Strategic session on the future of survey practices: How has the pandemic affected survey practices - which are worth keeping in the long term? |
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| Coordinator 1 | Mr Andrew Phelps (Office for National Statistics UK) |
| Coordinator 2 | Miss Laura Wilson (Office for National Statistics UK) |
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about seismic changes in the survey research world. Many established national surveys within weeks had to significantly change their collection methodologies in order to continue to feed data to national indicators. Many new collections needed to be stood up at pace to measure the impact of COVID-19.
As the survey world emerges from the pandemic, it is left asking itself many strategic questions about the future of survey practices. This session is designed as an opportunity to discuss these challenges more broadly, and will not focus on specific pieces of research that have been conducted in this area.
This strategic session will focus on:
a. Corporate structures – the impact of increased and dispersed survey activity in a large organisation and strategies to improve cohesion in this new context
b. The impact of the pandemic on field interviewing and post pandemic strategies for effective field activity
c. Legacy survey practices – many new survey practices emerged during COVID - what shouldn't endure and what’s worth keeping?
d. Future – post pandemic preparedness – what can we do to prepare for the next emergency that surveys will need to respond to?
The session will include an opportunity after each paper for audience interaction - sharing experiences and insights of these post pandemic challenges and discussion of potential solutions and ways forward.