- CABHR
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
- Mailing Address:
- P.O. Box 786
- Milwaukee, WI 53201
- Contact Us:
- Phone 414-229-5008
- Fax 414-229-2872
- cabhr@uwm.edu
CABHR Data Management
Led by Michael Brondino, Ph.D., associate professor of social work in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare and a CABHR scientist, the “Methods Core” provides CABHR scientists with assistance in data collection and management, statistical support, methodological consultation regarding data analyses, study design, and measurement, and services related to grant and article preparation.
Brondino, who was previously employed by the Center for AIDS Intervention Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Family Services Research Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, and the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, has worked on more than 30 federally funded research projects in the role of statistician, methodological consultant, and co-investigator.
His team includes data managers Adam Lippert and Kris Williams, and a part-time data manager, Joelle Anderson, a sociology graduate student.
CABHR offers scientists access to the following software for data collection and management:
Questionnaire Development System (QDS; Nova Research, Inc.)
CABHR’s version of QDS allows data to be collected using computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI), computer-assisted
self-interview (CASI), or audio computer-assisted self-interview (ACASI) formats and can be run on laptop or desktop systems.
Data are managed in QDS’ Warehouse module. The use of skip rules, skip and fill rules, range-checking, and calculations during
data collection contributes to high-quality data requiring little cleaning.
Teleform (Verity, Inc.)
With Teleform, CABHR scientists can quickly create professional looking surveys for administration and then, using CABHR’s
high-speed scanner, scan, clean, and archive the data quickly. In addition to paper and pencil forms, Teleform can also be
used to collect data via fax and for simple web-based surveys.
The Observer (Noldus, Inc.)
“The Observer” software is available for the collection and analysis of direct observational data including interviews or
observations recorded on audiotape or videotape.
DatStat Illume (DatStat, Inc)
DatStat Illume is a sophisticated package used to conduct web-based surveys and manage the resulting data. Easy to use,
DatStat offers the same quality checks available in QDS, resulting in data of very high quality.
PDA/Pocket PC
Data collection applications using direct observation and pocket PCs are individually programmed using embedded Visual Basic or
Visual C++.