Specifications include, but are not limited to: 4.1.1 Survey of West Virginia Residents’ Attitudes About Black Bears: 4.1.1.1 Vendor must develop, administer, analyze and provide the Agency with a survey that identifies and quantitatively assesses: 4.1.1.2 Resident attitudes and opinions towards black bear populations. ; 4.1.1.3 Regional differences in opinions towards black bear populations.; 4.1.1.4 Levels of tolerance for black bear populations at the regional level.; 4.1.1.5 The level of black bear damage survey respondents have experienced (if any).; 4.1.2 Survey Structure and Design: 4.1.2.1 The structure of the survey must incorporate survey modules that will be administered to different counties of the state, identified from the larger population of West Virginia residents in Table 1.; 4.1.2.2 The vendor will design the specific survey questions by slightly modifying the questions listed in Appendix 1 and adding two (2) questions to assess bear damage.; 4.1.2.3 The survey instrument will be designed to limit the length of a telephone interview to no more than five (5) minutes.; 4.1.2.4 The vendor will pretest the survey instrument before submitting it to WVDNR for final approval.; 4.1.2.5 The vendor must coordinate with and receive approval from the Agency before the survey design is considered complete.; 4.1.3 Survey Sample Size and Administration: 4.1.3.1 The vendor will enter the tested and approved survey instrument into a computer assisted telephone interview (CATI) system to be supplied by the vendor.; 4.1.3.2 The CATI must be used by human interviewers to directly enter responses. Answers will not be recorded on paper with a pen or pencil.; 4.1.3.3 The CATI system supplied by the vendor must be able to automatically skip, code and/or substitute phrases in the survey based upon previous responses to ensure that the correct questions are asked among subpopulations and to protect the integrity of the data collection by ensuring that the correct questions are asked quickly to the interviewees.; 4.1.3.4 The vendor shall be responsible for administering the approved survey instrument utilizing the vendor’s CATI system.; 4.1.3.5 Administration of the survey instrument will continue until at least 120 telephone interviews have been completed in each region (Table 1) for each question asked for a minimum total of 2,400 Completed surveys.; 4.1.4 Survey Analysis and Reporting: 4.1.4.1 The vendor will be responsible for the analysis of the survey results.; 4.1.4.2 The vendor will create bar graphs to correspond with each question for easy review and visual display of all survey data.; 4.1.4.3 Results should identify the statistical significance of differences between the regions, where applicable.; 4.1.4.4 The vendor will be required to run crosstabulations to examine how each variable relates to every other variable in the survey (all of the questions in the survey are compared to all of the other questions in the survey, including level of degree), as well as a statistical z-score test to determine which variables are positively or negatively related.; 4.1.4.5 The statistically significant variables must be presented in a table displaying the variables in order by the strength of the correlation (sorted by ascending strength), as shown in the example in Table 2. only significant z-scores, accompanied by notation indicating one (1) of the three (3) levels of significance, should be displayed (p <0.05, p < 0.01, p <0.001).
