AAPOR Highlights

ATTENTION AAPOR MEMBERS
AAPOR Executive Council has been developing a Strategic Plan and inviting member feedback by August 23, 2010 before the plan is formally adopted at the September Council meeting.  Read more.

NEW - AAPOR Events Calendar
The AAPOR Events Calendar is easily-accessible, open for public viewing and offers all of the elements of a typical events calendar plus the enhanced feature of incorporating important updates and announcements. Visit the calendar today.

AAPOR Transparency Initiative Update
Learn how you can get involved in the initiative and see who is already supporting it. Read more.

AAPOR Revises the Code
With critical challenges facing the practice of survey research, the AAPOR announced an expansion and strengthening of its Code of Professional Ethics and Practices. View the revised Code and the rationale for the revision.

AAPOR News - Spring 2010 Now Available
View the current issue here or download the PDF.

We mourn the passing of Jim Beniger, who went from AAPOR Student Paper Award winner in 1975 to president of our association two decades later. Jim also shepherded AAPOR into the digital era as founding administrator of the AAPORNET e-mail discussion list in 1994. Read more.

AAPOR Announces 2010 Election Results -- Thank you to all those who participated in the election and congratulations to the elected candidates.

Online Panel Task Force Report --Revised -- AAPOR Executive Council charged the Online Panel Task Force with reviewing the current empirical findings related to online panels used for data collection and developing recommendations for AAPOR members. Read the full report.

AAPOR objects to the Civic Council’s recent fundraising efforts under the guise of research.President Peter Miller sent the Civic Council the following letter in response. Click here for the entire story. (02/08/10)

AAPOR responds to the "2010 Congressional District Census" fundraising mailing of the Republican National Committee (RNC). (01/25/10) Read more.

The American Association for Public Opinion Research extends sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Dale W. Kulp, founder and CEO of the Marketing Systems Group, who passed away on December 21, 2009. 

Access your  Fall 2009 issue of AAPOR News and read about the new  Transparency Initiative here (11/19/2009)

NEW - 6th Edition of Standard Definitions (10/20/2009)
The update includes changes in U.S. postal codes, discusses mix-mode surveys and more.
Also, there is a revised and expanded version of the report on estimating eligibility rates.
These two new documents can be found here: http://www.aapor.org/Standard_Definitions1.htm


AAPOR Raises Objections to Actions by Atlanta-Based Strategic Vision LLC (9/23/2009)
The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) found that Strategic Vision LLC, an Atlanta-based company, repeatedly refused to release essential facts about polls it published prior to the 2008 presidential primaries in New Hampshire and Wisconsin. Read the full release.

Bob Groves sworn in as U.S. Census Director     

See video of swearing-in ceremony and Census Bureau release (7/22/2009). Groves was AAPOR's president 1995-96 and has won several honors from the organization, including the AAPOR Award in 2001. In April AAPOR's "Three Presidents" wrote a letter of support for his nomination.

Updated Standards & Ethics section (6/15/2009):
New disclosure checklist and example disclosure form
Revised procedures for handling Ethics Code violations
Information about interviewer falsification cases

• Is survey research covered by Do Not Call rules?
• Do response rates matter?
• What is a random sample?
• What is the margin of sampling error?
• Why do election polls vary? (PDF)
• Election polling resources
• What is a "push" poll?
• Can leaked polls be trusted?

NEW - AAPOR Job Bank
Need to fill or find a job? It's easy with the new online AAPOR Job Bank. Click on the Job Bank icon and begin managing your employment needs today.

SAVE THE DATE!
66th Annual Conference
May 12-15, 2011
Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
Phoenix, Arizona

AAPOR Responds to SB1070
Letter From the President
Letter From the Conference Chair

65th Annual Conference 
AAPOR held its 65th Annual Conference
May 13 - 16, 2010 in downtown Chicago.

Download the presentation abstracts and
the Final Program for full conference details.

Public Issue: Volume 73, Number 5 - Special Issue on the 2008 Election (Free to the public)