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The voters between left and right

9 out of 10 voters can position themselves on a left / right semantic differential scale. Some 30% choose for the center position. The scale-positions largely explain party-choice in elections as well as perceptions of political entities such as...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Jan Stapel

Company: NIPO

June 15, 1980

Voting behaviour

This paper describes an attempt to answer a different question, which can be simply expressed as ’How do electors decide how to vote?'. It is hoped that the work described below goes some way towards describing the attitude structure underlying...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1966

Authors: Crossley Thornton, John Clemens

September 1, 1966

Diminishing political participation

Statistics show that political participation in Switzerland, as in many other Western countries, is constantly decreasing. A first analysis has shown, that certain segments of the population are much less participating in polls than others,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Social Change Analysis As A Tool For Strategic Planning And Decision Making

Author: Werner Wyss

Company: SCOPE Qualitative Research AG

June 18, 1980

The pollsters' survival kit in the world of Trump

We are now less than 100 days before U.S. voters go to the polls to decide whether to stick with Donald Trump for four more years or make a change and elect Joe Biden. In this webinar, five North American pollsters will share their views on where the...

Catalogue: Webinars 2020

Authors: Kathy Frankovic, Jean-Marc Leger, Clifford Alexander Young, Melissa Hermann, Chintan Turakhia, Jennifer Agiesta, Frank Graves

August 20, 2020

The democracy of opinion polls

Observation of the behaviour, attitudes and opinions, among other things, of a population can be done to achieve many objectives. Much of such studies belong to the field of market research, and much to social research. Opinion polling is included in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Norman L. Webb

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1980

The use of computer simulations in forward planning

This paper describes how a set of simulation programmes, grouped under the acronym WANDA, can be used to increase the contribution of sample survey data to forward planning. The problem taken as an example is the construction of a model of voting...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1973: The Application Of Market And Social Research For More Efficient Planning

Author: John Clemens

September 1, 1973

Classifying undecided voters in pre-election surveys

Due to the potential impact and significance of the undecideds and the widespread use of telephone surveys, it became imperative that an improved technique be developed which would result in a reliable forecast of the likely voting patterns of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Authors: Frederick Wiseman, I. Fenwick, J. W. Becker, J. Heiman

June 15, 1982

The pollsters' survival kit for election night...and the days after

With only a few weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election, Americans are facing the potential for a long and protracted period of uncertainty about the outcome.  Will Donald Trump be elected for four more years or will the American...

Catalogue: Webinars 2020

Authors: Kathy Frankovic, Clifford Alexander Young, Jean-Marc Leger, Joe Lenski, Deborah Mattinson

October 12, 2020

Survey on opinion, attitude and voting intention during the 1979 British general election campaign

In the weeks just prior to the British general election of May 1979 Research Services Ltd. conducted a series of four surveys for a London Sunday newspaper, the Observer. In some ways, there was nothing unusual about the four surveys. They were of a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Authors: Michael Warren, Anthony King

June 15, 1980