About Us
In a developing country, there is large and significant spending every year on social and development programmes. Such programmes give rise to the research of several forms to understand the situation, assess needs and eventually evaluate the programme and its impact on the lives of people. Thus, the need for a dependable, trustworthy, quality research output including findings/ data from the field turns out to be all-important and essential.
MEDIAN enters the market with a sheer objective of bridging the gap in delivering quality research output including the data to its clients. MEDIAN has a well-oriented, experienced research and support team to do justice in shouldering the research efforts of our esteemed clients. MEDIAN led by Jagadish KRISHNAPPA along with other highly able and proficient researchers and experts is all set out with a vision to become a leading research partners that support every aspect of research efforts in India and neighboring countries.
Jagadish KRISHNAPPA, who at a very young age got acquainted with and fascinated by depths and intricacies of research, in particular, of social and development sector, was fostered by veteran researchers in social and marketing sectors in India. He holds a Masters in Sociology with several certificates and diplomas in Research & Management and allied subjects. He has close to 20 years of experience split between Operations and Research in Market and Social Research Agencies.
MEDIAN comprises four units within and each one of them complements one another very well in terms of catering to individual and their clients’ needs and requirements independently and collectively.
Social and Development Research Centre (SDRC)
SDRC is dedicated and offers to carry out full-fledged or a part of assignment in social and development research arena. Read more.
The centre is backed by a strong and diversified staff and consulting panel of demographers, social scientists, Sociologists, statisticians, economists and MBAs and they are spread across the length and breadth of the country.
SDRC’s staff, expert panel and consultants have had experience in research collaborations with various national and international research agencies, universities, NGOs in India and abroad.
Data Acquisition Centre (DAC)
DATC has a wide network of field associates and consultants in all metros (Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata) and mini-metros (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune) and other cities (Cochin, Vijayawada, Vizag, Lucknow, Patna, Gauhati, Imphal, Srinagar, Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Indore) are present in about 17 centers pan India and neighboring countries such as Nepal, Maldives, SriLanka and Iran.Read more.
Other than India, we have capability of collecting data from Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives. Each centre has project specific committed field personnel and panel of data collectors and other freelancers.
DATC collects quantitative and qualitative data with highest quality just not for SDRC but also for a range of products, services and clients from marketing sector. The data collection apparatus is equipped to collect data from various target groups and field settings – urban-rural, B2B, corporate, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions et al.
Data Processing and Analysis Unit (DPAU)
The tabulation/ data processing (DP) part of the centre is managed by experienced data analysts assisted by eminent support staff of coders, data entry operators and data cleaners.Read more.
The team is well fitted to use latest technology including writing programs and handling data from computer aided personal interview (CAPI), computer aided telephonic interview (CATI) studies. The DP team uses the best data entry package that builds in internal logical checks at the first stage itself. Also, advanced statistical packages are used for data analysis. The cleaned data could be submitted in any form as desired and requirements of the clients.
Quality Assurance Cell (QAC)
The QAC is an integral part of MEDIAN and ensures that every important deliverable(such as proposals, reports, summaries, sampling document etc.) to every client from Median is of highest quality and error free. Read more.
The cell comprises a project specific committee with one researcher / subject expert (Head, SDRC or external), one field personnel (Head, DAC) and one statistician or data analyst (Head, DPAU) in conjunction with the variant of deliverables.
And,the data collection and processing is carried out as per the international quality standards.
Our Clients
