Founded in 1979, the Institute for Social and Behavioral Science promotes community-oriented research throughout the social and behavioral science disciplines. The institute houses the Survey Research Laboratory, with the capacity to do telephone and mail surveys and polls throughout the Central Florida region, and the Center for Qualitative Methodologies, which specializes in focus-group methods and in-depth interviewing. Institute faculty consult regularly with community agencies and groups on issues of program design and evaluation, data base design, data analysis, how to access and analyze Census data, and geographic information systems (GIS).
DCU Number: 70.0100
