CMS infrastructure and professional strengths include dedicated and experienced survey research teams with capabilities to undertake large-scale field surveys across the country. The field set up has time-tested procedures to assure prompt and reliable fieldwork, which is verified and validated.

Special emphasis is given to ethical and quality issues by CMS. It has constituted an Institutional Review Board (CMS-IRB), registered to the Division of Assurance and Quality Improvement in the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), USA, to give technical support to research organisations towards maintaining the ethical standards in research on human subjects. CMS is also registered to give Federal Wide Assurance (FWA) for the Protection of Human Subjects for International (Non-U.S.) Institutions.