What can be done to improve the competitive environment of Ohio businesses? This report by The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business and CHRR provides an in-depth look at answers from Ohio’s Mid-Market companies. Mid-market companies, which are businesses with more than 20 workers and over $5 million in yearly sales, are the key to understanding the economy of Ohio since they employ the majority of the state’s workforce.

Ohio Mid-Market Business Study 2011

New Ideas on Economic Policy
from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Economic policy is in the forefront of a lot of people’s minds today. Forefront, the Cleveland Fed’s showcase of policy ideas, is devoted to critical policy issues facing our region and the nation at-large.

CHRR is honored to have the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland using the Consumer Finance Monthly (CFM) data in their article, so please check it out!

If you are interested in learning more about the CFM data, please click here or contact us.

Forefront Magazine (article link here)

CHRR will be participating in the 2011 Research Expo at The Ohio State University on November 8th, please join us!

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CHRR offers VoIP telephony services to university departments located both on and off campus for a very cost conscious price. VoIP telephony converts your voice into data and transports it over the internet instead of a regular PSTN phone line. This technology allows us to have a broader reach than any PSTN company can with normal TDM services while still providing the highest standard in voice quality for much less!

CHRR has nearly 10 years of experience and millions of minutes of calls on a system used for large, complex survey operations that have linked hundreds of interviewers in homes across the U.S. and call centers around the world. We are moving modern, high-quality, state-of-the-art telephony from research tool to campus service.

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The new tree view will allow users to search for data hierarchically. The data are categorized into a tree structure. Users will open and close nodes to find data, much like file folders or product catalogs. The new tree view will also provide the user with a quick overview of the major categories that the data are grouped into. The new tree view in Investigator will be available this year, so check back soon!

We want to take this opportunity to thank all of you. We value each and every relationship and want to say “Thank You” for your help in our success. Your Consumer Finance data will be here when you get back to work. Updated and ready for you to query and evaluate how the American Household faired in 2010. 4th quarter data will be available no later than January 15, 2011.

Please log into the Investigator to select and extract your variables.

CFM Newsletter 2010 - Q4 Issue 4

Information about the Ohio Study is now available! Please click the links below for more information about the study.
    Ohio Study Flyer
    Principal Investigator Letter

Purpose of Study - This study is intended to collect information on how children spend their time outside of the home and school: where they go, who they spend time with, and what they do when not in home or school. Adolescents who get involved with drugs, violence, or risky sexual activity typically do so when they are not at home or in school, so it’s important to understand how this time is used differently across families and communities.

Principal Investigators - Dr. Chris Browning, Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University, and his colleagues, Drs. John Casterline, Elizabeth Cooksey, Mei-Po Kwan, and Zhenchao Qian are conducting this research.

Principal Implementers - Margaret Lowden and Wes Whitmore are the principal implementers of all phases of the project and full-time staff at CHRR. Their work includes questionnaire programming, sample design, preparation of all training materials, and troubleshooting for technical problems that may include the Web Survey and Vicidial support.