The same measurement, for the commissioning institution's question
Governments, companies, foundations and public figures commission IRISP® to measure how a perception stands — among a public, a workforce, a membership, a constituency — against the evidence. The instrument, the field protocol and the review are the institute’s own; the question and the result belong to the commissioning institution.
Who it is for
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Public bodies
Ministries, municipalities, regulators and international organisations: how a policy, an institution or a risk is perceived, by whom, and how far that perception stands from the record.
Governments
Periodic tracking of policy perception, and rapid measurement in times of crisis.
Commissioned work stays with the commissioning institution; it is not published under the institute's name.
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Private institutions and individuals
Companies — How a sector, a firm or a decision is perceived by customers, employees or the public — and where perceived and actual majorities diverge inside an organisation.
Foundations, NGOs and universities — Evidence for programmes and advocacy that must survive scrutiny: baseline and follow-up measurement, designed to be comparable and published if the institution so chooses.
Public figures — How a person is perceived, measured against how that person believes they are perceived. A measurement, not a message: the institute does not advise on persuasion.
Commissioned work
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What can be commissioned
A commissioned study — One question, defined in measurable terms. The instrument is built on the institute’s measurement framework; fieldwork runs under the published ethics protocol; the commissioning institution receives a report with its method note attached.
A tracker — The same indicators, measured at fixed intervals, so that movement is a finding rather than an impression.
Advisory and briefing — A closed-door reading of results — what the numbers can support and what they cannot — for boards, cabinets and leadership teams.
Method transfer — Training the institution's own team to run the instrument, with the institute reviewing design and analysis.
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Ownership
The commissioned findings — Belong to the commissioning institution. They are not published unless it asks.
The method — Is the institute’s, and is already public. A commissioned result can always be checked against a published standard — that is what makes it worth commissioning.
The institute’s programme — Remains open access and is not funded by any party with a stake in its outcome.
The register — Once a year the institute publishes the number and type of commissions it has completed, in aggregate. Client names appear only with consent.
The institute does not take on persuasion work, election forecasting, or a study whose question is written to produce a predetermined answer.
How it runs, how it begins
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Design
The question and the instrument are fixed in writing before any fieldwork. The commissioning institution signs off the instrument; the scientific board reviews it to the same standard as the institute’s own studies.
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Field
Fieldwork follows the published protocol — informed consent, anonymisation at collection, KVKK and GDPR. Individual records never leave the institute. Not to the public, and not to the commissioning institution.
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Delivery
Report, method note and aggregate dataset, delivered together. Confidential by default.
Write with the question, not a brief: one paragraph on what needs to be known and who the population is. The institute replies with a scoping note — whether the question is measurable, how, at what sample, in what time and at what cost.