Description
The Surveys Hub is EKKE's comprehensive digital research infrastructure, enabling both EKKE researchers and third parties to conduct telephone, online, and face-to-face quantitative surveys, as well as surveys that use mixed data collection methods via electronic questionnaires. These surveys can be nationwide or local in scope. Specifically, the Surveys Hub provides:
- Appropriate sampling frames for conducting random sampling
- Specialized software for CAI (Computer Assisted Interviewing), such as CAPI (Personal), CATI (Telephone), and CAWI (Web)
- Equipment, including servers, desktop computers, laptops, and tablets
- Maps of the country's building blocks provided by the Hellenic Statistical Authority
- A VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone center, a telephony system that uses the internet for transmitting voice calls instead of traditional telephone lines
- 15 interview stations for telephone surveys
- More than 50 workstations for face-to-face surveys
- An online panel for conducting web surveys
- Experienced personnel, including data managers, field supervisors, interviewers, statisticians, and IT specialists
Services
The Surveys Hub provides the following services:
- Conducting surveys using advanced data collection systems via electronic and/or paper questionnaires with mixed or single data collection methods
- Implementing random and non-random sampling methods
- Creating electronic questionnaires with complex routing rules and personalized questions
- Providing tools for continuous supervision of supervisors' and interviewers' work through various reports
- Providing tools for calculating survey response rates based on international standards and tracking their progress
- Creating necessary weighting variables
- Analyzing data using statistical packages
- Writing reports
- Creating code for replicating statistical analysis and data management (replication analysis and data management)
- Depositing data into EKKE’s Repository on SoDaNet and assigning a permanent identifier to the survey
- Ensuring the long-term preservation of survey data through EKKE’s Data Repository
Surveys
Indicatively, the Surveys Hub has recently conducted the following nationwide surveys:
Recent Surveys
- Gender Discrimination in Multiple Crises, conducted using mixed data collection methods (CAPI / CATI / CAWI)
- Post-Election and Pre-Election Political Behavior Survey, also conducted using mixed data collection methods (CATI/CAWI). The pre-election surveys covered the national elections of May 2023 and the local elections of May 2023, while the pre-election survey covered the European elections of June 2024
Upcoming Surveys
- Survey on the Social Impact of Gambling in Greece Today
- World Internet Project (5th wave)
- Survey of the “National Climate Change and Its Impacts Research Network – Climpact”
Organization of Educational Programs
In EKKE’s educational seminar “Do your Survey” sessions are organized that showcase the use of Surveys Hub tools. In these educational events, the open-access book “Data Collection Methods Using Electronic Questionnaires and Research Methodology” (http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-381), is used as the main text, detailing the tools and methodologies utilized in the infrastructure
Participation in EKKE's Online Panel
Register for EKKE’s online panel here, to participate in EKKE’s online surveys
Contact
Access to the infrastructure for third parties is granted through collaboration with EKKE. For more information, please contact: alinardis@ekke.gr