The University of Chicago’s Survey Lab provides high-quality data collection and consulting services to
researchers from all five ITM institutions. The Survey Lab’s experts focus on the important details that define
quality data collection. Their goal is to help you ask better questions – from refining big research questions to
making informed decisions about specific aspects of design and implementation.
The University of Chicago Survey Lab is a full-service survey research center housed within the Biological
Sciences Division at the University of Chicago. Services range from initial consultations to full project oversight
and management, including grant and IRB support, methodological development, developing project materials
(e.g., recruitment and IRB materials, interviewer training materials, leave-behind materials for respondents);
questionnaire development and testing; recruitment strategies and methodology; data collection (in-person or
phone interviews, focus groups, web, multimodal); data cleaning; methods reports; and basic descriptive
results.