and facilities as well as citizen priorities for recreational needs within the context of anticipated increases in population and tax base related to the metro Silver Line. The survey introduced new questions to assess the community’s priorities for indoor recreational facilities and to provide information for discussions about budget and growth decisions for the future.
Working with researchers at the University of South Florida CSR designed and fielded this vignette-based factorial web survey to investigate whether clinical trials could be identified where the interests of trial patients and future patients come into balance or "equipoise." Deployed on a customized website hosted by CSR the web survey presented each expert respondent--recruited from Institutional Review Board members at the 122 U.S. American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) schools--with four pairs of randomized clinical trial vignettes followed by a ninth "bonus" vignette of a type that matched one of the previous four pairs. In each of the nine vignettes seven aspects of each scenario could be randomly varied resulting in over 1 000 possible variations covering different phases of hypothetical clinical trials involving rheumatoid arthritis and pancreatic cancer patients.
The goal of this web survey was to evaluate the effect of programs sponsored by Computing Research Associates that promote careers in computing research fields for women and minorities and that provide support to students who seek to pursue careers in these fields. A total of 412 students from a national sample of students who had graduated from an undergraduate program in computing completed the on-line questionnaire. The study found significant positive differences between those who participated in CRA programs compared to others.
Surveys to evaluate general knowledge and the impact of education efforts regarding natural gas safety on the general population and on businesses and excavators working in the area. Work replicates studies done in 2008.
The goal of this survey was to replicate a set of surveys done in 2007 and 2008 which gathered information about how high school seniors and their families make choices about college. The surveys were focused particularly on financial concerns or limitations. The Center for Survey Research (CSR) was contracted by the researchers (Sarah Turner Professor of Economics & Education at the University of Virginia and Christopher Avery Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University) to conduct the survey and collect the data. Although many of the same questions were asked this year’s protocol did differ significantly from the 2007/2008 survey design most notably the survey was only administered to students and only in the spring. Because many high school seniors could still be under eighteen years old when they were first recruited for the survey parental consent was required before they could be contacted. Responses were collected via the Internet and on paper forms.
Annual Citizen Satisfaction Survey for Prince William County VA was based on a dual-frame sample that included Random Digit Dialing of landline phones and cell phones. The survey included new questions introduced in 2008 to track changes related to the County's illegal immigration enforcement policy. This year's results showed significant increases in many satisfaction items.
Semi-structured tape recorded telephone interviews with selected residents of Prince William County to probe more deeply into opinions about the County’s illegal immigration enforcement policy. Results were analyzed qualitatively for use in the final report of the 2-year evaluation study of the policy carried out by CSR and PERF.
CSR and LCDFS collaborated to design three survey questionnaires. A) web-based survey of human services programs in the county to help understand the array of human services resources already in place b) mail survey sent to 2 200 households in Loudoun and c) “lobby survey” placed at ten human service agencies for clients to fill out and return anonymously.
Project design used a stakeholders workshop about and two focus groups to guide the creation of a viable instrument that was used for both main resident distribution and for the agency lobbies. CSR and LCDFS also added a community assets inventory to inform discussions about resources already in-hand. CSR provided all analysis and a full written report of the findings from the surveys.
Project design used a stakeholders workshop about and two focus groups to guide the creation of a viable instrument that was used for both main resident distribution and for the agency lobbies. CSR and LCDFS also added a community assets inventory to inform discussions about resources already in-hand. CSR provided all analysis and a full written report of the findings from the surveys.
Since 2001 CSR has conducted data analysis of First year and Second Year student surveys for the Darden School. This year CSR was asked to do data analysis for the Second Year only. The analysis includes mean ratings and cross tabulations by demographic variables by year and comparison across years.
The Fairfax County Department of Family Services survey is a client satisfaction survey. The survey is a self-administered paper survey that is mailed to clients’ home addresses. The survey was mailed to a random sample of 3500 clients. The survey also included a telephone follow-up to approximately 25% of the non-respondents. All questionnaires were made available in English and five additional languages Vietnamese Farsi Spanish Korean and Arabic. This was the second survey conducted for the Fairfax County Department of Family Services.
This was a web-based survey of 23 employees of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company comparable to a previous survey in 2007. The questionnaire covered employee satisfaction with rewards facilities training empowerment teamwork creativity workplace environment hiring and retention directors managers and CEO and overall satisfaction.
CSR also consulted to UVA ITC as they prepared results for publication on their web page using the data from the 2008 survey of IT users which was titled Information Technology and the Future of the University. The survey involved advance letters to inform participants about the study and ask for their participation mailed on November 19 2008 to the 3 400 people in the sample. Letters to students contained a $2 bill as an incentive to participate following the principles of social exchange theory outlined in Dillman’s Tailored Design Method. Most of the letters were sent via UVA Messenger Mail while several hundred were sent to off-Grounds addresses by first class U.S. mail. The median length of time to complete the interview was 18 minutes. A total of 1 525 questionnaires were completed. The overall unweighted response rate for the survey was 44.9%. Among the sampling groups response rates were highest for undergraduates (57.8%) and lowest for graduate students (36.1%). With 1 525 (5.3%) of the estimated qualified reachable population of 29 012 responding the margin of error for questions answered by all respondents in this survey is ±2.4% at the 95% level of confidence.
