AmeriSpeak: NORC's Breakthrough Panel-Based Research Platform
AmeriSpeak® conducts surveys for experts who can’t afford to be wrong. It is the first U.S. multi-client household panel to combine the speed and cost-effectiveness of panel surveys with enhanced representativeness of the U.S. population, an approach designed to achieve an industry-leading response rate, and an innovative sample quality report card.

Developed and funded by NORC, AmeriSpeak is the most scientifically rigorous panel solution available in the U.S., giving NORC clients a breakthrough new option for conducting statistical surveys of the population.

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What Sets AmeriSpeak Apart

AmeriSpeak is distinctive on three key dimensions of survey quality:

  • Sample Representativeness - AmeriSpeak’s panel is representative of the entire U.S. population because it leverages NORC’s National Frame, the industry leader in sample coverage. The National Frame uses area probability sampling and includes additional coverage of hard-to-survey population segments such as rural and low-income households that are underrepresented in surveys relying on address-based sampling.
  • Response Rate - Due to the rigor of its panel recruitment, AmeriSpeak surveys are designed to achieve the highest response rate of any multi-client panel solution on the market. To enhance the representativeness and response rate of the panel, the AmeriSpeak recruitment protocol includes the use of NORC field interviewers for face-to-face recruitment.
  • Sample Quality Report – Through the NORC Card, AmeriSpeak delivers a quantitative measurement of sample quality for clients, providing an objective measure of sample representation.

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NORC AmeriSpeak Panel Selected for Use in TESS Research Studies

NORC’s AmeriSpeak Panel, a nationally representative, probability-based survey panel, will collaborate with the Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) online platform to conduct all successful TESS research study proposals.

TESS has supported general population experiments on behalf of investigators throughout the social sciences since 2002, and the program recently received renewed funding from the National Science Foundation. Led by principal investigators James Druckman of Northwestern University and Jeremy Freese of Stanford University, the online platform works to promote innovative experimentation and to provide researchers with a no-cost opportunity for data collection and discovery, as well as to house an online collection of exemplary social science experiments.

Participants in TESS’s Short Studies Program (SSP) will also be recruited from the AmeriSpeak Panel. This program accepts proposals for fielding very brief population-based survey experiments on a general population of at least 2,000 adults.

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