De Cijferij offers statistical consulting tailored to our clients' undertaking. In particular we offer the following services:
- Development of research design
- Design of surveys
- Administering questionnaires in an online survey tool
- Interviewing respondents and data collection
- Data input
- Data checking and cleaning
- Data transformations
- Statistical analyses
- Report of the analysis results
- Presentation of the analysis results
Development of research design
Developing a thorough research design is of immense importance for a smooth course of the research.
From the onset of your research De Cijferij offers you professional advice and works out the best analysis plan together with you.
In this initiation phase we seek the answers to the following questions:
- What is the exact research matter?
- Which hypothesis tests will be used?
- Which variables will be measured?
- What methodology must be used?
- Who are the respondents?
- How do we collect the data?
- What is the main objective of the research?
- What type of report corresponds with the research?
- What time frame do we set?
Design of surveys
Designing an adequate servey isn’t easy.
The quality of your survey determines the methodological possibilities of your research.
De Cijferij is there for you to assist with setting up the optimal survey to make your research most efficient.
Administering questionnaires in an online survey tool
Online surveys are quick and inexpensive. Do you want to know why it is efficient and therefore interesting for you to use online questionnaires? Here are some of the benefits:
- Respondents are easy to reach
- Data is promptly available
- Online surveys are low cost
- Possibility to use motion pictures such as video’s
If you wish to implement the survey in an online tool, De Cijferij will gladly provide that service. If needed we can adapt your layout and embed your company logo.
Interviewing respondents and data collection
De Cijferij collects data through following means:
- Face-to-face interviews
- Telephone interviews
- Online surveys
- Mystery shopping
- and more
Data input
One of the programs De Cijferij works with is the statistical software package SPSS.
Data input is realised through printed out questionnaires, excel format documents or online tools.
Data checking and cleaning
Prior to starting with the statistical analysis De Cijferij subjects your data to a necessary comprehensive data cleaning, which entails finding and correcting data mistakes, detecting outliers and defining missing values. Additional, variables and their values are labelled, which result in clear and meaningful outputs.
Data transformations
To achieve optimal data processing, the available raw data can be subjected to data transformation.
Statistical analyses
We apply various types of analysis, ranging from simple descriptive statistics to more complex multivariate tests.
A combination of different techniques results in a greater insight about your data.
- Frequency tables and cross tabulations
- Parameters of central tendency, dispersion, skewness and kurtosis
- T-tests
- Non parametric tests
- Correlation tests
- Distribution tests
- Regression analysis
- Logistic regression analysis
- Factor analysis
- Cluster analysis
- Analysis of variance
- Conjoint analysis
- Rule induction
- Decision trees
- GAP-analysis
- Importance-Satisfaction analysis
- And more
Report of the analysis results
(Reporting can be concise or extensive, to suit the clients’ level and expectations)
Every analysis report is accompanied by a covering report that interprets the analysisresults in a clear and common language.
The analysis’ output can be built-in in and integrated into your communication project.
The depth and the scope of the analysis report is always tailored to meet your needs.
De Cijferij provides reports on different levels, ranging from basic to in-depth scientific level.
Presentation of the analysis results
De Cijferij can travel to your company to display the analysis results in a presentation and/ or deliver them to you in a clear PowerPoint presentation.