Real-time, which means daily

Every StakeholderWatch study collects a fresh sample every day of the year, at the same rate, with the same instrument. We call this real-time research and we mean it literally: a change in what people believe or intend will most likely begin to appear in the data on the day it happens. Structural breaks will confirm changes and are reported once they have been confirmed by subsequent observations.

Why daily and not weekly or monthly

Daily collection provides a detailed view of when stakeholder judgments change and how those changes relate to events. It also supplies fresh observations for rolling estimates. This supports the analysis of timing, persistence and recovery. Daily frequency alone does not establish causality: causal interpretation depends on the research design and the assumptions behind the model.

What it looks like on the dashboard

The estimation window is a trailing quarter by default; a year, 180 days, a month or the last 300 completes can be selected. Whatever the window, the model behind the dashboard is re-estimated every evening on the completes inside it. A structural break is reported with its estimated date and the average before and after, and is confirmed by further readings outside the old range before it is shown. The playhead on the timeline lets a user set the dashboard to any past date and read the model as it stood that evening.

Since when

StakeholderWatch has collected daily data for its clients since 2013, several of them continuously since 2015.