A right track survey measures whether respondents believe their country is moving in a positive or negative direction according to a specific survey methodolog…
George Gallup founded the American Institute of Public Opinion in 1935, applying statistical sampling to national opinion measurement. The claim was counter-intuitive at…
A large-circulation magazine ran a mail poll drawing roughly 2.4 million returns and predicted the wrong winner, while a far smaller sample predicted correctly. The mail…
A well-known US polling miss in 1948 embarrassed an industry that had claimed scientific status. Post-mortems blamed quota sampling, in which interviewers chose responde…
After a 1973 European Parliament report and three pilot studies, the first official Eurobarometer survey was conducted in 1974 across the nine member states of the Europ…
Political scientist Ronald Inglehart founded the World Values Survey in 1981, extending the European Values Study globally. The first wave ran from 1981 to 1984 across m…
Gallup launched the World Poll in 2005, since conducted in more than 160 countries covering an estimated 99% of the world's adult population. Samples are probability-bas…
Confidence and institutional trust fell sharply in many affected countries after the global financial crisis. In several of them the measures did not return to pre-crisi…
The OECD published 2024 results from its second Trust Survey, fielded in late 2023 with close to 60,000 responses across 30 countries: average trust in national governme…
Ipsos continued its monthly What Worries the World programme through 2026, fielding in 30 countries among roughly 20,000 adults per wave. The 30-country average saying t…
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