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NORC at the University Chicago
Developing innovative research methods and tools.

The experts in NORC’s Methodology & Quantitative Social Sciences department design rigorous, efficient methods for gathering, evaluating, and analyzing data. We are innovators who work with data of all kinds and research emerging technologies.

We advise on study design, data collection, data quality assessment, advanced analytics, and dissemination. We are specialists in research and experimental design, recruitment and retention, instrument design and testing, evaluating measures, causal inference methods, machine learning, analysis of clustered data, spatial modeling, and data visualization.

Department Lead

Leah Christian
Senior Vice President

Methodology & Quantitative Social Sciences Experts

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When projects require extraordinary creativity and expertise, we’re up to the challenge.

2024 National Survey of Early Care and Education

Examining early care and education after major disruption

Client:

Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the Department of Health and Human Services

A Data Dashboard to Promote Postsecondary Success

Developing tools to support college access and equity

Client:

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

American Time Use Survey Eldercare Questions for Web

Developing a web mode for the nation’s premier survey on how Americans spend their time

Funder:

Bureau of Labor Statistics