SSRS Solutions

SSRS ABS Innovations

Elevating Address-based Sampling to New Levels

Combining experience, rigor, and innovation, SSRS elevates Address-Based Sampling (ABS) to new levels to deliver high quality, probability-based, data efficiently and cost-effectively. Our Advanced Methods team includes industry leaders in ABS studies, methodological experimentation, and model-based adaptive and tailored designs. Merging tested best-practice with machine-learning predictive modeling, we make address-based samples work for our clients’ needs.

Key Features of SSRS ABS Innovations

SSRS ABS Database

A critical tool for modeling the presence of rare or hard-to-reach demographic groups. The ABS Database is maintained by our advanced methods team and archives sampling data, deidentified responses, and paradata from previous SSRS-administered ABS collections. Comprising data for nearly 2.1 million U.S. addresses, over 260,000 survey responses with up to 850 data points each, the database allows the SSRS team to build predictive models that effectively identify, target, and recruit respondents in a highly-tailored way.

ABS for Hard-to-reach and Under Surveyed Populations

Our sample designs allow us to reach representative samples of unique populations including low-incidence racial, ethnic, and religious subgroups, immigrants, unemployed and uninsured individuals, and households with children. Our unique approach combines linked external data and model-based sample designs to find key target populations, and experimentally-tested contact strategies to obtain responses from them.

Mixed Methods/Mixed Modes

SSRS ABS designs employ multiple contact and response modes including mailed push-to-web, inbound- and outbound-phone, and self-administered paper and pencil surveys. Our designs incorporate best practice with the unique needs of the target population along with study-requirements and client resources to deliver the highest quality solutions.

Adaptive Designs

One-size-fits-all data collection methods are not always the best way to collect high-quality data at an affordable cost. Using linked auxiliary data and dynamic predictive models of response behavior, adaptive survey designs can improve cost effectiveness by directing limited data collection resources to sample members for which they are most likely to be necessary and effective. Our Advanced Methods team can recommend adaptive design protocols that are tailored to the goals and needs of each study, whether it is maximizing the response rate, minimizing nonresponse bias, or controlling costs.

Methodological Rigor

Turn to us for research that meets the standards applied by state governments and top-tier journals. ABS survey research requires an extended field period, multiple contact-attempts, and tailored refusal conversion efforts. We have a long list of studies meeting stringent rules and adhering to the best practices of survey research.

SSRS ABS Database

A critical tool for modeling the presence of rare or hard-to-reach demographic groups. The ABS Database is maintained by our advanced methods team and archives sampling data, deidentified responses, and paradata from previous SSRS-administered ABS collections. Comprising data for nearly 2.1 million U.S. addresses, over 260,000 survey responses with up to 850 data points each, the database allows the SSRS team to build predictive models that effectively identify, target, and recruit respondents in a highly-tailored way.

ABS for Hard-to-reach and Under Surveyed Populations

Our sample designs allow us to reach representative samples of unique populations including low-incidence racial, ethnic, and religious subgroups, immigrants, unemployed and uninsured individuals, and households with children. Our unique approach combines linked external data and model-based sample designs to find key target populations, and experimentally-tested contact strategies to obtain responses from them.

Mixed Methods/Mixed Modes

SSRS ABS designs employ multiple contact and response modes including mailed push-to-web, inbound- and outbound-phone, and self-administered paper and pencil surveys. Our designs incorporate best practice with the unique needs of the target population along with study-requirements and client resources to deliver the highest quality solutions.

Adaptive Designs

One-size-fits-all data collection methods are not always the best way to collect high-quality data at an affordable cost. Using linked auxiliary data and dynamic predictive models of response behavior, adaptive survey designs can improve cost effectiveness by directing limited data collection resources to sample members for which they are most likely to be necessary and effective. Our Advanced Methods team can recommend adaptive design protocols that are tailored to the goals and needs of each study, whether it is maximizing the response rate, minimizing nonresponse bias, or controlling costs.

Methodological Rigor

Turn to us for research that meets the standards applied by state governments and top-tier journals. ABS survey research requires an extended field period, multiple contact-attempts, and tailored refusal conversion efforts. We have a long list of studies meeting stringent rules and adhering to the best practices of survey research.

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