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Bharat Surveyभारत सर्वे
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Clients · Research agencies

Your study design, your client relationship, our field teams and software

Bharat Survey works as a survey agency for market research agencies, Indian and international, that need reliable fieldwork across Indian states without building a field network in each one. You send the questionnaire, quotas and timeline. We program it, brief interviewers, run GPS-verified CAPI interviews, back-check a share, and deliver data in your format. Your end client stays yours.

  • Questionnaire programming and translation checks
  • Quota tracking visible to your project manager daily
  • GPS, time and duration on every interview
  • Back-checks and a field quality note with each delivery
Retail audit · Wave 3 · 1,200 outletsUpdated 12s ago · sample
3,000
Target outlets
2,184
Visited
1,962
Audited
1,871
Accepted
Daily accepted auditsLast 12 days
Quality
Accepted1871
In review64
Outside area19
Weak signal8
Top gaps · by territory
Out of stock62%
Planogram48%
Price label31%
Visibility24%
Location evidence
Survey #BS-0412
  • In areaInside approx. boundary
  • Accuracy±12 m
  • Time09:42 · fresh fix
  • Mock GPSNot detected
  • Interview length11 min
Added to accepted count
Subcontracted fieldworkCAPI programmingHindi and regional translationsDaily quota reportsBack-check logsSPSS and CSV deliveryNo contact with your clientNDA before brief
How a subcontract runs

Research agencies need a field partner who behaves like part of their own operations team: predictable, transparent about problems, and quiet with the end client.

01

RFQ and feasibility

You share incidence assumptions, quotas, geography and length of interview. We reply with a feasibility note and a cost per completed interview, and flag quotas that look unrealistic.
Day 1–3
02

Programming and pilot

We program the script with your logic, you test the link, and a small pilot checks timing and translation before full launch.
Week 1
03

Fieldwork with daily reports

Your project manager gets daily achievement by quota cell, rejected interviews with reasons, and any field issues in plain words.
Fieldwork
04

Delivery and quality note

Clean data, labelled variables, verbatims and a field quality note covering back-check share, rejections and deviations from plan.
Close
What we take on

Consumer

Household and intercept CAPI

Usage and attitude, brand health, concept and pack tests, and shopper intercepts in metros, district towns and villages.

  • Socio-economic classification
  • Town-class quotas
  • Central location support
Survey 3/6 · AmenitiesOffline
How is drinking water in your area?
  • Comes regularly
  • Comes sometimes
  • Rarely / never
  • Don't know
✓ Section saved on phone · autosave
BackNext
B2B and trade

Retailer, distributor and professional interviews

Kirana owners, chemists, mechanics, farmers and small business owners, recruited in person where phone lists do not exist.

  • Trade census support
  • Outlet GPS on every interview
  • Recruitment screeners
Survey 5/6 · Photo
Photo of a public issue
Camera · no faces
5 MB → 210 KB · with location/time
SkipTake photo
Audits

Mystery shopping and retail audits

Scenario visits and shelf audits under your brand's methodology, with evidence your client can inspect.

  • Photo and GPS evidence
  • Scenario compliance checks
  • Outlet-level scoring export
Location evidence
Survey #BS-0412
  • In areaInside approx. boundary
  • Accuracy±12 m
  • Time09:42 · fresh fix
  • Mock GPSNot detected
  • Interview length11 min
Added to accepted count
Software

Survey app for Market Research Agencies with their own teams

If you already have field staff in some states, use the same Android app and panel on a seat basis and let us cover the states where you do not.

  • Seat-based access
  • One dataset across teams
  • Role-based access for your staff
Retail audit · Wave 3 · 1,200 outletsUpdated 12s ago · sample
3,000
Target outlets
2,184
Visited
1,962
Audited
1,871
Accepted
Daily accepted auditsLast 12 days

Our position on subcontracted fieldwork

What you get

Before

What agencies often receive

Common pain points

  • Quota updates only on request
  • Paper or unverified interviews
  • Back-checks claimed but not documented
  • Data file with unlabelled variables
With Bharat Survey

What Bharat Survey delivers

Written into the proposal

  • Daily quota achievement by cell
  • GPS, time and duration on every CAPI record
  • Back-check log with outcomes
  • Labelled data and a field quality note
Standards

We sign your NDA before the brief, do not contact your end client, and do not reuse your questionnaire or data. The Market Research Society of India has adopted the ICC/ESOMAR International Code, effective in India from April 2026, which covers duty of care, data minimisation and transparency with respondents. We work to those principles and to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 for any personal data in the study.

What we do not claim

We do not run an owned online consumer panel, and we will not present online sample as face-to-face interviews. If a quota is unachievable in the time given, we say so and propose options rather than filling it quietly.

Delivery formats

  • CSV and Excel
  • SPSS-labelled files
  • Verbatims sheet
  • Back-check log
  • Interview metadata: GPS, time, duration

Not the right fit if

  • Large online panel sample at very low cost
  • CATI with predictive dialling at call-centre scale
  • Syndicated or benchmark databases
  • Studies needing overseas fieldwork

A good fit if

  • Face-to-face CAPI across many Indian states
  • Rural and small-town fieldwork
  • Retail and trade interviews with outlet evidence
  • Audits your client may want to inspect
FAQ

Straight answers to the questions people ask most about this topic.

Will you contact our end client directly?

No. All communication runs through your team unless you ask otherwise. Our name does not appear to respondents as the research sponsor unless your study design requires it, and deliverables go to you in your formats, ready to be passed on under your brand.

How are back-checks done and reported?

A share of completed interviews, agreed in the proposal, is re-contacted by supervisors who did not conduct them. They confirm the interview happened and re-ask a few key questions. Outcomes are logged per interview ID and delivered with the data.

Can you work with our questionnaire and scripting platform?

Usually we program your questionnaire in our app so GPS, time and duration are captured on every record. If your contract requires your own platform, we can discuss it, but we will state which verification fields we then cannot guarantee.

How do you price subcontracted fieldwork?

Per completed interview or per audit, based on incidence, length, geography, language and quality controls. Pricing is on quotation after we review the RFQ, with any assumptions listed so changes in incidence are handled transparently.

शाम के समय कस्बे का हवाई दृश्य
India Nationwide, Hindi-first

Send the questionnaire draft, quotas and dates. We will reply with feasibility and a cost per complete.