List of polling organizations

This is a list of notable polling organizations by country. All the major television networks, alone or in conjunction with the largest newspapers or magazines, in virtually every country with elections, operate their own versions of polling operations, in collaboration or independently through various applications.

Several organizations try to monitor the behavior of polling firms and the use of polling and statistical data, including the Pew Research Center and, in Canada, the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy.[1]

Australia

Brazil
  • IBOPE (Instituto Brasileiro de Opinião Pública e Estatística) which acronym has become the Brazilian household word for TV audience rating and a slang word that indicates that a meeting or similar function had significant attendance.

Canada

France

Germany

Iran

Italy

New Zealand

Nigeria
  • NOI-Gallup poll
  • NOIPolls
  • Africa Polling Institute

Philippines

Ukraine
  • Razumkov Centre A policy think tank also widely published throughout Ukraine[3]
  • Research & Branding Group, widely published throughout Ukraine and Internationally. Works include exit polls and regular surveys of the public's political opinions[4][5]

United Kingdom
George Gallup, pioneer of survey sampling techniques

United States

Statistician Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight maintains a list of pollsters who conduct surveys in U.S. political elections, and assigns each pollster a rating based on its methodology and historical accuracy.[6] Silver also lists the number of polls analyzed for each pollster.[6]

References
  1. Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy
  2. Alert. Journalist Abdollah Nouri released but another journalist arrested
  3. (in Ukrainian) Думка громадян України про підсумки 2008 р. (опитування) Archived 2012-09-13 at Archive.today, Razumkov Centre (December 26, 2008)
  4. "Research&Branding Group Poll: 26% Of Ukrainians Prepared To Support Yanukovych For President". The FINANCIAL website. August 19, 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
  5. Poll: "CHANGE OF ELECTORAL SITUATION IN UKRAINE - June 2009", Research & Branding Group (June, 2009)
  6. Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight's Pollster Ratings, FiveThirtyEight (last accessed October 6, 2016).


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