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Announcing: The Jefferson Area Community Survey (JACS)
Oct 03, 2011

This January, the Center for Survey Research will launch the first edition of its new, recurrent, omnibus survey of the Charlottesville-Albemarle region, the Jefferson Area Community Survey.   For a one-page summary of the project and contact information, please click here.

CSR Releases results of National Capital Region telephone survey of emergency behavior during a terrorist attack
Sep 09, 2011

In August 2011 the University of Virginia Center for Survey Research released the results of its recent telephone survey in the National Capital Region.

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VDEM Full Report Final.pdf
NSF Workshop, convened by CSR's Tom Guterbock, fuels discussion in Science
Aug 16, 2011

A recent article in Science (22 July 2011) highlights the controversy about the National Science Board's attempt to separate knowledge from belief in how people respond to an NSF-funded biennial science literacy survey.  The NSB acted with advice from two scientific workshops. 

New research on including cell phones in telephone surveys
May 16, 2011

CSR presented results of its recent methodological research at the annual AAPOR meetings in May 2011.  CSR is showing that survey costs can be lowered, without introducing serious error, if part of the telephone sample is drawn from telephone directories rather than being randomly dialed.

Ethical Dilemmas in Surgery
Nov 10, 2011

 

Please click the links below for more information about helping with the project and for the draft questionnaire.

 

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ACS pilot info.pdf
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