In spring 2009 the Division of Onsite Sewage and Water Services in the Office of Environmental Health at the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) contracted with the Center for Survey Research (CSR) at the University of Virginia to design and conduct a survey of Virginia residents regarding proposed emergency regulations for alternative onsite sewage systems. In spring 2009 the Division of Onsite Sewage and Water Services in the Office of Environmental Health at the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) contracted with the Center for Survey Research (CSR) at the University of Virginia to design and conduct a survey of Virginia residents regarding proposed emergency regulations for alternative onsite sewage systems.
Telephone survey of randomly contacted residents of Washington DC and the areas of Virginia and Maryland considered to be part of the National Capital Region. Contact was made by listed sample RDD and cell phone. The project was a collaborative effort among the emergency management agencies of DC and its five surrounding states (Virginia Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania and West Virginia.) The survey gathered information on people’s preparedness trust in information sources special needs likely evacuation destinations and routes and other information needed by the emergency management agencies to prepare their plans for a possible man-made emergency in the area. A full report was prepared in addition to multiple presentations for stakeholders and emergency planners and responders.
This panel study of barriers to access to the HPV vaccine and how they can be overcome was based on a sample of caregivers of girls eligible for the vaccine (11-12 yrears old) that was obtained from physician records at UVA's Medical Center. Three waves of girls representing all eligible girls in the three months prior to data collection were contacted. This allowed sufficient numbers in the sample for analysis.
CSR created a web-based version of an instructional survey exercise for use in Prof. Guterbock's Spring 2008 undergraduate research methods class. The web-based tool was used by students in the class to enter data from interviews they conducted concerning people's awareness and beliefs about Groundhog Day.
CSR worked with client to improve clarity and flow of IHS draft web survey instrument. CSR also provided advice on survey protocol and post survey weighting of the realized sample.
CSR staff consulted to SERL-VCU to support the 2008 Chesterfield County Triennial School Census. Activities included advice on Access database structure SPSS analysis to produce census counts and written technical notes on the process.
A telephone study of residents in the Danville Metropolitan Statistical Region to assess the level of social capital in the region. The study measured how people feel about the region and the future of the area and how people’s feelings affect their behavior. The study seeks to identify the cultural and social factors that are changing in the area and ways the Danville Regional Foundation can address those needs.
CSR staff consulted to SERL-VCU to support the 2008 Richmond City Triennial School Census. Activities included advice on Access database structure SPSS analysis to produce census counts and written technical notes on the process.
This brief report is a supplement to the 2008 Prince William County Citizen Satisfaction Survey. For the present analysis the complete 2008 dataset was divided into 3 sub-datasets RDD & targeted listed (the original landline design) RDD & Targeted Listed & General Listed (the modified landline design) and RDD & Targeted Listed & General Listed & Cell-Phone (the new design). With regards to the results analysis of the different 2008 sub-datasets indicates no clear direction of the impact of change in design. The results were mixed as some items showed significant increase in satisfaction ratings while other showed significant decrease in satisfaction ratings depending on which designs are used to compare the years.
CSR assisted faculty researchers and SJSU and UVA to analyze a student survey and student assessment instrument. The purpose was to evalute the impact of a curriculum intervention regarding teaching MEB (Material and Energy Balance) in chemical engineering courses. Students at six colleges participated SJSU Iowa St. University of Tennessee Lafayette UMBC and Texas A&M.
The third iteration of a survey to assess the level of satisfaction of Rockville employees with the internal services offered to them by the various departments of the City government. The original instrument was designed with CSR guidance it has since been editted and is now distributed anonymously by Rockville City staff and returned in sealed envelopes that are sent to CSR for data entry analysis and reporting.
As part of the 2009 Virginia add-on to the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) Virginia Department of Transportation asked CSR to administer the NHTS instrument to U.Va. Students. U.Va. Worked in conjunction with researchers at VCU ODU and Virginia Tech to convert the original telephone instrument to a web survey. The travel diary and study protocol was customized to a University setting. Students (n=1003 at U.Va.) provided trip diary information for randomly pre-assigned travel days allowing analysis of origin destination data. The data will allow transportation modelers to improve transportation models for the college-age population that is normally under-represented in the NHTS in University communities.
