Posts Tagged: methodology


3
Feb 10

Answer Key to the Republican Purity Test

Wow.  Just wow.  Data and analysis.  Here is the survey’s methodology:

The Daily Kos Republican Poll was conducted by Research 2000 from January 20 through January 31, 2010. A total of 2003 self identified Republicans were interviewed nationally by telephone. Those interviewed were selected by the random variation of the last four digits of telephone numbers, nationally.

The margin for error, according to standards customarily used by statisticians, is no more than plus or minus 2% percentage points. This means that there is a 95 percent probability that the “true” figure would fall within that range if the entire self identified Republican population were sampled. The margin for error is higher for any demographic subgroup, such as for gender or region.


15
Jan 10

Daily Links for January 12th through January 15th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).



11
May 09

Employment, Political, and Economic Survey Methodology?

I wonder how many of the various governmental surveys (such as employment) or political surveys are dependent on phones as point of contact, and what, if any adjustments are made for no-landlines-slash-cell-phone only respondents?  If some percentage of the entire population is cell phone only, how does that skew the surveys results?  Some portion of those make the decision to drop their landline logically (that it is a redundant and unnecessary cost) or out of necessity (to reduce their monthly bills).  How do those two groups differ?  Are they likely to be conservative or liberal?  Are the likely to be employed, unemployed, or underemployed?  There’s some more data here at Pew Research.

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