Today we are releasing the first set of results from a pilot of a new project of Survey 160: a recurring tracking poll. These polls will track presidential approval and generic house ballot, among oth...

Can computer programs supplant public opinion data collection? That is the promise of “synthetic respondents” or “silicon samples.” We are not so sure. The dream of replacing human survey respondents...

An increasingly common way to use text messaging for surveys is not SMS (short message service) but MMS (multimedia message service). Some believe that MMS allows survey firms to share an image like a...

Today we want to share some research, presented at last year’s AAPOR conference, on when to stop fielding. The persistence and asynchronous nature of text message communication makes this a compound ...

Operationally it is useful to know if the time of delivery of a text message has any impact on the survey. At Survey 160, we field text message surveys somewhat differently from others, asking for spe...