In collaboration with the Police Executive Research Forum CSR completed a comprehensive two year multi-method evaluation of the illegal immigration policy adopted in 2007 by Prince William County Va. The study resulted in an interim report in 2009 and a final report released in November 2010. Data from annual citizen surveys of the County were supplemented by police data key informant interviews and supplementary semi-structured interviews with residents and community leaders.
CSR conducted reminder calling to encourage participation with a JMU web-based survey of recent grads. CSR contacted over 700 non respondents attempting 1154 open cases out of 2000.
CSR programming staff created a relational database in Access to track membership and participant information for AASRO at the individual and organizational level. (AASRO is an association of organizations not individuals.) CSR also designed ballot materials and carried out the logistics for AASRO's first election of officers in January 2009.
Third biennial survey of 700 Albemarle County residents focuses on satisfaction with County services and the relative importance of those services. Trends from year to year are analyzed and emerging issues explored. This year the traditional RDD sample of residents was supplemented with cell phone numbers and those listed in a telephone directory.
Web and mail survey designed to assess employees’ satisfaction with their work environment and give employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas and opinions to help make the City of Charlottesville a better place to work. CSR had previously conducted a similar survey for the City in 2006. The survey was conducted from June 2 to July 23 2010. List of all full and part-time city employees supplied by the client. Of the 903 employees invited to do the survey 389 completed the survey by web and 120 completed the survey on paper. A total of 509 employees participated overall which is a 56% response rate.
CSR worked with an interdisciplinary team and consultants from the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) to plan and budget research activities needed for an evaluation of the new police policy on immigration enforcment in Prince William County VA. The project to be carried out over a two year period involves both quantitative and qualititive research activities. The planning phase culminated in the award of a contract from PWC for the main phase of the project.
) U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department of Homeland Security asked the Center for Survey Research at the University of Virginia to conduct a cost-benefit survey of C-TPAT partners. ViaTech Systems Inc. issued a purchase order establishing the Center for Survey Research as a subcontractor to conduct the requested surveys. The first survey was designed to assess overall satisfaction with the C-TPAT program. The second survey included more details regarding implementation and benefits. The final survey was designed to be a cost analysis survey.
CSR assisted faculty researchers at San Jose State University to evaluate a curriculum experiment for teaching MEB (Material and Energy Balance). The SJSU researchers and their partners administered paper surveys of students at five universities at the end of the course and web-based surveys to faculty who teach chemical engineering. There were 126 completed student surveys and 62 completed faculty surveys. CSR performed data manipulation and data analysis.
Since 2006 the University of Virginia Health Services Foundation has conducted an Employee Engagement Survey. This survey which is based on the Q12 questions developed by the Gallup Research Group is directed to all HSF employees including Directors Managers Supervisors Health Care providers and all Other General Staff. Every year HSF commissions CSR to analyze its Employee Engagement survey data and to present a summary report of the findings.
This was a survey of all fourth year undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences. Students were asked to participate in the survey in the early spring just prior to graduation. The survey ask students what they anticipated their "first destination" to be upon graduation. Students were then surveyed in the fall immediately following graduation to see how closely their information matched what they actually did after graduation.
CSR staff consulted to SERL-VCU to support the 2008 Washington County Triennial School Census. Activities included advice on Access database structure SPSS analysis to produce census counts and written technical notes on the process.
This was a mail survey of a random sample of 1 329 physicians in the U.S. and Canada stratified by country and physician type (general practitioner or specialist). The survey asked physicians about opinions about the direction of the profession in general aids and hindrances to practicing medicine time spent on various activities as a percentage of the typical day impacts of insurance companies and governments patient relationships perceived support from various types of organizations opinions about physician advocacy opinions about pharmaceutical companies and demographics. The protocol included an advance letter a survey packet with a $2 U.S. Jefferson bill for U.S. physicians or a $2 Canadian coin (“toonie”) as a token of appreciation a generic thank-you/reminder post card a second survey packet sent by two-day Priority Mail to nonrespondents a second thank-you/reminder post card to nonrespondents and telephone reminder calls to nonrespondents. The unweighted AAPOR RR3 response rate was 25.9% (26.7% U.S. 23.8% Canadian).
Instrument to be developed for mail-out survey about effect on anesthesiologists of adverse event in OR including most recent most memorable and all events pretest results used for grant submission for production study
CSR advised on and formatted the questionnaire developed and hosted an online signup database and entered data for the REACH project study wherein low income participants engage in several rounds of hypothetical group decisions regarding health choices and trade-offs.
The Social Norms Study is about the Health Promotion Alcohol Survey which is developed by the Office of Health Promotion in the Department of Student Health in order to collect information on alcohol use perceptions behaviors and attitudes among University of Virginia students. By collecting normative information annually the program is able to continue a social norms campaign that is relevant to UVa undergraduates. The data is also used to study the effectiveness of the social norms approach. Every year the Center for Survey Research (CSR) advises the office in sampling design and weight the final collected data for analysis purposes.
