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:
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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.
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Providing advice and support to researchers and administration at UW.
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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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