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  Survey Research Centre


 
About the SRC
 
The UNBC Survey Research Centre (SRC) offers a number of research services including telephone and web surveys and transcription services that may be of great assistance to your research work. We operate on a cost-recovery basis and employ highly qualified and trained undergraduate and graduate student researchers to help you collect and transcribe high quality research data efficiently. We can assist you with your entire research project, from survey design to reporting of your study results. The SRC provides services to both clients at UNBC and external to the university.
A view inside UNBC's Survey Research Centre (SRC)
 
 
Services Offered
  • Data collection:
    • Computer-assisted telephone surveys
    • Web surveys: web or e-mail (data is stored on a Canadian server)
    • Mail surveys
    • Mixed-mode surveys (combination of methods)
  • Survey administration (research protocols, pre-testing, sample management, etc.)
  • Transcription services
  • Ethics application
  • Coding
  • Data cleaning
  • Consultation (instrument design, programming, sampling, cost estimates, monitoring)
  • Qualitative & quantitative data analysis
  • Reporting packages
The Survey Research Centre maintains ten computing and interviewing stations at UNBC which allows for high efficiency and faster research results as multiple surveys can be conducted at the same time. Creative Research Solutions surveying software allows for complex survey questioning and sampling designs as well as automatic question branching to minimize missing data.

Web survey software by
FluidSurveys, the leader in serving Canadian institutions with online surveys, allows us to store your data on a Canadian server, an essential feature to keep your data confidential and out of reach of the US Patriot Act.
 
Student Employment Opportunities
 
From time to time, the Survey Research Centre has job openings for graduate and undergraduate students. These opportunities will be posted here as they arise.
 

Contact Us 
 
Please get in touch with us via our Contacts page to discuss your research plans or to obtain an estimate for your study.
 
Janice Paterson is the SRC Manager and would be delighted to discuss your specific survey research needs.
 
 




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