Cancer Center - Catchment Area Health Assessment Survey
Funded by NIH P30 NCI Supplement. Survey of University of Virginia Cancer Center's catchment area to capture residents' health behaviors, cancer knowledge and attitudes, and demographic characteristics. Study design combined probability and non-probability sampling techniques and collected responses by mail, web, phone, and in- person efforts across catchment region.
Sample
Mixed-probability sampling. Probability sample included mail-out to ABS of 2,767 households, as well as cell-phone calling to RDD and smart cell samples. Study employed adaptive sampling design with second phase of cell phone calling targeted to underrepresented groups in survey response. Non-probability efforts included in-person outreach by community health educators and online social media recruitment.
Survey Mode
Phone, Mail, Web, In-person
Survey Type
Health Related, Regional and Statewide
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Project Coordinator
Kara Fitzgibbon
Client Name
Roger Anderson
Client Type
Academic researchers within your institution
Sponsor
University of Virginia Cancer Center
Project ID
18.14
Year
2019
Fairfax NCS 2019
Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services (NCS) commissioned CSR to conduct their annual Customer Satisfaction Survey for five centers/services: 1) Human Services Transportation (HST), 2) Senior Centers (SC), 3) Community Centers , 4) Teen Centers, and 5) Technology Centers. CSR conducted the data collection for HST and SC, which was administered by mail and web. Fairfax NCS collected data for CC, Teen, and Tech Centers.
Sample
Sample was drawn from five sources. CSR drew simple random samples of 500 Human Services Transportation customers and 500 Senior Center customers from a population frame provided by client. 465 in-person surveys were collected by NCS county staff for customers of Community Centers, Teen Centers, and Technology Centers. County staff were instructed to collect a certain number of questionnaires based on center size and to sample from a diverse range of ages, genders, and races/ethnicities.
Survey Mode
Mail, Web, In-person
Survey Type
Local Government
Principal Investigators
Kara Fitzgibbon
Project Coordinator
Andrea Negrete
Client Name
Kristen Lasich
Client Type
Local government as direct clients
Sponsor
Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Project ID
19.12
Year
2019
Annual Newsroom Diversity Survey
The ASNE Newsroom Employment Diversity Survey has been conducted annually since 1978. The survey measures diversity of employees within newsrooms with respect to race, ethnicity and gender. NLA (formerly ASNE) has the goal of having the percentage of minorities working in newsrooms nationwide equal to the percentage of minorities in teh nation's population by 2025. The survey data is used by NLE to track newsroom employment trends to assess success of meeting this goal.
Sample
All newsrooms in the United States were eligible to participate in the survey, and a sample of 1,850 newsrooms were identified by ASNE and sent survey requests.
Survey Mode
Web
Survey Type
Nationwide, Statewide, Regional, Educational Research, Organizations – Elite Respondents
Principal Investigators
Kara Fitzgibbon
Client Name
Meredith Clark
Client Type
Academic researchers within your institution
Sponsor
American Association Newsroom Editors
Project ID
19.03
Year
2019
Punjab Women's Empowerment in Agriculture - Sherry Mohsin
CSR assisted visiting international student Sherry Mohsin (Durr e Shahwar Mohsin Ul Haq) with data analysis in SPSS and Stata of survey data she collected in Punjab designed to measure womens' empowerment in agriculture. CSR assisted with analysis only and did not charge a fee for this educational work.
Sample
Women in several agricultural communities in Punjab. Sampling was carried out by the student researcher.
Survey Mode
In-person
Survey Type
Individual Research
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Ms. Mohsin was a visiting international student working with Prof. Rae Blumberg Sociology
Client Type
Academic researchers within your institution
Sponsor
Not funded research
Project ID
19.15
Year
2019
Caregiver Coordination for People with Dementia--Sperling
CSR programmed instruments originally hosted on another web platform into Qualtrics. CSR did not collect any data.
Sample
Clinical population recruited by UVa Neurology Department
Survey Mode
Web
Survey Type
Educational Research, Health-related, Research on UVA
Principal Investigators
Kara Fitzgibbon
Client Name
Scott Sperling
Client Type
Academic researchers within your institution
Sponsor
Department of Neurology, University of Virginia
Project ID
18.24
Year
2018
12-hour Nursing Shift Survey
CSR assisted with questionnaire design and pretesting for a planned survey of Virginia Nurses, including cognitive interviews with 14 UVa nurses who pre-tested the draft instrument. The questionnaire explored nurses' views of the advantages and disadvantages of 12-hour vs 8-hour work shifts, taking into account personal needs and benefits to patients and work teams. The final instrument was fielded by the Virginia Nursing Association, polling their membership.
Sample
Membership of the Virginia Nursing Association. 3,400 nurses, not all of whom would be qualified for the study.
