“She’s like having an in-country partner on a project, wherever you go.”
Brian Stryker, Partner, ALG Polling, Washington, DC/Chicago
Qualitative/Quantitative Design, Management & Analysis
Quirk Global Strategies will manage your qualitative or quantitative project from start to finish. Our experience designing and managing a all types of projects in the U.S. and internationally will ensure you are asking the right questions of the right people using the best data collection mode.
Services include:
- Defining and fine-tuning research goals
- Designing and writing research instruments such as surveys and discussion guides
- Selecting appropriate local data collectors
- Sample design and mode selection
- Moderator and interviewer training
- Fielding and on-the-ground oversight (viewing focus groups, supervising field tests)
- Full analysis and reporting, with strategic recommendations
We have relationships with reliable data collectors around the world and can identify the vendor best suited to carrying out your research. We work closely with the vendor to make sure your project meets the highest methodological standards, from translations to interviewer training to pre-tests.
We can help you decide which data collection methodology is best suited for your budget, subject matter and the country. We also offer advice on sampling difficult to reach or dangerous regions.
Quality Control & Troubleshooting
Having worked in as many countries as we have, few research challenges arise that we haven’t overcome already. We can help you avoid pitfalls in project design and implementation that slow your deliverables and increase research costs.
For focus groups, we train your local moderator and/or brief her or him on the goals of your project to ensure your groups collect the maximum amount of data. If problems come up in your first group, we make sure they are corrected by the second. We can also train complete novices to become competent facilitators in a weekend.
From sampling to data collection to processing in quantitative projects, we know where to expect obstacles and can make a plan to mitigate them in advance. Interview fraud is rare, but it happens. QGS is skilled at identifying and correcting such issues, from the clumsy and innocent to the brazen.
