Major field projects
Completed fieldwork. Each job names the client, our role and the year.
These are completed field projects. Prime means we held the field contract. Subcontractor, vendor and teaming partner mean we worked under another firm. Use the role named on the job.
- MICS 2022, UNICEF Jamaica, prime field contractor, 2021 to 2022.
- Child Protection Compact, baseline 2019 and endline 2021 to 2022, local partner.
- World Bank surveys, Respect Survey and Enterprise Survey, 2023.
- Tourist willingness to pay, The Nature Conservancy, 2012 to 2013.
- Upper Rio Minho baseline, ESSA Technologies and the IDB, 2018.
- MSME line of credit, Development Bank of Jamaica, Lumin and UWI, 2020.
A fuller project list is on the facts page.
MICS is the household reference. 7,118 households completed of 7,401 occupied (96.2%). 7,903 dwellings sampled. Coverage was all 14 parishes.
Child Protection Compact: baseline and endline
Local field partner on the Child Protection Compact: 2019 baseline under GeoPoll, about 940 interviews, and the 2021-22 endline under EnCompass.
Read the case study →MSME line-of-credit survey for DBJ, Lumin and UWI
Prime contractor, with analysis, for a 2020 MSME line-of-credit study with DBJ, Lumin and UWI. 111 interviews by paper and telephone.
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MICS 2022: a national household survey on tablets
Balcostics was prime field contractor for UNICEF MICS 2022. CAPI in CSPro, all 14 parishes, 7,118 households completed of 7,401 occupied.
Read the case study →Tourist willingness to pay at airports and cruise ports
Prime contractor for The Nature Conservancy, 2012-2013: 1,067 face-to-face tourist interviews at airports and cruise ports, plus analysis.
Read the case study →Upper Rio Minho baseline for ESSA and the IDB
Prime field contractor for the 2018 Upper Rio Minho baseline with ESSA and the IDB. About 500 farmers, face-to-face, with a focus-group script.
Read the case study →Respect Survey and Enterprise Survey, 2023
2023 CAPI fieldwork for the World Bank Respect Survey in Jamaica, and a teaming role on the Enterprise Survey in Jamaica and Barbados.
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