Polling and the Public

Polling and the Public
Author: Herb Asher
Publisher: CQ Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2016-07-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1483324079

Polling and the Public helps readers become savvy consumers of public opinion polls, offering solid grounding on how the media cover them, their use in campaigns and elections, and their interpretation. This trusted, brief guide by Herb Asher also provides a non-technical explanation of the methodology of polling so that students become informed participants in political discourse. Fully updated with new data and scholarship, the Ninth Edition examines recent elections and the use and misuse of polls in campaigns, and delivers new coverage of web-based and smartphone polling.

Customer Surveys for Agency Managers

Customer Surveys for Agency Managers
Author: Harry P. Hatry
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780877666721

This practical volume provides a wealth of nontechnical information and advice on planning and conducting customer surveys. It's a must for all agency managers, public or private, seeking to make their customer surveys more useful to their agencies and to make their agencies more responsive to customers. Topics include the types of information that should and should not be sought from surveys; categories of respondents; options for administering surveys and the advantages and disadvantages of each; conducting surveys in-house versus contracting; steps in the survey process; sampling strategy; sources of survey error and suggested remedies; and tradeoffs among timeliness, accuracy, and cost.

Modern Analysis of Customer Surveys

Modern Analysis of Customer Surveys
Author: Ron S. Kenett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2012-01-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0470971282

Customer survey studies deals with customers, consumers and user satisfaction from a product or service. In practice, many of the customer surveys conducted by business and industry are analyzed in a very simple way, without using models or statistical methods. Typical reports include descriptive statistics and basic graphical displays. As demonstrated in this book, integrating such basic analysis with more advanced tools, provides insights on non-obvious patterns and important relationships between the survey variables. This knowledge can significantly affect the conclusions derived from a survey. Key features: Provides an integrated, case-studies based approach to analysing customer survey data. Presents a general introduction to customer surveys, within an organization’s business cycle. Contains classical techniques with modern and non standard tools. Focuses on probabilistic techniques from the area of statistics/data analysis and covers all major recent developments. Accompanied by a supporting website containing datasets and R scripts. Customer survey specialists, quality managers and market researchers will benefit from this book as well as specialists in marketing, data mining and business intelligence fields.