Accomplishments

The Center's efforts to improve survey research methods have resulted in significant landmark accomplishments. As of 1970, the SESRC was the first university-based telephone survey laboratory in the western United States. In 1978, Don A. Dillman, Deputy Director for Research and Development of the SESRC, published the first book (Mail and Telephone Surveys: The Total Design Method) describing the step-by-step procedures for conducting the highest quality mail and telephone surveys. The Center also developed one of the first Microcomputer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (MATI) systems in the United States in 1984. Since 1989, the SESRC has continually worked toward improving response rates, cognitive questions design, and mixed mode surveys.

Please contact me or any of our survey professionals if you would like information or a quote for survey work of any kind. Please feel free to contact us by email (sesrc@wsu.edu), telephone, or fax.

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John Tarnai