The Pros and Cons of Political Polling Methods

Polling remains essential to any democracy, but practitioners need to ensure that the views of more voters are accurately represented. This includes finding new ways to reach habitual non- responders and understand their views, developing innovative techniques to address changing communication habits, and finding methods to mitigate the impact of social desirability bias.

Making Live Phone Polling Cost-Effective Again

CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing) is a time-tested approach to conducting surveys by phone. Live phone polling consistently delivers high completion rates on surveys, more accurate and representative data, and can be just as cost-effective as other methods.

The Advantages of Live Phone Polling

Live phone polling, once the gold standard for polling, has dramatically declined in use with just 10% of pollsters now relying on this method. This change has largely been driven by rising costs, low response rates – both of which can be fixed! – and the rise of online polling.

Why CATI remains the superior way to collect data

Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing or CATI is a survey administered by an interviewer over the telephone. The interviewer has the questionnaire on their computer where they can input the responses which can be analysed later.