The Gallup Organization

Examples of The Gallup Organization in the following topics:

• The Gallup Organization

  • After Gallup's death in 1984, The Gallup Organization was sold to Selection Research, Incorporated (SRI) of Lincoln, Nebraska in 1988.
  • George Gallup founded the American Institute of Public Opinion, the precursor of The Gallup Organization, in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1935.
  • In 1958 the modern Gallup Organization was formed from a merger of several polling organizations.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • Locate the historical origins and significance of the Gallup Organization for public opinion research in the United States

• The Gallup Poll

  • The Gallup Poll is a public opinion poll that conducts surveys in 140 countries around the world.
  • George Gallup founded the American Institute of Public Opinion, the precursor to the Gallup Organization, in Princeton, New Jersey in 1935.
  • In 1958, the modern Gallup Organization was formed when George Gallup grouped all of his polling operations into one organization.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • Examine the pros and cons of the way in which the Gallup Poll is conducted

• Religion and Social Support

  • Surveys by Gallup, the National Opinion Research Center, and the Pew Organization conclude that spiritually committed people are twice as likely to report being "very happy" than the least religiously committed people.
  • These include the following:
  • The Legatum Prosperity Index reflects the research that suggests that there is a positive link between religious engagement and well-being.
  • Surveys by Gallup, the National Opinion Research Center and the Pew Organization conclude that spiritually committed people are twice as likely to report being "very happy" than the least religiously committed people.
  • An apparently happy man wears the 5 Dhyani Buddhas Crown and holds a Flower and Dorje (vajra).

• Social Correlates of Religion

  • As author Stephen Law paraphrases in his book "War For the Children's Mind," "The most theistic prosperous democracy, the U.S., is exceptional, but not in the manner Franklin predicted.
  • The United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developed democracies, sometimes spectacularly so...The view of the U.S. as a 'shining city on the hill' to the rest of the world is falsified when it comes to basic measures of societal health. " In other words, the U.S., a theistic and prosperous nation, demonstrates that religiosity doesn't necessarily correlate with creating cultures that reduce death.
  • The study suggests that religion is headed towards "extinction" in various nations where it has been on the decline: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.
  • The overall median in the dataset was $48,200.
  • Surveys by Gallup, the National Opinion Research Center and the Pew Organization conclude that spiritually committed people are twice as likely to report being "very happy" than the least religiously committed people.

• A Closer Look at the Gallup Poll

  • The Gallup Poll is an opinion poll that uses probability samples to try to accurately represent the attitudes and beliefs of a population.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup, Inc. that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • The Gallup Poll is an opinion poll that uses probability sampling.
  • In 1986, Gallup shifted most of its polling to the telephone.
  • Examine the errors that can still arise in the probability samples chosen by Gallup

• Early Public Opinion Research and Polling

  • The first known example of an opinion poll was an 1824 local straw poll by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian for the Jackson Adams race.
  • At the same time, George Gallup conducted a far smaller, but more scientifically based survey, in which he polled a demographically representative sample.
  • Gallup correctly predicted Roosevelt's landslide victory.
  • Gallup launched a subsidiary in the United Kingdom, where it almost alone correctly predicted Labour's victory in the 1945 general election.
  • Identify the historical origins of public opinion research in the United States

• Caveat Emptor and the Gallup Poll

  • Readers of polls, such as the Gallup Poll, should exercise Caveat Emptor by taking into account the poll's margin of error.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of the Gallup Company that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • Gallup Polls are often referenced in the mass media as a reliable and objective measurement of public opinion.
  • Gallup Poll results, analyses, and videos are published daily on Gallup.com in the form of data-driven news.
  • Since inception, Gallup Polls have been used to measure and track public attitudes concerning a wide range of political, social, and economic issues (including highly sensitive or controversial subjects).

• The Year the Polls Elected Dewey

  • In the 1948 presidential election, the use of quota sampling led the polls to inaccurately predict that Dewey would defeat Truman.
  • Though Truman lost all nine of the Gallup Poll's post-convention surveys, Dewey's Gallup lead dropped from 17 points in late September to 9% in mid-October to just 5 points by the end of the month, just above the poll's margin of error.
  • The Gallup, Roper, and Crossley polls all predicted a Dewey win.
  • The Crossley, Gallup, and Roper organizations all used quota sampling.
  • The table shows the results of three polls against the actual results in the 1948 presidential election.

• The Team and the Organization

• Dimensionalizing Immigration: Numbers of Immigrants around the World

  • Immigration numbers impact both the home country and the host country.
  • In 2006, the International Organization for Migration estimated the number of immigrants to be more than 200 million globally.
  • A 2012 survey that was conducted by Gallup determined that nearly 640 million adults would want to immigrate if they had the chance.
  • The darker the color, the higher the percent immigrants in the population.
  • The darkest blue indicates more than 50% of the population are immigrants.