Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

Any administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

• Preparing and presenting summaries and analyses of survey data, including tables, graphs, and fact sheets for describing survey techniques and results.
• Consulting with clients for identifying survey needs and specific requirements, such as special samples.
• Analyzing data from surveys, old records, or case studies, using statistical software.
• Reviewing, classifying, and recording survey data in preparation for computer analysis.
• Conducting researching to gathering information about survey topics.
• Conducting surveys and collecting data, using methods such as interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, market analysis surveys, public opinion polls, literature reviews, and file reviews.
• Collaborating with other researchers in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of surveys.
• Directing and reviewing the working of staff members, including survey assistance staff and interviewers who are gathering survey data.