Capabilities

Performance Management | Program Evaluation
Simulation Modeling | Statistical Modeling | Survey Analysis Customer Profiling | Relocation & Economic Development

Survey Analysis

EconSys professional staff members have a broad knowledge of and experience with advanced survey methodologies, including instrument design, sampling, data collection, analysis of large databases, and the preparation of high quality research and policy reports.

Our extensive survey management experience allows us to carry out large and complex survey and program evaluation data collection efforts in efficient and cost-effective ways.

EconSys has developed a survey management protocol that incorporates adopting appropriate survey methodologies and extensive quality control and assurance procedures. Our staff stays abreast of current innovations in the survey research literature, allowing us to adopt the most relevant approaches to the specific requirements of each survey project.

Our survey research experience includes telephone, in-person, and mail surveys, mixed mode surveys, and more recently the design and administration of web-based surveys.

For the past five to ten years, increased utilization of Internet has reformed the survey conducting process with easy to use web-based surveys. It is not unlikely that eventually web-based surveys may replace the traditional way of collecting data.

The reasons why we prefer web-based surveys include: faster response rate, ease of processing the data collected, ease of reminding participants to respond, ease for the participant to follow skip patterns, ability to include pop-up screens to help the participants in explaining questions, and use of drop-down boxes. Another advantage of web-based survey is the cost. Typically it is less expensive on average to conduct a web-based survey than a paper survey.

Over the past several years, EconSys has performed a considerable amount of survey work for program evaluation and customer satisfaction studies. Customer satisfaction surveys, customer listening, and customer profiling are core strengths at EconSys. Corporate capabilities in our current customer listening practice, much of them state-of-the art, include:

•      Nuts and bolts of customer satisfaction survey – survey instrument         development, sampling, administering, statistical analysis, reporting
•      Latest statistical tools such as causal path modeling
•      Customer-based brand equity calculator
•      Comparison against competitors
•      Linking customer attitudes to behavior
•      ValueKeys – analyzing what customers say versus what they really         think
•      Comprehensive framework for customer intelligence gathering

Along with measuring customer satisfaction, we determine the factors that are the key drivers of customer satisfaction. We also identify areas of improvement which will have the greatest impact on satisfaction.

Our quadrant analysis shows the relationship between performance, as perceived by the customer, and importance, which is measured as correlation with overall satisfaction. This analysis takes the correlation and performance rankings, ranks the results, and then plots the rankings on a graph divided into four equal quadrants.