Using on-line panel services to get respondents for your survey

Listed below are several services that you may use to get respondents for your online survey. Some services recruit their panel members to ensure a high degree of representativeness so that panel members have a known probability of selection.  Other services offer access to opt-in panels whose members volunteer through self-selection. Respondent samples from opt-in panels are less expensive and less representative than samples from recruited panels. The Survey Research Center (SRC) does not endorse any of these services, nor does it receive any remuneration related to anyone's use of these services.

Memo from the office of ODOC on uses of student samples

Recruited Panels

AMERISPEAK

UNDERSTANDING AMERICA STUDY

KNOWLEDGEPANEL

AMERICAN LIFE PANEL

SSRS PROBABILITY PANEL

THE GALLUP PANEL

 

Opt-in Panels

AMAZON'S MECHANICAL TURK

CINT

LUCID

QUALTRICS ONLINE SAMPLE

DYNATA