Posted on 30 June 2020 by Guy Goodwin, Chief Executive Someone’s knocking at the door Most of the UK’s high-quality random probability social surveys use face-to-face interviewing. The Covid-19 lockdown meant an immediate pause to this work. When can, and should, interviewers return into the field to conduct social surveys and under what conditions? In this blog post, our Chief Executive Guy Goodwin addresses some of the key questions for both survey commissioners and research organisations. Read the rest of this entry Tags: Covid-19, Covid-19 Infection Study, NatCen Opinion Panel, coronavirus, fieldwork, telephone surveys, web surveys
Posted on 17 June 2020 by Guy Goodwin, Chief Executive Testing boundaries during the pandemic Certainly, there is no question about the importance and relevance of some of our NatCen research right now, whether we’re finding out how older people are coping during the pandemic, helping with the volumes on the Covid-19 infection study or taking part in the partnership evaluating the contact tracing app pilot on the Isle of Wight. Read the rest of this entry Tags: CATI, Computer-assisted telephone interviews, Covid-19, Covid-19 Infection Study, ELSA, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, coronavirus, innovation