Open Call: Inviting Organizations and Individuals to Conduct Telephone Survey
Deadline: 26-Sep-21
The U.S. Embassy Bridgetown / Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announce an open competition for organizations and individuals to submit applications to carry out a program to conduct surveys of residents of Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.
Objectives
Conduct surveys of residents of Barbados and the six countries of the Eastern Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines) focusing on public attitudes toward international affairs, as well as domestic economic and social issues.
A nationally representative public opinion survey broken down by country (Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Dominica; Grenada; St. Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; and St. Vincent and the Grenadines) in February 2022.
U.S. Embassy Bridgetown will provide a list of approximately 10 to 20 questions (9-19 closedend questions and 1 open-end question), plus demographics. To assist in drafting your proposal, they estimate that the average interview time for this survey will be 20-25 minutes.
In your proposal, please budget for the following:
One survey with 9 close-end questions, 1 open-end;
One survey with 14 close-end questions, 1 open-end;
One survey with 19 close-end questions, and 1 open-end.
Funding Information
Length of performance period: September 2021 to March 2022 (6 months)
Number of awards anticipated: No more than three awards
Award amounts: awards may range from a minimum of $75,000 to a maximum of $175,000
Total available funding: USD $175,000.00
Applicants Responsibilities
Designing an appropriate sample;
Formatting the questionnaire submitted by U.S. Embassy Bridgetown;
Conducting 5 cognitive interviews and a pretest;
Managing fieldwork;
Coding questionnaires, entering data, checking and cleaning the data; and
Providing required deliverables: detailed sampling design, pretest report, marginal frequencies, data in SPSS and ASCII formats, codebook, methodological report, final version of questionnaire and additional supporting documentation as necessary.
Deliverables
The applicant shall deliver the following to U.S. Embassy Bridgetown by email:
Detailed sampling design;
Cognitive interview reports;
Pretest report;
Final version(s) of the questionnaire;
Marginal frequencies (weighted, if appropriate) for all questions, including demographics;
The final, cleaned data files including all survey questions, demographics, interviewing information and (if applicable) weight values. These files shall be in two formats:
ASCII, with all records having the same length
SPSS Windows format (*.sav), with all variables and values labeled in English
A complete codebook for all survey questions, demographics, interviewing information, and (if applicable) weight values, identifying the column positions of all variables in the ASCII file;
A detailed methodological report which contains sufficient details on the sampling design and weighting so that independent researchers would be able to replicate the survey using only information in the report.
Eligibility Criteria
The U.S. Embassy Bridgetown encourages applications from the United States, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/nongovernmental organizations with programming experience
Individuals
Non-profit or governmental educational institutions
Governmental institutions
For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=335745