Services
Whatever your survey challenge, we can help.
Running surveys in-house? Working with a supplier? Need someone to run your whole project from A to Z? You’re in the right place.
Bad data looks the same as good data — and when your findings go public, you need to know yours will hold up. SSI brings unmatched survey science expertise to every project, ensuring your data survives donor scrutiny, board questions, and the light of day.
We specialize in high-impact micro-consulting — in just a few hours, we can review your survey design, questionnaire, and data analytics — and highlight glitches before it’s too late.
SURVEY
DESIGN
QUESTIONNAIRE
DESIGN
DATA COLLECTION &
RESPONSE RATES
DATA ANALYSIS &
AND REPORTING
- Specify exact information needed
- Determine type of survey (random sample? census? purposive?)
- Specify target respondent characteristics
- Set target sample size
- Ensure privacy legislation compliance
- Maximize response rate
- RFP / RFQ content
- Cost savings opportunities
- Prepare from scratch, or provide feedback on your existing draft questionnaire
- Ensure questionnaire is designed to enable planned data analytics techniques
- Advise on most appropriate response scales
- Minimize survey length
- Write diversity, equity, inclusion questions
- Program questionnaire online and test
- Pre-test survey and tweak, as needed
- Foster respondent participation
- Measure respondent representativeness and tweak respondent recruitment, as needed
- Close data collection
- Download survey data
- Clean and weight data
- Conduct topline, crosstabulation, and statistical analyses
- Write plain language Reports with data visualization, compelling storytelling, and evidence-based recommendations
- Provide in-person briefings of findings and recommendations
Bring us your hardest survey challenges:
- Complex sampling
- Response scales selection
- Hard-to-measure concepts and attitudes
- Hard-to-reach target populations
- DEI metrics
- Applied data analytics and statistics
- Compelling storytelling
- Translation of complex information into easy-to-understand reports
- Actionable recommendations
- Forensic analysis of completed report / published article
Bring us your hardest survey challenges
Complex sampling
Response scales selection
Hard-to-measure concepts and attitudes
Hard-to-reach target populations
DEI metrics
Applied data analytics and statistics
Compelling storytelling
Translation of complex information into plain language reports
Actionable recommendations
Forensic analysis of completed report / published article
