Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration: Securing the Future of Social Surveys

调查数据收集界在使用大流行前的方法进行调查方面面临严峻挑战。关于不同数据收集技术和方法的优缺点，如一键上网、敲门轻推和视频访谈，尤其是在混合模式的情况下，存在着知识差距。而且，熟练的采访者和研究专业人员的能力都有限。最近的事态发展导致专员对面对面数据收集的要求发生了变化，并对实地工作费用和面谈人员的作用产生了影响。在调查方法的几个领域，迫切需要开发改进的方法以及识别和交流最佳实践的需要。调查数据收集方法协作(SDCMC)是对这些挑战的回应，旨在实现英国人口调查数据收集方法的一步改变，以确保仍有可能进行公众和学术部门所需的高质量社会调查，以监测和了解社会，并为政策提供证据基础。它将主要通过一项严格的研究计划来做到这一点，该计划的重点是确保英国的大规模社会调查能够在不断变化的环境中创新和适应，并继续提供高质量和包容性的数据。工作方案的主要目的是评估与联合王国未来调查有关的最重要调查设计选择的质量影响，并提供良好做法指导和实用培训材料，而次要目标是确定有希望的方法，以提高采访者和研究专业人员的能力和技能，并采取步骤进行改进。SDCMC将产生一系列研究和培训产出，并将参与一项传播和推广活动方案。产出将具有很强的实用性，包括调查设计、调查执行、调查专员和调查数据用户的良好做法指南，所有这些都有严格和有充分记录的研究作后盾，并有一系列相关活动，以确保将经验教训传播给所有相关利益攸关方，并在适当情况下及时纳入机构实践。该项目还将寻求实现整个社区的对话和协作，以应对更广泛的战略挑战和问题，并纳入强有力的培训和能力建设部分。要实现委员会的愿景，需要广泛的利益相关者的领导、承诺和积极参与，包括委托调查的人、实施调查的人、使用调查数据的人，以及参与调查方法研究和发展的人。建设性对话和合作对于成功开展我们设想的一系列雄心勃勃的活动和产出至关重要。我们组建了一支经验丰富的项目团队，其中包括学者和调查从业者(来自14个机构的39人)，他们致力于必要的建设性合作，我们将在赠款过程中与更广泛的其他利益攸关方接触，以确保我们的成果直接惠及广泛的受众。将不仅对调查研究和调查实践产生影响，而且还将对社会科学内外的广泛学科产生影响，这些学科通过提高对问题和机会的认识和知识，利用社会调查数据进行分析。

The survey data collection community is facing severe challenges in implementing surveys using pre-pandemic approaches. There are knowledge gaps regarding the advantages and disadvantages of different data collection techniques and approaches such as push-to-web, knock-to-nudge and video-interviewing, and particularly in the mixed-mode context. And there is limited capacity both of skilled interviewers and of research professionals. Recent developments are leading to changes in commissioner requirements for face-to-face data collection as well as having implications for fieldwork costs and the role of interviewers. In several areas of survey methodology, the need for development of improved methods and the need to identify and communicate best practice is urgent.The Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration (SDCMC) is a response to these challenges and aims to deliver a step change in approaches to collecting population survey data in the UK to ensure that it will remain possible to carry out high quality social surveys of the kinds required by the public and academic sectors to monitor and understand society, and to provide an evidence base for policy. It will do this primarily through a rigorous programme of research focused on ensuring large-scale social surveys in the UK can innovate and adapt in a changing environment and continue to deliver high quality and inclusive data. The primary aim of the programme of work is to assess the quality implications of the most important survey design choices relevant to future UK surveys and provide good practice guidance and practical training materials, while a secondary aim is to identify promising ways to improve the capacity and skillset of both interviewers and research professionals and take steps towards making those improvements. The SDCMC will generate a range of research and training outputs and will engage in a programme of dissemination and promotion activities. Outputs will have a strong practical orientation, consisting of good practice guidance for survey design, survey implementation, survey commissioners and survey data users, all backed up by rigorous and well-documented research and with a range of associated activities to ensure that the lessons are disseminated to all relevant stakeholders and, where appropriate, embedded in institutional practice in a timely manner. The project will also seek to enable a whole community dialogue and collaborative response to wider strategic challenges and issues, as well as incorporating a strong training and capacity building component. To realise the vision of the SDCMC will require leadership, commitment and active participation of a broad range of stakeholders including those who commission surveys, those who implement them, those who use survey data and those involved in research and development of survey methods. Constructive dialogue and collaboration will be crucial to the successful delivery of the ambitious range of activities and outputs that we envisage. We have assembled an experienced project team including academics and survey practitioners (39 people from 14 institutions), who are committed to the necessary constructive collaboration and we will engage a wider range of other stakeholders during the course of the grant to ensure that our outputs directly benefit a wide range of audiences. Impact will be achieved not only on survey research and survey practice but also on a broad range of disciplines within the social sciences and beyond which employ social survey data for analysis through raised awareness and knowledge of issues and opportunities.