Survey Research and Data Collection Projects

Featured Project:

Job Corps National Data Collection Project

Client: Office of Job Corps, U.S. Department Labor

For the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program, IMPAQ is conducting a national survey to collect information on Job Corps students’ experiences and outcomes. The Job Corps Program is a Federally-funded education and vocational training program for at-risk youth aged 16 through 24. The program provides services to approximately 60,000 youth per year at the 122 Job Corps centers located across the country. For this project, IMPAQ conducts over 75,000 telephone surveys each year with former Job Corps enrollees and graduates to assess their satisfaction with the Job Corps program and to collect data on their post-program employment and educational outcomes. The data collected from the survey is used by the Office of Job Corps to measure program outcomes at a national level and to assess Job Corps Centers’ effectiveness.

Project GATE Survey Data Collection

Client: Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor

Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (Project GATE) is an experimental design demonstration and evaluation project designed to investigate the impact of providing microenterprise start-up services to interested individuals. As part of the data collection effort for the evaluation of Project GATE, IMPAQ conducted a telephone survey of over 4,000 study participants and control group members to collect three waves of data. Data were collected at 6 months, 18 months, and 60 months following random assignment. Data collected during these interviews included information on employment and earnings outcomes at several time periods post-receipt of the training and technical assistance services provided as part of this program and provided information important to the assessment of long-term program impacts.

Survey Data Collection for the Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment Study

Client: Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor

As part of the data collection effort for the Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment (REA) study, IMPAQ staff designed and administered a telephone survey to more than 9,000 persons in 21 states who received REA services. The survey enabled IMPAQ to collect data on participants’ program experience and employment and earnings outcomes. IMPAQ also collected and analyzed unemployment insurance administrative data to assess program impacts.

Read the Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment Study Final Report:

Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment Study Final Report

Survey Data Collection for the Privatization Social Support Project

Client: Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Privatization Administration (World Bank)

This project provided the Turkish government with technical assistance and consulting services to assess the social impact of privatization on the Turkish economy and workforce. The study incorporated three separate studies (as part of the World Bank’s Privatization Social Support Project (PSSP) in Turkey), each with its own objective and implementation methodology:

Privatization Economic Impact Study
Privatization Coping Strategies Study
Labor Redeployment Services Study.

As part of the data collection efforts for these studies, IMPAQ conducted a quantitative survey of 3,000 workers displaced by privatization to assess their economic status and a qualitative survey of 200 displaced workers to assess their needs and coping strategies. Each of the surveys was administered at three points in time during the course of the study. In addition to these data collection efforts, IMPAQ collected administrative data to conduct a quasi-experimental comparison study of participants in labor redeployment programs.

For this project, IMPAQ provided the Government of Turkey with technical experts in a variety of fields, including survey design and development, qualitative impact analysis, and experimental design of evaluation impact. The studies were implemented with the assistance of Turkish subcontractors and local Turkish consultants. Final project reports included a thorough analysis of the data, as well as conclusions, recommendations, and policy implications.