 The first mission of SSRI was to interpret the inherent problems with the National Jewish Population Survey of 2000 (NJPS).SSRI has done a Jewish Population Survey of the Greater Boston area,
the results of which were released on November 9, 2006.The Institute collects and organizes existing socio-demographic data from private, communal, and government sources and will conduct local and national studies of the character of American Jewry and Jewish organizations.