Evidence Reviews and Other Reports

Report 1: The post-pandemic role of face-to-face fieldworkers (PDF)

Chris Charman, Sierra Mesplie-Cowan and Debbie Collins
March 2024

Report 2: Training and Capacity Building (PDF)

Debbie Collins and Sierra Mesplie-Cowan (NatCen Social Research), Gabriele Durrant (NCRM, University of Southampton)
August 2024

Report 2b: Training and Capacity Building Workshop Summary (PDF)

September 2024

Report 3: Occupation coding in self-completion surveys: Evidence Review (PDF)

Sebastian Kocar, Matt Brown and Lisa Calderwood (Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL)
February 2025 

Report 4:  Retrospective measurement of life events in online self-completion surveys: Evidence Review (PDF)

Cristian Domarchi (University of Southampton), Olga Maslovskaya (University of Southampton), Lisa Calderwood (University College London), Matt Brown (University College London) 
April 2025

Report 5: Targeted procedures for tackling survey non-response: Evidence Review (PDF)

Viktor Sladka (ISER, University of Essex), Peter Lynn (ISER, University of Essex)
May 2025

Report 6: The post-pandemic role of face-to-face interviewers – second report (PDF)

Chris Charman (Mervelles Ltd), Sierra Mesplie-Escott and Debbie Collins (NatCen) 
October 2025 

Report 7: Maintaining face-to-face survey interviewing capacity – Report on the outcome of deliberative workshops with stakeholders (PDF)

Ciaran Cummins and Debbie Collins
November 2025