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The Center for Survey Research (CSR) is a research center administratively housed under the Research Office at Indiana University, a service core of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and a founding member of the Association of Academic Survey Research Organizations (AASRO). For more than 40 years, CSR has partnered with world-class researchers to conduct thousands of research projects that advance knowledge and humankind using surveys, interviews, focus groups, and a wide range of other methods. CSR’s expert services include research design, sampling and subject recruitment, data collection instrument design and testing (including cognitive interviewing), web interface development, database and data collection instrument programming, data collection, forms scanning and data entry, coding, and weighting. Senior methodologists possess advanced training in research methods and bring 20-30+ years of experience in designing and implementing high-quality qualitative and quantitative research studies. CSR’s IT expertise includes data collection instrument design, programming, interface development, and data management using REDCap, Qualtrics, HTML, Javascript, and SQL, as well as mass email campaign software that is used to field samples exceeding one million addresses. CSR implements industry-leading protocols to securely collect, manage, and archive sensitive research data, including Protected Health Information, from hundreds of thousands of participants each year. The field research unit conducts complex in-person interviews, collects medical specimens and environmental samples, obtains physical measurements, and administers standardized cognitive assessments and is led by a team with decades of field research experience leading large federally funded data collection efforts. CSR’s long standing telephone data collection unit employs rigorous training, data collection protocols, and quality control oversight of its diverse interviewing staff. The mail operations and forms scanning unit provides specialized capacity for efficiently employing mail and paper-based methods in research studies. CSR’s capabilities also include expertise to design, conduct, code, and analyze focus groups, in-depth interviews, and structured observations with a broad spectrum of research populations. CSR offers free consulting each week during the academic year at the Social Science Research Commons, Scholars’ Commons, or via Zoom. To make an appointment or to request further information regarding CSR services, please visit https://csr.indiana.edu/contactus/.