Allan L. McCutcheon (1950-2016)
Allan L. McCutcheon, Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Survey Research and Methodology at the University […]
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Upcoming WAPOR Conferences
So many great things are happening in WAPOR! We have a number of interesting conferences […]
Read moreWAPOR 2016 Annual Conference Highlights
The 69th WAPOR annual conference is coming up fast. This year promises to be another […]
Read moreWAPOR Member Survey Due April 29th
All WAPOR members in 2015 and/or 2016 have been invited to take part in the […]
Read more7th WAPOR Latin American Conference
7th WAPOR Latin American Congress
“New Forms of Political Participation and Quality of Democracy in Latin […]
Syria Peace Polls
Colin Irwin, Politics, University of Liverpool
http://www.peacepolls.org
In the context of the on-going war in Syria I […]
Tom Smith Honored with Inaugural Norman Bradburn Career Achievement Award
Tom W. Smith is the first recipient of NORC at the University of Chicago’s newly […]
Read moreWAPOR 2015 Elections
The WAPOR elections for 2015 have ended and the official results were announced in mid-November. […]
Read moreFormer WAPOR President is Ambassador to U.S.
The first WAPOR event I ever attended was in Mexico City in 1990. Hosted at El Colegio de México, the conference brought international public opinion researchers to discuss opinion polls in a setting that featured an emerging polling profession in a rapidly changing country. The organizer, Miguel Basáñez, was one of the publicly recognized pollsters and, as such, he was a central part of the early education and controversy around survey methodologies and the public role of opinion polls in Mexico.
Read moreStatement on Interviewers Lynched in Ajalpan Mexico
Today WAPOR issued a press release about the killing of two interviewers at the hands of a mob in Ajalpan (Puebla), Mexico, on October 19.
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