| Survey Research Centre | University of Waterloo

Our Mission Statement

We strive to provide quality survey research and training to the university and larger community through courses, consultation, seminars and a full range of data collection services.

About the Survey Research Centre

The Survey Research Centre (SRC) was initiated in 1997
Approved by Senate in 1999 as a research centre.
We support a 14 station computer assisted telephone call centre.
Provide consultation on all aspects of survey research, from questionnaire design to data analysis.
Our priorities are to support the University of Waterloo Faculty and Administration, researchers from other universities, and regional governments in their primary data collection needs.
We strive to provide quality survey research. As a small academic centre, we do not attempt to match commercial firms in speed of collection; we focus on good response rates, attention to detail, and adherence to a high standard of research.
The SRC has conducted many substantial telephone surveys, as well as consulted on dozens of mail, face to face and web surveys on behalf of university researchers and external agencies.
Sample sizes have ranged from 400 to 6,000 cases.
Our work has increased four fold in the past three years.
Web surveys are an increasingly affordable way to conduct surveys.
The SRC provides questionnaire design, programming, hosting and data analysis for web based surveys.

The objectives of the Survey Research Centre:

Contributing to research in survey methodology, and encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Helping to communicate research findings and activity, and making survey method resources and expertise visible and easily accessible, at UW and externally.
Contributing to education and training.
Providing advice and support to researchers and administration at UW.
Providing survey research services to academic researchers and external clients.
SRC is a co-operative venture between the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and the Department of Sociology at the University of Waterloo.
We are located on the sixth floor of the Math and Computer Building.

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