A look at current best practices in survey questionnaire translation and how Pew Research Center applies these approaches.

Pew Research Center recently sought to translate more than 11,000 open-ended survey responses into English.

After venturing into the world of computational social science in 2015, the Center needed to develop new tools and workflows.

The typology study examines U.S. politics through the prism of people’s values and attitudes, not just their party labels.

Showing margins of errors in graphics can help prevent readers from thinking that survey estimates are more precise than they really are.

Nonresponse rates for open-ended survey questions on Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel can range from 3% to just over 50%.

Surveys that ask about voting can be made more accurate by validating respondents’ self-reported turnout with official voting records.

The final post in our series examines how topic models can and can’t help when classifying large amounts of text.

Keyword oversampling can be a powerful way to analyze uncommon subsets of text data.