Category Archives: Data Capture Services

Good, Fast, Cheap – Pick Two

Good, Fast, Cheap - Pick Two

“Good, Fast, Cheap – Pick Two,” I got into a heated discussion with a colleague about this quote. You can Google it and it will return 100’s of pages and images. It appears that there are even businesses that post signs, telling their customers they can only have two. In my humble opinion, any organization […]

How to Promote an Employee Survey

How to promote an employee survey

Promoting employee surveys is an essential part of data collection for employee surveys because, without a sufficient number of responses, survey results can be deemed flawed. You may have to start the entire survey process again. To avoid this, check out our tips below on how to increase response rates to your employee survey. Prioritize […]

The Most Important Skillsets for In-House Survey Projects

The Most Important Skillsets for In-House Survey Projects

If you are planning to effectively and efficiently handle a large-scale survey project in-house, knowing the questions you want to ask your target respondents is only the beginning. You also need to have access to a wide range of specialized skillsets. This is because practical considerations are certain to arise throughout the project that will […]

What SOC 2 Compliance Means for Your Data

What SOC 2 Compliance Means for Your Data In today’s business world, data security is critical. According to a report by Accenture in 2019, US companies lost $24.7 Million in 2018 from cybercrime. Accordingly, if you’re an enterprise with more stringent data security standards, you have to look for a SOC 2 compliant vendor. SOC […]

Difference Between a Balanced and Unbalanced Rating Scales

Difference Between a Balanced and Unbalanced Rating Scales

Rating Scales are valuable measurement instruments in research. Researchers need to understand the properties of these scales, and their influences on the responses gathered from their use. Generally, balanced scales are being used in research. Findings show that there is a difference in results when a balanced scale is used instead of an unbalanced scale. […]

Your Paper-based Data Collection Options Just Got Better

If your mission is to discover answers to objectives, improve performance, or find new ideas and create improvements, then you may need to conduct research and produce statistical analysis to support your mission. In order to do so, you may be faced with the challenge of data capturing from paper surveys and if you don’t […]

Creating a Data Schema

Creating a Data Schema

At long last, you’ve made it to the data collection stage of your survey project. It’s time to warm up the automated data collection equipment, make sure everything is programmed correctly and prepare for the results to come in. As with each stage of survey administration, there is some prep work needed to ensure accurate […]

Automated Data Collection: Which Approach is Best?

Long gone are the days when mail survey responses were collected manually and key entered into digital format. Today, the question isn’t whether you should automate, but rather which automated data collection approach you should be using. The most commonly used data capture technologies in the survey industry today are OMR (optical mark recognition) and […]

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