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