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Research laboratory

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Research laboratory

Welcome to the WISO Research Lab

The WiSo Research Lab is a centre of excellence for excellent survey research at the WiSo Faculty.

The survey laboratory can be used to collect data within the framework of courses. Students have the opportunity to use the infrastructure and know-how of the laboratory for qualification work. In addition, the survey laboratory can be used for projects funded by budgets of the WiSo Faculty.

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Booking a survey

The Research Lab team at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences Survey Laboratory provides comprehensive advice and support for the  planning, performance, and evaluation of personal interviews with or without computer assistance (CAPI), online interviews (CAWI), and pen-and-paper interviews (PAPI). Contact us.

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Information for survey subjects

Did you get a call from the WISO Research Lab (Tel: +49 40 2395-11900) and want to know why, or do you just want to find out more about the Research Lab in general? Read the

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Standardized interviews

The WISO Research Lab provides numerous software and hardware solutions for standardized interviews. For more information on CATI, CAWI, PAPI and CAPI surveys, see

Persönliches Interview, junge Frau interviewt jungen Mann

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Qualitative interviews

In the WISO Research Lab we can provide you with individual solutions for a qualitative narrative or expert interviews and are happy to help you plan and implement your research. Contact us!

Contact

WISO Research Lab
Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
Von-Melle-Park 5
20146 Hamburg

Our services

  • programming and advice on CATI and CAPI surveys,
  • conducting CAPI, CAWI and PAPI surveys; questionnaires advice and design; sampling procedures; pre-tests
  • CAPI: field management; supervision; data collection, cleansing and archiving; 41 mobile 2-in-1 tablet computers for CAPI
  • CAWI: programming and advice for online surveys and online experiments using an online survey tool
  • Panel: online survey tool server; project management; participant pool (Hamburg panel with more than 1,000 citizens of Hamburg)
  • data backup and archiving
  • PAPT: programing and advice for surveys in software for electronic examinations, OCR scan and validation stations for fully automated collection of large numbers of paper questionnaires