Our Purpose Is to Improve Lives

Applied Survey Research (ASR) was started in 1980 with a singular goal. We wanted to create a social research organization that would provide reliable insights to help people improve their communities and their lives.

Since that time, we have provided expertise and insights to help many cities, counties, and organizations measure and advance the quality of life for the people they serve. That includes helping them reduce violence, address social equity, provide services to people without shelter, improve early childhood education, and find solutions for other common challenges.

This has become a source of personal fulfillment for us because, ultimately, we help to create better lives for everyone.

Our Expertise Helps You Improve Communities

A great many people in our communities live below the poverty line, have limited access to health care, lack proper job training, or face other barriers to a fulfilling life. The resulting problems can negatively affect quality of life for everyone. ASR’s expertise in survey design, data collection, and analysis provides vital insights about these conditions.

In turn, our clients can use that information to create targeted programs and solutions to assist young children, teen mothers, seniors, low-income families, at-risk youth, veterans, people without shelter, and other vulnerable groups. Further, we provide follow-up surveys that help communities measure their progress and make necessary adjustments.

We also can tell you what your community is doing well—and how to build on that success.

Among our repeat clients and partners are public and private agencies, federal and state governments, health and human service organizations, city and county offices, school districts, colleges and universities, and charitable foundations. Many of them have relied on ASR for many years because they know that our insights are accurate and dependable.