Outsourced Research
Don't have an internal survey research department?
Want to reduce your organizations internal research staffing costs?
Want to reduce your organizations internal research staffing costs?
Contract with enetrix to serve as your organizations research arm, all without your clients or members even knowing we are a separate entity.
The enetrix Outsourced Research Services can handle all aspects of your survey research process including the technical, statistical, operational, ethical, and financial imperatives that you must consider to ensure that your online survey project is successful.
As your survey Partner, we will help you:
Learn how to articulate your research goals.
- What are the aims of your research?
- Who are the target population?
- Who are the stakeholders, e.g., sponsors, users, financial controllers, respondents, etc.?
Manage your costs.
- How many internal or external resources will your survey require?
- How do you procure them?
- How do you estimate their cost?
- Should you outsource all or parts of the survey operation?
Ensure confidentiality.
- What confidentiality issues need to be addressed?
- What ethical issues might arise?
- What legal concerns ought be considered?
Understand your sociometric task.
- What size sample is reasonable for reliable results?
- What activities need to be completed at different stages of the survey process?
- How are these activities interdependent—and how does that shape your timetable for executing them?
- What are the crucial design and operational issues, e.g., data collection mode and how to ensure an acceptable rate of response?
Analyze your data.
- Are your results reliable—would you expect to get similar results with the same instrument with a similar sample?
- Are your results valid—does your survey measure what it purports to measure?
- Are your results significant—are measured differences statistically significant?
Interpret your results.
- Understand what your quantitative data are telling you so that you can make the most informed decisions based upon your survey results.<.li>