MIG-RATS - Toolkit

Survey Tools and Research

This section is under development. If you have a survey instrument that you have developed or a public domain survey measure that you've found helpful and would like to share, please contact Anne Reither at areither@gmail.com.

"How-To" Guide for Doing Surveys

This book chapter discusses Mathematica's experience conducting phone interviews with people with disabilities and presents recommendations for making phone surveys more accessible. Concrete examples of minor modifications to the survey instrument that can remove barriers and improve self-response rates are provided. The authors note that these minor modifications are neither costly nor difficult to implement.

Survey Tips to Improve Response Rates for People with Disabilities

For additional information on ordering the book or to access other reports on surveying people with disabilities, click here: Survey Division Publications (MPR)

Key Topic(s) - Disability Research

Phone or Face-to-Face? Comparing Data from Surveys of People wit

This issue brief compares the quality of data collected for the National Beneficiary Survey (NBS), a survey of people with mental and physical impairments, via computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI).

Survey Examples

Below you will find several examples of surveys developed by MIG Researchers.

Surveys of Consumers/People with Disabilities (click to view details)

Surveys of Service Providers (click to view details)

Surveys of Employers (click to view details)