Survey Mode
Web
Survey Type
Health-related
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Beth Quatrara
Client Type
Academic researchers within your institution
Sponsor
Uva School of Nursing
Project ID
17.06
Year
2017
Fairfax NCS 2017 Client Surveys
Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services (NCS) wanted to gather information on Customer Satisfaction for five different centers/services. These included Human Services Transportation (HST) Senior Centers (SC) Community Centers Teen Centers and Technology Centers. CSR reviewed and edited questionnaires ran mail and web surveys for HST and SC entered data gathered by NSC for the other centers and provided data tables for 736 total respondents and a methods report.
Sample
Samples of 500 Senior Center and 500 Human Services Transportation customers. NCS conducted 451 on-site face-to-face interviews at three other types of centers.
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Kristen Lasich
Sponsor
Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services
Project ID
17.1
Year
2017
LVAD Decision Making - Maureen Metzger
We developed a questionnaire fielded it in Qualtrics and then interviewed some respondents in order to improve the questionnaire. Long-term goal of the pilot was to be ready for a larger grant to survey a more comprehensive group of professional DT-LVAD center staff.
Sample
4 clinics chosen from national list of 151 eligible clinics
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Maureen Metzger
Sponsor
UVa School of Nursing
Project ID
17.09
Year
2017
CDA Credential Holders
CSR collaborated with the Council for Professional Recognition to conduct a multi-mode survey in English and Spanish involving web and paper quantitative data collection of 8 500 Child Development Associate credential holders. The project used a responsive design to target subgroups in the sample for which response was lagging. There were 1 600 completed questionnaires.
Sample
Sample of 8500 CDA credential holders proportionally stratified by year of award (3 categories) and type of credential
Survey Mode
Mail & Web
Survey Type
Educational Research Nationwide Statewide Regional
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Project Coordinator
Matt Starnowski
Client Name
Mousumi Sarkar
Client Type
Foundations and non-profits as direct clients
Sponsor
The Council for Professional Recognition
Project ID
17.05
Year
2017
DCR Outdoors Survey 2017
CSR conducted a statewide survey contacting a probability sample of 14 000 addresses by mail. Households were invited to participate by paper or web. Experiments with mail-forward or web-forward protocols and white or brown outgoing envelopes were conducted. The sample was stratified to represent 17 planning districts. The survey was offered in English and Spanish. There were 3 252 completed surveys. A companion "crowd-sourced" survey was conducted garnering 2 389 responses. The demographics of the respondents and patterns of response differed across the sample and the crowd-sourced datasets.
Sample
Address-based sample disproportionately stratified by 17 Planning District Councils or equivalents yielding 3252 usable responses. Companion "crowd-sourced" survey by web yielding 2389 responses.
Survey Type
Nationwide Statewide Regional
Principal Investigators
James Ellis & Tom Guterbock
Project Coordinator
Kara Fitzgibbon
Client Name
Janit Llewellyn Allen
Sponsor
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Project ID
17.03
Year
2017
Charlottesville City Employee Survey 2017
Web and paper survey designed to assess employees’ satisfaction with their work environment and give employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas and opinions to help make the City of Charlottesville a better place to work. CSR had previously conducted similar surveys for the City in 2006 2010 2012 and 2014.
Sample
All full and part-time employees of the City of Charlotte
Principal Investigators
James Ellis & Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Galloway Beck
Sponsor
City of Charlottesville
Project ID
17.02
Year
2017
Culpeper Schools Youth Behavior Survey Analysis
An anonymous web-based survey of all students in grades 7 to 12 enrolled in Culpeper County Public Schools (Culpeper VA). The questionnaire was based in part on the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey with additional custom questions. CSR hosted the survey eliminated bad cases analyzed results and delivered a full narrative report to the School Board. Result will be used to improve interventions and decrease risks for students.
Sample
All students in 7th-12th grades in Culpeper County Public Schools surveyed anonymously in their classrooms via Web.
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Russell Houck
Sponsor
Culpeper County Schools
Project ID
17.01
Year
2017
ORB International 7-country project 2017
After data were collected by local vendors on behalf of ORB International CSR applied base weights and post-stratification weights (using iterative rim weighting also known as raking methods) to results from each country. Final weighted data files were delivered to ORB for delivery to the project sponsor. CSR also worked with ORB in completing the methods reports for each country which included calculating design effects.
Sample
Multi-stage area probability samples of general population of Kenya Nigeria Ghana Senegal Tanzania Tunisia and South Africa.
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Cara Carter
Project ID
16.17
Year
2016
UVa Transportation Mode Split Survey
In consultation with the UVa Department of Parking and Transportation CSR conducted an online and paper-based survey of faculty and staff opinions about transportation modes and issues related to their employment at UVa. The survey was aimed at determining modes of transportation used to commute to work perceived barriers to using alternative modes for those who commute alone in automobiles general opinions about transportation modes and issues and demographic information to aid in the analysis and interpretation of the data.
