Skypolls has extensive, in-house capabilities in all interviewing modes for data collection. Government, foundation, and academic clients turn to us for large-scale, rigorous, complex, and often sensitive data collection because our in-house capabilities ensure high quality, rapid turnaround, and close accountability.

Skypolls Data Collection Experience

• State-of-the-art technology to facilitate and manage data collection in all interviewing modes, including integrated multi-mode interviewing software and multi-question automated SMS blasting and voice broadcasting

• Extensive interviewer training protocols, tailoring training and management to the specific requirements of each individual study

• Specialization in the conduct of sensitive surveys of vulnerable populations in such areas as family violence, military combat veterans, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

• Specific experience in conducting biologic and environmental samples

• Use of digital measurement devices in both household travel and health-related surveys to go beyond survey self-reports, with an entire department specializing in GIS and digital device utilization

• Nationally recognized expertise in all sampling modes, including RDD/cell frames, address-based sampling, special rare-population sample frames, and in-person household sample frames and mobile communication surveys

Skypolls Data Collection Capabilities

• Large, centralized and fully-supervised telephone interviewing facilities with a capacity of 450 fully monitored mobile telephone positions

• An elite corps of executive interviewers specializing in interviewing difficult-to-reach business, scientific, media, and other elite decision makers

• In-person household interviewing fully directed and supervised utilizing computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (ACASI), and other advanced interviewing software

• Multi-language interviewing capabilities, including multiple dialects of Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Arabic, and other languages

• Tracking/location for epidemiological, evaluation, and follow-up capabilities

• Interactive voice response (IVR)

• In-house web survey hosting with multi-language capability

• Complete mail survey processing with optical scanning on site

• Full-time coding, sampling, and data processing departments on site