Few surveys are truly considered anonymous. Even though a participant is not being asked for their name in the survey, other pieces of information (IP address, email address, zipcode, etc) and/or ...

For many household surveys in the United States, response rates have been steadily declining for at least the past two decades. A similar decline in survey response can be observed in all wealthy ...

This Pew Research Center report examines whether AI-generated survey data can accurately duplicate the results of high-quality public opinion polls. We conducted this methodological experiment to ...

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some ...

As 2SLGBTQIA+ people are increasingly under threat in Canada, and facing escalating dangers from the Donald Trump administration in the United States, more research is urgently needed to understand ...

A researcher has created a chatbot that is indistinguishable from human participants in online surveys. Some researchers fear that a workhorse of social science is now under threat. A tool that has ...

Consumer Reports fielded its first survey in 1940—a nine-question print survey of members. Since then, this member survey has grown into a large multi-section quarterly omnibus that produces the data ...

Survey researchers design or conduct surveys and analyze survey data. Many groups use surveys to collect factual data, such as employment and salary information, or to ask questions that help them ...

"It is possible that these declines in response rates have forced a tipping point or paradigm shift that de-emphasizes the traditional random sampling-generalization nexus.” –Stedman et al. (2019). A ...

1-2. The public favors most sensible gun policies, policies the U.S. does not have We analyzed surveys of the American public over time. Household gun ownership levels have been decreasing in the ...

This report documents the rich set of extant findings about the causes, consequences, and remedies for the general decline in survey response throughout the developed world. This decline represents a ...