Sample
A sample of 1200 UVa faculty and staff in three groups
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Jon Monceaux
Sponsor
UVa Parking and Transportation
Project ID
16.14
Year
2016
UVa Facilities Management Customer Survey
Online survey administered to customers of UVA Facilities Management services. This survey is conducted annually (since 2013) by UVA Facilities Management who contracted with CSR to perform the analysis and reporting.
Sample
Provided by client from QuestionPro. Any UVA employee who used Facilities Management services in the previous year was invited to take survey. Final cleaned data set included 51 completes from the 2016 survey.
Client Name
Reggie Steppe
Sponsor
UVa Facilities Management
Project ID
16.13
Year
2016
CTE Completers 2016-2017
CSR provided technical and user support to all school divisions in Virginia as they sought to include all CTE completer students from the prior school year. CSR also provided websites for data collection and reporting (contracted through UVa Custom Applications and Consulting Services) communication data analysis and reporting.
Sample
All CTE Completer students in Virginia are asked to fill out a survey about one year after graduation.
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
VDOE
Project ID
16.12
Year
2016
Fairfax County NCS 2016 Client Surveys
Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services (NCS) wanted to gather information on Customer Satisfaction for five different centers/services. These included Human Services Transportation (HST) Senior Centers (SC) Community Centers Teen Centers and Technology Centers. CSR reviewed and edited questionnaires ran mail and web surveys for HST and SC entered data gathered by NSC for the other centers and provided data tables for 768 total respondents and a methods report.
Sample
Samples of 500 Senior Center and 500 Human Services Transportation customers. NCS conducted 477 on-site face-to-face interviews at three other types of centers.
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Jesse Ellis
Sponsor
Fairfax County Department of Neighborhood and Community Services
Project ID
16.09
Year
2016
Foothills Forum Additional Data Analysis
At the request of Foothills Forum CSR conducted additional statistical analysis of results from the 2016 Survey of Rappahanock County residents.
Sample
Survey data collected in County-wide survey of Rappahanock County residents
Principal Investigators
Jason Nack & Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Bette Mahoney
Sponsor
Footh9lls Forum Survey Committee
Project ID
16.08
Year
2016
MIT Digital Workplace Survey
CSR provided consutlation on questionnaire design data collection protocols use of Qualtrics software and data analysis strategies including scale construction. CSR programmed the draft survey in Qualtrics and provided the dataset documentation and data analysis recommendations.
Sample
List of contacts at leading businesses around the world provided by MIT researchers
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Kristine Dery
Sponsor
CISR
Project ID
16.07
Year
2016
UVa SCPS Military Outreach: Interviews with ESOs
SCPS was interested in learning more about needs of service members who would be potential students in a new military-oriented degree completion program at UVa. Educational Service Officers were interviewed in depth to learn about particular requirements procedures and student needs for this population. ESO’s also were asked about learning goals and program preferences of military students pursuing college degrees. CSR gathered detailed responses from 8 officers representing all branches of the service. Results were compiled into an internal report which SCPS is using for program development and planning.
Sample
Convenience sample of Educational Service Officers in mid-Atlantic area representing all service branches.
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Allan Fiorello
Sponsor
UVa School of Continuing and Professional Studies
Project ID
16.06
Year
2016
2016 Loudoun County Survey of Residents
The 2016 Loudoun County Survey of Residents was conducted by telephone with a scientifically selected sample of 1 003 county residents. Rural ZIP codes were oversampled. The questionnaire included county services employment willingness to pay higher taxes to improve services or address problems and transportation.
Sample
Triple-frame telephone sample (cell listed random-digit dial) covering Loudoun County
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Beth Hilkemeyer
Project ID
16.05
Year
2016
VDH Adult Tobacco Survey
CSR collaborated with the Virginia Department of Health to conduct a dual-frame (78% cell and 22% landline sample) telephone survey of Virginia residents regarding use of tobacco in various forms use of special offers or coupons to purchase cigarettes desire to quit cessation attempts secondhand smoke opinions about tobacco control policies and demographics. Virginia Tech's Center for Survey Research assisted with data collection.
Sample
Triple frame telephone sample
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Brendan Noggle
Sponsor
VDH Office of Family Health Services
Project ID
16.03
Year
2016
Franklin & Marshall College Trustees Survey 2016
Members of the Board of Trustees at Franklin & Marshall College were sent links to a Qualtrics questionnaire asking them to evaluate the performance of President Daniel R. Porterfield. In its structure and purpose the survey was very similar to a prior edition that was administered to the same population in 2013. The response rate was 100% and a confidential report of results was sent to the Board.
