All practice areas are supported by our two research centers:

The 2M Survey Research Center

Our onsite 56-seat Survey Research Center uses state-of-the-art technology and multimodal approaches that integrate mail, email, phone, and web modalities to facilitate a wide range of survey needs.

• Customizable survey solutions and advanced quality assurance tools
• Computer-assisted interviewing (CATI, CAPI, CARI, CADE)
• Cognitive monitoring and focus groups
• Nationwide field interviewing
• Information security and physical safeguards that comply with all applicable laws and regulations for the secure handling of federal data, including personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI)
• Training lab
• Interviewer training
• Economic experiments
• Real-time video/audio equipment to support recording and archiving of data collection activities
• Broadcasting that allows for the control of multiple camera feeds
• Additional apps to facilitate real-time interaction, such as voting or instant messaging

The 2M Statistical and Geospatial Innovation Center

We provide solutions to complex problems using advanced statistical solutions and high-performance computing resources.

• Big data mining, modeling, and simulation
• Spatial analysis and visualization
• Database creation and management, including merging large and diverse administrative databases
• Implementation of alternative estimation strategies for complex statistical models
• Merging large and diverse administrative databases
• Creating applications for GIS
• High-performance computing resources to support various approaches to parallelization, including harnessing the structure of Graphical Processing Units (GPUs)

Our Service Areas

Research and Evaluation

• Evaluation design and execution
• Data collection, management, and processing
• Primary and secondary data analysis
• Systematic and literature reviews

Data Management, Collection, and Processing

• Large-scale quantitative survey research
• Web and mail surveys
• Cognitive testing
• In-depth interviews
• Focus groups
• Behavior monitoring
• Field interviewer training and material development
• Computer-assisted services (CATI, CAPI, CARI, CADE)
• Integrated multimodal approaches

Technical Assistance

• Training and education
• Stakeholder engagement
• Grant management support and performance measurement and monitoring

Economic Analysis and Population Forecasting

• Applied microeconomics: health, labor, education, housing, public, behavioral, pharmacoeconomics, and urban economics
• Microeconometrics: evaluation studies and causal inference utilizing panel data, preprocessing propensity scoring, regression discontinuity
• Regional and macroeconometric forecasting: forecast broad revenue categories for local governments and integrating macro-forecasts
• Simulation for policy analysis: Future Elderly Model (FEM), the Cornell Simulation Model (CORSIM)
• Policy analysis

Statistical Consulting

• Sample design: simple random to complex multistage designs, and spatial sampling
• Weighting
• Nonresponses, power, and design effects and estimation analysis

Clinical Trials Management

• Clinical monitoring/site management
• Protocol design/project management
• Participant recruitment and retention
• Biostatistics/data management

Logistics and Communications

• Meeting planning and conference support
• Strategic communications and marketing
• Graphic design and data visualization