The Wolfgang Frese Survey Research Laboratory
The Survey Research Laboratory (SRL) conducts telephone, online, mail, and multi-mode surveys. Since 1982, the laboratory has collected data for over 350 surveys using local, state, national, and international samples. These surveys have covered a broad range of research topics including healthcare, vocational rehabilitation, children’s well-being, alcohol and tobacco use, land management, and political climate. In cooperation with the Political Science Department at Mississippi State University, the SRL also conducts The Mississippi Poll, which is considered the only scientifically-based public issues survey in the state of Mississippi.
Call Center
For telephone-based surveys, the SRL utilizes a state-of-the-art call center with 18 call stations, each equipped with the latest computer hardware and survey software. The call center employs the PASW Data Collection Platform by SPSS, a leading developer of statistical analysis and survey research software.
Staff
The SRL is staffed by two research scientists, several research assistants, and over 40 telephone interviewers. All the telephone interviewers are trained in survey interviewing and certified by Mississippi State University’s Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research (IRB).
Capability
At maximum capacity, the SRL can collect data for over 5,000 completed telephone based surveys per month. Quality control of the data collected by the survey interviewers is maintained through targeted video and audio monitoring of each call station. For web based surveys, the laboratory’s dedicated HP Blade™ server can easily process over 10,000 completed surveys per day.
For more information
please contact:
John F. Edwards, Ph.D.
Coordinator of SSRC Laboratories
Mississippi State University
Social Science Research Center
One Research Blvd., Suite 103
Starkville, MS 39759
Email: je@ssrc.msstate.edu
Telephone: (662) 325-9726
SSRC 2011 Annual Report
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