Sample
All 35 members of the F&M Board of Trustees
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Berwood Yost
Sponsor
Floyd Institute for Public Policy Center for Opinion Research
Franklin & Marshall College
Franklin & Marshall College
Project ID
16.01
Year
2016
Smartphone data collection: Matt Gerber Questionnaire Critical Review
CSR assisted Prof. Matt Gerber with revision of a draft survey instrument to be deployed on smartphones of residents of Egg Harbor NJ. The purpose was to obtain real-time reports of their sense of safety in various locations randomly chosen.
Sample
Residents of Egg Harbor NJ
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Matt Gerber
Sponsor
UVa School of Engineering
Project ID
15.18
Year
2015
ORB International Weighting Consultation
CSR consulted with ORB on sample design for multi-stage area probability samples to be drawn in three African countries. After data were collected by local vendors on behalf of ORB CSR applied base weights and post-stratification weights (using iterative rim weighting also known as raking methods) to results from each country. Final weighted data files were delivered to ORB for delivery to the project sponsor.
Sample
Area probability samples of general population of Kenya Nigeria and South Africa.
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Cara Carter
Sponsor
ORB International
Project ID
15.17
Year
2015
Municipal Responses to Immigrants Survey
This multi-mode survey of municipal officials sought to capture the range of local government responses to immigration in their locality. Officials were first contacted by mail with the option to complete a paper questionnaire. Non-respondents were then contacted via email and given the option to complete the survey online. Over the course of production follow-up contacts were made to non-respondents by mail email and phone. With support from the Pew Charitable Trusts CSR fielded this study on behalf of Prof. Abigail Williamson Trinity College.
Sample
4000 city officials and police chiefs from 1000 US cities towns and CDP's stratified by size and region
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Abigail Fisher Williamson
Sponsor
Trinity College
Project ID
15.15
Year
2015
Nonprofit Finance Fund Consult
The Nonprofit Finance Fund engaged CSR to help assess the extent to which its recurring survey of nonprofit organizations (State of the Non-Profit Sector Survey) was representative of the larger nonprofit sector. CSR compared the NFF’s findings to data on nonprofit organizations collected by the Internal Revenue Service and the National Center for Charitable Statistics and explored alternative weighting formulas. CSR presented NFF with a technical report and a powerpoint presentation documenting the results of this analysis.
Sample
NFF's survey used nonprobability recruitment methods
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Sarah Goff
Sponsor
Nonprofit Finance Fund
Project ID
15.13
Year
2015
Guatemala Survey Weighting Consult
CSR advised Dr. Max Luna of the UVa Department of Cardiovascular Medicine on proper weighting and analysis of data from the NCDS (Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance study). This cross-sectinonal study of cardiovascular risk factors was conduceted by Dr. Luna's team in Santiago Atitlan Guatemala a rural Mayan town using a stratified clustered design.
Sample
350 randomly selected adults in Santiago Atitlan Guatemala a rural Mayan poulation with a high degree of poverty
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Max Luna MD
Sponsor
Uva Cardiovascular Medicine
Project ID
15.12
Year
2015
CTE Completer Follow-Up Survey 2015-16
CSR provided technical and user support to all school divisions in Virginia as they sought to include all CTE completer students from the prior school year. CSR also provided websites for data collection and reporting (contracted through UVa Custom Applications and Consulting Services) communication data analysis and reporting.
Sample
All CTE Completer students in Virginia are asked to fill out a survey about one year after graduation.
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Lolita Hall
Sponsor
Department of Education
Project ID
15.11
Year
2015
Fairfax County NCS Customer Satisfaction
Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services (NCS) wanted to gather information on Customer Satisfaction for five different centers/services. These included Human Services Transportation (HST) Senior Centers (SC) Community Centers Teen Centers and Technology Centers. CSR reviewed and edited questionnaires ran mail and web surveys for HST and SC entered data gathered by NSC for the other centers and provided data tables for 799 total respondents and a methods report.
Sample
Samples of 500 Senior Center and 500 Human Services Transportation customers. NCS conducted 501 on-site face-to-face interviews at three other types of centers.
Client Name
Cindy Clark
Sponsor
Fairfax County
Project ID
15.1
Year
2015
Fairfax DFS 2015
The Fairfax County Department of Family Services is a client satisfaction survey. The survey is a self-administered paper survey that is mailed to clients' home addresses. The survey was mailed to a random sample of 3500 clients. The sample was proportionally stratified by service type. The survey also included a telephone follow-up to approximately 25% of the non-respondents. The questionnaire was translated into five languages beyond English (Vietnamese Farsi Spanish Korean and Arabic.)
Sample
Proportional stratified sample of clients of Fairfax DFS
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
John Ruthinoski
Project ID
15.08
Year
2015
Uva Sexual Assault Place and Time Survey
CSR worked with a group of MS students in UVAs Data Science program who planned to survey UVa students about recent sexual assaults. They planned to create maps showing the time and location of assaults to identify 'hot spots' for this type of crime. CSR advised on the draft survey instrument. Due to security and privacy concerns no survey was conducted. Instead students obtained de-identified crime reports from the Charlottesville Police and analyzed seasonal time and location trends and created heat maps of the crime occurrences at different times of year.
