Quantitative Research
Face to face interviews – over 600 field agents and 10 supervisor’s country wide using GPS tracked, picture logging, automatic routing, human error minimizing electronic devices, covering metro, peri-urban and rural areas in all nine provinces in South Africa.
We cover all countries in Africa and have conducted many studies using the face to face methodology with our local and continental teams over many years.
Studies we have experience on range from 100 interviews to 14,000 interviews and durations from 5 minutes to 180 minutes.
Telephonic interviews – 1DCS has a 20 seater call centre using the latest CATI data collection platforms. The call centre is scalable and we can have double the seats available for a campaign in under 5 working days.
Currently we do not conduct telephonic interviews in other African countries except South Africa.
Online interviews – 1DCS has the ability to conduct online interviews using 3 approaches:
Can utilize a client’s home database by sending through a tested link to complete surveys
Can utilize the 1DCS consumer panel and conduct interviews with relevant respondents from selected target markets. Can purchase databases of consumers across any African market