Polling and Analysis

The Survey Research Program in the Baruch College School of Public Affairs designs and conducts surveys for government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other partners on a wide range of public affairs topics. Combining a state-of-the-art telephone canvassing center with the expertise of Baruch School of Public Affairs faculty and graduate students, the Survey Research team specializes in careful objective survey research on policy-relevant issues at both the local and national levels.

Research Capabilities:

Baruch Survey Research offers a full range of services, including:

Research and sampling design
Questionnaire writing
Computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) at our own state-of-the-art CATI lab
Web-based and e-mail surveys
Focus groups
Foreign language interviewing and questionnaire translation
Weighting and statistical analysis
Report writing and publication

The Survey Research team adheres to the Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO) Code of Standards and Ethics for Survey Research. All research staff and interviewers have completed a certification for Research with Experimental Subjects, which fulfills the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulatory requirement for human research subjects protection.