# Balcostics Research at a glance

Plain facts with dates. Use these figures when you quote Balcostics Research.

Company particulars were checked on 1 October 2026. Each project below is a completed job with at least one of a numbered invoice, a signed contract, a complete dataset, live field reports, or a delivered analysis or final report.

## Legal name and office

- Legal name: Balcostics Limited, trading as Balcostics Research.
- Ownership: Jamaican-owned, privately held.
- Incorporated: 2011.
- Address: Unit 10, QVilla Plaza, 7-9 Villa Road, Mandeville, Manchester, Jamaica.
- Email: research@balcostics.com.
- Phones: (876) 964-4046 and (876) 314-4543.
- DUNS: 816442319.
- SAM.gov UEI: RDRZNB17HGL7.
- Website: balcostics.com.

Checked 1 October 2026.

## Services we offer

Data collection by CAPI, CATI and PAPI, including through the myVoice platform. Questionnaire design and programming. Data entry, cleaning, codebooks and weighting support under the project manager. Baseline and endline fieldwork. Attitude and perception surveys. Focus-group logistics, focus-group moderation and key informant interviews. Coverage: all 14 parishes. Training rooms in Kingston and Manchester on demand. CAPI devices owned. Vehicles arranged per job. Google Workspace field dashboards for named project staff.

Checked 1 October 2026. Software: myVoice, CSPro, SurveyCTO, SPSS, Stata, R.

## MICS 2022

- Client: UNICEF Jamaica.
- Role: prime field contractor.
- Years: 2021 to 2022.
- Mode: CAPI in CSPro.
- Coverage: all 14 parishes.
- Interviewers trained: more than 60.
- Sample: 7,903 dwellings sampled.
- Completed: 7,118 households completed of 7,401 occupied (96.2%).

Checked 1 October 2026.

## Other projects

Roles are prime, subcontractor, vendor, field, or teaming partner.

- Child Protection Compact baseline, 2019. GeoPoll / EnCompass / U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons. About 940 interviews, 6 parishes. CAPI with some CATI. Role: subcontractor to GeoPoll.
- Child Protection Compact endline, December 2021 to February 2022. EnCompass / USAID / U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons. CAPI in the field. Role: subcontractor to EnCompass. EnCompass report figures: 302 community, 101 Jamaica Constabulary Force, 130 other Government of Jamaica, and 69 leaders.
- World Bank Respect Survey, 2023. CAPI in Jamaica. Role: field.
- World Bank Group / A2F Enterprise Survey, signed 14 February 2023. CAPI in Jamaica and Barbados. Role: teaming subcontractor.
- ESL tourism-sector collection, 2021. CAPI, face-to-face, Jamaica. Role: prime.
- GeoPoll vendor CATI/CAPI, 2020 to 2021, Jamaica. Role: vendor.
- Development Bank of Jamaica / Lumin / UWI, MSME line of credit, 2020. 111 interviews. PAPI and CATI. Role: prime, including analysis.
- ESSA Technologies / Inter-American Development Bank, Upper Rio Minho baseline, 2018. About 500 farmers. Face-to-face, with a focus-group script. Role: prime.
- CARIBSAVE beneficiary survey, 2016. Face-to-face and phone. Jamaica, St. Vincent, Grenada and St. Lucia. Role: prime.
- The Nature Conservancy, tourist willingness to pay, 2012 to 2013. 1,067 face-to-face interviews at airports and cruise ports. Role: prime, including analysis and the report.
- August Town crime-prevention survey, 2017, with Abt / Janet Bedasse. Face-to-face in the community. Role: prime.
- WINC, 2018. Research-assistant work by the managing director in 12 countries. Balcostics did not hold the contract.

Checked 1 October 2026.

## myVoice, 1 October 2026

Live response from `https://myvoice.page/api/surveys/hub-stats` on 1 October 2026:

- total_respondents: 6,063
- total_surveys: 157
- total_orgs: 22
- parishes: 14

Balcostics reads total_respondents as active registered members. Members join on their own and earn points. The panel is not a probability sample. Published counts drop flagged and duplicate accounts. One redeeming account is allowed per device. Exports can include parish, age group and gender, and education or employment where asked. Exports do not include names or email addresses.

The offline field collector (Android, `https://myvoice.page/field`) does offline capture and sync, case management with contact attempts, a household roster, random (Kish) respondent selection, GPS at start and finish, a supervisor flag when an interview is more than 500 metres from the address, and per-question timing. Study owner: 10,000 points a month. Interviewers: free.

Indicative prices from the May 2026 quotation model, all-island panel: about J$70,000 / J$186,000 / J$324,000 / J$470,000 for 100 / 300 / 600 / 1,000 respondents (about J$470 to J$700 each). Face-to-face comparison, our estimate: J$180,000 to J$250,000 / J$540,000 to J$750,000 / J$1.1 million to J$1.5 million / J$1.8 million to J$2.5 million (about J$1,800 to J$2,500 each).

Points packs, WiPay, Jamaican dollars: 1,000 points for J$1,300; 5,000 for J$4,500; 10,000 for J$8,500; 30,000 for J$20,000.

Open-answer sentiment calls an external AI model.

Checked against the hub-stats response on 1 October 2026, and the May 2026 quotation model. Production version for this site is 19.7.8.

## Data protection

- Registered with the Office of the Information Commissioner under the Data Protection Act 2020.
- Registration fee: not yet payable.
- Data protection officer: Abi-Gaye White-Thomas, research@balcostics.com, company address and phones above.
- Website enquiries: kept 24 months, then deleted. See the privacy notice.
- Breach reporting to the Commissioner: within 72 hours of becoming aware (Data Protection Act, section 21(3)).
- People whose personal data is affected are told without undue delay. The Act leaves the form and timing of that notice to regulations.

Checked 1 October 2026. The Act text is the Jamaica Parliament PDF of the Data Protection Act 2020.

## Notes on these figures

- The myVoice panel is self-selected and not a probability sample.
- Panel size is as of the stated date.
- Figures are for completed projects.


Source: https://balcostics.com/facts/