IPOR successfully conducted a series of two Computer Assisted Telephonic Interview (CATI) surveys in
Iran. The survey was conducted on different Socio-Political aspects with the young Iranians less than of
30 year of age. A sample of 15,000, in each wave, was achieved by employing services of 40 experienced
Persian speaking (with Iranian dialect) enumerators. A simple random sampling technique was used for
the data collection from the specified age group (18-30 years).
A software was developed to integrate the telephony with call center applications uploading the
research tool for punching data directly to the data-base. With this CATI software, IPOR produced
various detail and survey summary reports to effectively manage the project. These include total and
per-hour results-by- interviewer, results per day or per attempt, the number of telephone numbers still
active, response rate, etc. All the telecom networks of Iran were used for data collection to minimize the
selection bias.
