Through the cost sharing approach, agencies and organizations with limited funds can afford to purchase high quality, scientific information. The survey can provide organizations with practically any sort of information concerning the individual citizens within the community. The survey discussed in this brochure is the twenty-second one to be administered under the described format by The Institute. The survey is based on telephone interviews with approximately 850 randomly selected residents of the county. The respondents are randomly chosen through the random digit dialing process.
Respondents are also randomly chosen within households.
The telephone interviews are conducted from UNC Charlotte's campus by interviewers who receive professional training from the Institute's staff. Careful pretesting of the questionnaire is undertaken by the Institute. Interviewers will make repeated attempts to complete the questionnaire with all households contacted. The Institute staff will extensively edit and clean all data prior to the final analysis. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Urban Institute offers the Charlotte Mecklenburg Annual Survey as a research service.