Here, we address some of the most common questions we receive about the nuts and bolts of taking a U.S.-focused Pew Research Center poll.
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Table of Contents
- How do people in the U.S. take Pew Research Center surveys, anyway? 1
- How can I sign up to take one of your surveys? 1
- How exactly do you randomly select Americans to take your surveys? 1
- How is it possible that I’ve never been randomly invited to take a survey? 2
- Once invited, how do people actually take your surveys? 2
- Not everyone in the U.S. uses the internet, so how can your online surveys be nationally representative? 2
- Do your surveys include people who don’t speak English? 2
- If the same people take your surveys over and over again, doesn’t that make them different from people who don’t take the surveys, and thus make them unrepresentative of the public? 3
- How often do your respondents take a survey? 3
- Do you pay people to take your surveys? 3
- RELATED 4
- How Public Polling Has Changed in the 21st Century 4
- What 2020’s Election Poll Errors Tell Us About the Accuracy of Issue Polling 4
- A Field Guide to Polling: Election 2020 Edition 4
- Methods 101: How is polling done around the world? 4
- Methods 101: Mode effects 4
- TOPICS 4
- MOST POPULAR 4
- RESEARCH TOPICS 4
- FOLLOW US 5
