«Ekspert fikri»

Center for Socio-economical and Marketing Research

«Ekspert fikri» was founded in1991

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Executive director – Arustan Joldasov

 

Office address:

97a, Khurshid Street,

Tashkent 100128, Uzbekistan

 

Mailing address:

 

97a, Khurshid Street,

Tashkent 700128, Uzbekistan

Tel: (+99871) 2410930, 2415005, 2417726, 2410402

Fax: (+99871) 2410488

E-mail: arslan@expert-center.uz

 

Principal activities in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan:

 

Socio-economical surveys

Marketing surveys

Public opinion polls

Press monitoring and content analysis since 1993

Consultations, training and workshops

 

More than 1000 surveys devoted to the following topics: marketing; communication and mass-media; business environment; reforms in agriculture; environment; energy consumption; ethnic identity and religiousness; living standards; social stratification; nets and capital; conflicts, migration, ethnic minorities; education and health; infrastructure; gender issues; drugs and HIV/AIDS issues; and many others.

 

Staff and facilities

 

•  20 permanent employees;

•  150 interviewers and line supervisors recruited on a part time contract basis;

•  regular certification of interviewers and supervisors;

•  network of local branches in 12 regions;

•  providing supervision over at least 10 interviewers;

•  own data entry division;

•  35 computerized workplaces linked into a network;

•  office of 200 square meters, with a hall for training and workshops, and a room with one-way mirror for focus group discussions;

•  2 publishing desktops, 2 copiers;

•  video and audio recording equipment for qualitative research;

  SPSS PC software, databases either in SPSS and DBF formats.

 

Skills and qualification

 

•  Summer School on Statistics, Essex University

•  School on Statistics, Michigan University

•  Faculty of Sociology, Moscow State University

•  Faculty of Sociology, Tashkent State University

•  Faculty of Mathematics, Tashkent State University

•  Faculty of Biology, Tashkent State University

•  Faculty of Chemistry, Tashkent State University

and others

 

Research methods used

 

  quantitative method (door-to-door, face-to-face interviews, etc.);

  qualitative research (focus groups, in-depth interviews, PRA and PPA, case studies, etc.);

•  CATI - Computer Assisted Telephone Interview.

 

 

Provided stages of surveys

 

•  sample design and implementation; (up to 7,000 households)

•  questionnaire design, adaptation and translation into local languages;

•  questionnaire pretest;

•  training of interviewers and supervisors; (using test exam)

•  fieldwork;

•  quality control; (with re-visits of 10-20% of interviewed respondents/households)

•  data encoding, entry, and cleaning;

•  data analysis;

•  preparation of analytical reports;

•  preparation of reports on field works and sample implementations;

  presentations and workshops.

 

Clients and Partners:

 

  ABA/CEELI.

  ABTZdraw-plus.

•  Afkor (Tajikistan)

  Asian Development Bank.

  BAT – British American Tobacco.

  BAS Program (EBRD).

  BBC World. Media Audience Survey.

  BRIF (Kazakhstan).

  Cambridge University.

  Center for Economical Research (Uzbekistan).

  CESSI (Russia and Kazakhstan).

  Counterpart Consortium.

•  El – Pikir (Êyrgyzstan)

  ELLE.

  Eurasia Group (US).

  European University Institute, Florence.

  GTZ (Germany).

  Inter-media Survey Institute.

  Internet company.

  International Foundation for Election Systems.

  Japan International Cooperation Agency.

  Johns Hopkins University.

  John Snow, Inc/World Bank.

  Michigan University.

  Ministry of Health Protection, Republic of Uzbekistan.

  Medicines san Frontiers.

  Mercy Corp.

  National Bank, Uzbekistan.

  Natural Resources Management Project/USAID.

  Open Society Institute.

  OSCE.

  Osteuropa Institute (Germany).

•  Panorama (Tajikistan)

  PIAR/SIAR.Turkey.

  Public Service International.

  Reynolds Tobacco (RJR).

  ROMIR (RUSSIA).

  State Department of Statistics, Republic of Uzbekistan.

  State Committee for Nature Protection, Republic of Uzbekistan.

  Stone and Webster, Inc/World Bank.

  The Futures Group.

  Unilever Export.

  UNDP.

  UNESCO.

  UNFPA.

•  UNHCR

  UNICEF.

•  UN International Organization for Migration

  UNIFEM.

•  U.S. Institute of Peace.

  World Bank.

And many others since 1990.