A UK web-based probability panel? Exploring the issues, opportunities and design considerations.

英国基于网络的概率面板？

• 批准号: ES/M010031/1
• 负责人: Lisa Calderwood
• 金额: $ 3.84万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2014 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FM010031%2F1
• 关键词: UK; web; based; probability; panel

This project will look at whether the Economic and Social Research Council, which is a major funder of economic and social science research in the UK, should fund a major new research panel in the UK. The idea is recruit a large number of people (the 'panel'), representative of the UK population, and ask them to fill in questionnaires regularly over the internet. The questionnaires would cover lots of different topics, and researchers who wanted to know about a particular topic could ask for their questions to be included. This would mean that lots of researchers who don't have the time or money to set-up their own study would be able to get answers to the questions they are interested in quickly, and because the panel is already set-up and uses the internet, this would be relatively cheap too. The purpose of this project is to look at whether it is a good idea to set-up such a panel, how best to do this and how much it would cost. We will speak to researchers in universities, government and the voluntary sector about whether they would use it, what they might use it for and what it would need to be like in order to meet their needs. We would also look at how similar panels in other countries are run and who uses them, and look at information about what kinds of studies the ESRC funds at the moment, to work out whether any of them could use the new internet panel instead. We will also look into how best to design such a panel, including how to identify the people to take part and how to encourage them to answer the surveys. Again, to do this we would speak to researchers who might use it, and look at how similar panels are designed and run. The idea is that a panel like this could mean that UK social scientists are able to do as much (or more) high-quality research, but for less money. This would mean that UK taxpayers' money is used more efficiently and effectively.

这个项目将研究经济和社会研究理事会，这是在英国的经济和社会科学研究的主要资助者，是否应该资助一个主要的新的研究小组在英国。这个想法是招募大量的人（“小组”），代表英国人口，并要求他们定期通过互联网填写问卷。问卷将涵盖许多不同的主题，想要了解特定主题的研究人员可以要求将他们的问题包括在内。这将意味着许多没有时间或金钱建立自己研究的研究人员将能够快速获得他们感兴趣的问题的答案，并且因为小组已经建立并使用互联网，这也相对便宜。本项目的目的是研究设立这样一个小组是否是一个好主意，如何最好地做到这一点，以及需要多少费用。我们将与大学、政府和志愿部门的研究人员讨论他们是否会使用它，他们可能会使用它来做什么，以及它需要什么样的才能满足他们的需求。我们还将研究其他国家的类似小组是如何运行的，以及谁在使用它们，并研究ESRC目前资助的研究类型，以确定他们中的任何一个是否可以使用新的互联网小组。我们亦会研究如何以最佳方式设计这个小组，包括如何确定参与调查的人士，以及如何鼓励他们回答调查。同样，为了做到这一点，我们会与可能使用它的研究人员交谈，并看看类似的面板是如何设计和运行的。这样的想法是，这样一个小组可能意味着英国社会科学家能够做同样多（或更多）的高质量研究，但更少的钱。这将意味着英国纳税人的钱得到更有效的使用。