Partnering with a global roster of carefully vetted, highly qualified local vendors, we produce rigorous, probability-based surveys across the world. From a single country project to complex cross-national assignments, our international surveys are custom made to the highest standard.
We offer:
- Trusted local partners in 45+ countries
- Quantitative and qualitative studies
- A professional team with extensive methodological and analytical expertise
- Full transparency: Clients are welcome to engage at any and all stages
- Deep experience. Our international research dates back to joint U.S./Japan surveys with Japanese broadcaster NHK in the early 1990s.
Our services:
- Develop and consult on survey instruments. Summarize relevant literature, draft and review questionnaires, conduct pretests and cognitive interviews.
- Oversee translation with extensive verification processes.
- Develop survey designs, from establishing population parameters to sampling and weighting regimens.
- Oversee all aspects of data collection from interviewer training to multi-layer quality assurance and control procedures. Process, clean, weight the data for delivery in preferred formats.
- Analyze data, including statistical modeling as warranted, and produce clear, actionable reports that directly answer our clients’ questions.
- Write publishable editorial products and employ an accomplished graphic designer.
Expertise:
- Survey management for the Pew Research Center. We’ve been selected to manage more than 60 individual international surveys on a range of topics for the center since 2018, including face-to-face and random-digit-dialed telephone surveys in North and South America, Europe, East Asia and Southeast Asia.
- A seven-year series of surveys in Iraq and Afghanistan, recognized in two News Emmy Awards and described in the 2010 Policy Impact Award of the American Association for Public Opinion Research as “a stellar example of high-impact public opinion polling at its finest.” Results were cited by a wide range of high-level policymakers, including in a presidential address, congressional testimony and parliamentary debate, as well as in many news, think-tank, academic and military publications.
- Monitoring and evaluation studies for U.S. Agencey for International Development and NGO partners in Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
- Vetting and inclusion of surveys from more than 40 countries in the open-access SEAN COVID-19 survey archive, created with support from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
- We’ve presented on our international research results and methodology at venues including the ESOMAR World Congress, the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and annual conferences of the World Association for Public Opinion Research and the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
For details, contact our international projects director, Yulia Baskakova, Ph.D.