Sample
Survey was not conducted as originally planned due to security and privacy concerns. Project shifted to an analysis of police records of sexual assaults in the City of Charlottesville
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Prof. Don Brown UVa Systems & Information Engineering
Sponsor
Uva Data Sciences Institute
Project ID
15.06
Year
2015
DCR Survey Design Consultation for 2016 Virginia Outdoors Survey
CSR consulted with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation to plan and budget for a statewide survey about outdoors recreation. The survey would be part of the 5-year update of the Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP). CSR and DCR took into account prior experience with the 2011 SCORP. CSR produced a budget and memorandum in consultation to DCR.
Sample
Statewide Virginia survey with regional quotas
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Janit Llewelyn
Sponsor
VA Department of Conservation and Recreation
Project ID
15.03
Year
2015
Foothills Forum--Rappahannock Survey
On behalf of local non-profit citizens organization Foothills Forum CSR conducted a mail survey of residents of Rappahanock County VA. Survey packets were mailed to every household in the county and 1 362 were completed. The survey focused on needed services and on development issues and received extensive coverage in the local press.
Sample
Survey packets were mailed to every household in this small locality
Principal Investigators
Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Bud Meyer
Sponsor
Foothills Forum
Project ID
15.01
Year
2015
Botetourt County Agriculture
CSR assisted the Center for Economic and Policy Studies (also a unit of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service) to conduct three focus groups regarding the status of agriculture in Botetourt County and agricultural development needs and opportunities. Three focus groups were held in February 2015. CSR delivered a technical report to CEPS and CEPS delivered a final written report to the county.
Sample
Non-probability sample of 41 local people working or interested in agribusiness in Botetourt County. Participants were identified and recruited by Botetourt County staff and local cooperative extension staff.
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Terry Rephann
Sponsor
CEPS -- Weldon Cooper Center
Project ID
14.25
Year
2014
Loudoun County Resident Survey 2014
The 2014 Loudoun County Survey of Residents was conducted by telephone with a scientifically selected sample of 1 017 county residents. Listed random-digit dial landline and cell numbers were included in the triple-frame sample design. Rural ZIP codes were oversampled. The questionnaire covered opinions about county services employment cell and broadband connectivity Metrorail destinations and priorities for station features and more.
Sample
Triple-frame sample covering listed random-digit dial landline and cell numbers. Rural ZIP codes were oversampled.
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Beth Hilkemeyer
Sponsor
Loudoun County Department of Management and Financial Services
Project ID
14.19
Year
2014
Cville Employee Survey 2014
Web and mail survey designed to assess employees’ satisfaction with their work environment and give employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas and opinions to help make the City of Charlottesville a better place to work. CSR had previously conducted a similar survey for the City in 2006 2010 and 2012.
Sample
All full and part-time employees of the City of Charlotte
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Galloway Beck
Sponsor
City of Charlottesville
Project ID
14.18
Year
2014
Virginia PRAMS 2014
This survey is a population-based surveillance system that collects state-specific data on maternal behaviors and experiences that occur before during and after pregnancy. The data are used for policy and program. The core questions are common to all states and the state specific questions are standard topic modules that VDH has selected for use in the survey. CSR was contracted to provide telephone reminders for non-respondents after several mailings through VDH and conduct telephone interviews with willing respondents.
Sample
Women who have had a recent live birth in the State of Virginia who have been contacted to participate in a mail-out survey and have not yet responded.
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Project ID
14.15
Year
2014
Citizen Cabinet Recruitment
The goal of the project was to test different methods of recruiting a general population to an online panel of US citizens to consult on public policy issues. Respondents were asked to sign up for the Citizen Cabinet by mail or by going to the specified website and entering their code. In this process they were asked to complete a short intake questionnaire on paper or online.
Sample
A random sample of 3200 household addresses divided between a Virginia sample and a National sample.
Principal Investigators
James Ellis
Client Name
Steven Kull
Sponsor
PIPA
Project ID
14.14
Year
2014
VHIB Estimate of Horse Population in Virginia
In order to estimate the numnber of horses living in Virginia by age breed and locality CSR acquired electronic and paper records of Coggins tests in Virginia. These records provided a sampling frame for a survey of 5 600 horse owners. There were 2 804 respondents. A subsequent survey of veterinarians informed estimates of Coggins test rates by seven regions of Virginia. The data were weighted up to produce the estimated numbers of horses.
Sample
A sample of 5600 owners drawn from records for horses tested for Equine Infectious Anemia
Principal Investigators
James Ellis & Tom Guterbock
Client Name
Andrea Heid
Sponsor
Virginia Horse Industry Board
Project ID
14.12
Year
2014
