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• Posted on 15 January 2021 by Natasha Phillips, Researcher

  Conducting remote cognitive interviews: telephone or video conferencing?

  NatCen’s Methodology & Innovation Hub includes a team of experts who specialise in developing and testing survey questions to ensure measures elicit high quality data. Our day-to-day work often involves conducting interviews with members of the public to assess whether they understand survey questions as intended and can provide valid and reliable answers.

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  Tags: COVID-19, cognitive interviewing, fieldwork, methodology, telephone interviews, video interviews

• Posted on 16 December 2020 by Sir John Curtice, Senior Research Fellow

  Has COVID-19 shifted public attitudes?

  

  Now that the prospect of an end to the pandemic is in sight, the question of what post-pandemic Britain should look like will soon become a pressing one. Should everyday life and public policy return to ‘normal’ – or does COVID-19 represent an opportunity to reshape the country’s social and economic life and the role that government plays in facilitating it?

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  Tags: British Social Attitudes, COVID-19, income and welfare, social and political attitudes