Online opt-in polls can produce misleading results, especially for young people and Hispanic adults
We examine how an opt-in poll may have unintentionally misled the public about the sensitive issue of Holocaust denial among young Americans.
We examine how an opt-in poll may have unintentionally misled the public about the sensitive issue of Holocaust denial among young Americans.
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Respondents who take a Pew Research Center survey on a cellphone are currently offered reimbursement for their cellphone minutes for completing the survey. But is it still necessary in the age of unlimited talk and text?
With so many respondents taking Web surveys on smartphones, creating surveys with smartphone respondents in mind is critical.
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In early 2014, Pew Research Center set out to build a probability-based panel โ the American Trends Panel โ to supplement our traditional method of data collection in the U.S. โ the random digit dial (RDD) telephone survey. Here’s how we built and managed the panel, and what we learned from it in 2014.
While survey research in the United States is a year-round undertaking, the publicโs focus on polling is never more intense than during the run-up to a presidential election.
Pew Research Centerโs American Trends Panel (ATP) is now the Centerโs principal source of data for U.S. public opinion research.
A new telephone survey experiment finds that an opinion poll drawn from a commercial voter file produces results similar to those from a sample based on random-digit dialing.
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