PRIVACY POLICY
PRIVACY POLICY

SURVEYS HUB

Description

The Surveys Hub is EKKE's comprehensive digital research infrastructure, enabling both EKKE researchers and third parties to conduct telephone, online, and face-to-face quantitative surveys, as well as surveys that use mixed data collection methods via electronic questionnaires. These surveys can be nationwide or local in scope. Specifically, the Surveys Hub provides:

  • Appropriate sampling frames for conducting random sampling
  • Specialized software for CAI (Computer Assisted Interviewing), such as CAPI (Personal), CATI (Telephone), and CAWI (Web)
  • Equipment, including servers, desktop computers, laptops, and tablets
  • Maps of the country's building blocks provided by the Hellenic Statistical Authority
  • A VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone center, a telephony system that uses the internet for transmitting voice calls instead of traditional telephone lines
  • 15 workstations for telephone surveys
  • More than 50 workstations for face-to-face surveys
  • An online panel for conducting web surveys
  • Experienced personnel, including data managers, field supervisors, interviewers, statisticians, and IT specialists

Services

The Surveys Hub provides the following services:

  • Conducting surveys using advanced data collection systems via digital and/or paper questionnaires with mixed or single data collection methods
  • Implementing random and non-random sampling methods
  • Creating digital questionnaires with complex routing rules and personalized questions
  • Providing tools for continuous supervision of supervisors' and interviewers' work through various reports
  • Providing tools for calculating survey response rates based on international standards and tracking their progress
  • Creating necessary weighting variables
  • Analyzing data using statistical packages
  • Writing reports
  • Creating code for replicating statistical analysis and data management (replicas)
  • Depositing data into EKKE’s Repository on SoDaNet and assigning a permanent identifier to the survey
  • Ensuring the long-term preservation of survey data through EKKE’s Data Repository

More information on the Surveys Hub can be found here.