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Polls and Surveys: Understanding What they Tell Us

ISBN: 978-1-555-42098-7

August 1988

Jossey-Bass

272 pages

Description
Explains how polls are conducted, describes the causes of polling errors, and discusses how polls are used and interpreted.
About the Author

NORMAN M. BRADBURN is senior vice president for National Opinion Research. He is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service professor in the department of psychology and the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.

SEYMOUR SUDMAN is a Walter H. Stellner Distinguished Professor of Marketing and deputy director and research professor at the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of seventeen books including Asking Questions (Jossey-Bass, 1982) which he wrote with Norman M. Bradburn.