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Opinion polling in Ireland

This paper addresses itself to the factors underlying the rapid change in the attitudes held by the Irish media toward political opinion polling. It draws on data derived from the continuous IMS Political Monitor (established in 1974). It also...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: John F. Meagher

June 15, 1980

Journalistic developments in the use of opinion polls: Panel discussion

I should like to spend a little time not talking so much about the finer statistics of "Sunday Times" polling when the "Sunday Times" is being published, but about some of the more general problems that we have had in recent years in the British...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Peter Kellner

June 15, 1980

Opinion polling viewed by a late starter

The author draw from his experience that opinion polling is part of the main-stream of market research, not a seapart methodology. The remaining sections of this paper deal with his view on both technical and non-technical problems that have arisen...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Norman L. Webb

Company: Gallup International Association

August 1, 1975

Survey research on crime, criminal law and criminal justice in the United States

Since 1965, there has been rapidly expanding utilisation of surveys of the general public for knowledge about crime, law enforcement and criminal justice in the United States. This paper presents some results of an inventory completed in 1972...

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

Author: Albert D. Biderman

September 1, 1973

Is the tree-test applicable as auxiliary mean for poll-research?

In poll-research we have increasingly to solve functions concerning the character of people. In order to do this we need suitable methods for diagnoses, but specially such methods which are applicable to our current polls, and not only to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Conference 1963

Author: Erp Ring

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1963

The "steps-and-parts" model for polling

This paper presents a methodological theory of public opinion research which we call the "steps-and-parts" model for polling. This theory is an analysis of polling, not an analysis of opinion. It deals with the researcher's role-actions in polling...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Conference 1955

Authors: Stuart Carter Dodd, Chahin Turabian

June 15, 1955