Perils of Polling in Election ’08
New Tricks for Old — and New — Dogs: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Communications Research
Understanding Likely Voters
Calling Cell Phones In ’08 Pre-Election Polls
Bush and Public Opinion
Overview: Bush and Public Opinion As George W. Bush prepares to leave the White House, the United States is in many ways dramatically different from when he took the oath of office in 2001. His first few months as president were largely unremarkable, despite the contentious 2000 election. But the horrific terror attacks of Sept. […]
What a Year! People-Press Poll Reports in 2008
Poll Power
Cell Phones and the 2008 Vote: An Update
Cell Phones and the 2008 Vote: An Update
Research Roundup: Latest Findings on Cell Phones and Polling
A ’Brute Force’ Estimation of the Residence Rate for Undetermined Telephone Numbers in an RDD Survey
The Impact Of “Cell-Onlys” On Public Opinion Polling
Summary of Findings The proportion of Americans who rely solely on a cell phone for their telephone service continues to grow, as does the share who still have a landline phone but do most of their calling on their cell phone. With these changes, there is an increased concern that polls conducted only on landline […]
Getting It Wrong
The failure of the New Hampshire pre-election surveys to mirror the outcome of the Democratic race is one of the most significant miscues in modern polling history. All the published polls, including those that surveyed through Monday, had Sen. Barack Obama comfortably ahead with an average margin of more than 8 percent. These same polls […]
“Frequently Asked Questions” about Pew’s Muslim American Survey
How Serious Is Polling’s Cell-Only Problem?
According to government statistics released last month, nearly 13% of U.S. households cannot now be reached by the typical telephone survey because they have only a cell phone and no landline telephone, and the share of Americans who are cell-only is increasing rapidly. To monitor this problem, the Pew Research Center conducted four studies in […]
