Tag: Mobile Phones

Kate Harris has pointed out to me that CDC  just released a new report on the prevalence of wireless only households in the US, and this time they are providing state level estimates.  The variation across states is dramatic to say the least.  Oklahoma is estimated to have a whopping 26.2 percent of its households…

I’m sure you’ve noticed that 3 weeks have elapsed and I’m only day 2. Well, a few things intervened. Though I’d sum up the rest of the conference – which ran the gamut from strong presentations to a fascinating but somewhat tangential soliloquy on response rates – in very simple terms. What did I learn…

Reg has kindly allowed me to act as a guest blogger. I’m in London at the (first?) Mobile Research Conference, put together by Global Park. About 75 people in attendance, mostly suppliers and academics. Today was the first day and we had 6 sessions ranging from broad keynotes to case studies of specific research projects…

You have to love the hype. Or maybe not. The title of this post is taken from an email I got this morning from a company in the UK that, you guessed it, wants to do surveys on Web-enabled phones for us. It goes on to say, ” According to a November report by the…

Pew has just released a new study that confirms some of our own experience on the cost of interviewing respondents on cell phones.  Overall the report is about the impact of including cell phones in pre-election polls during the last presidential cycle, but at the end of the report they go into some "practical considerations"…

The title of this post is courtesy of Alex Gage , one of our former partners and now a successful political consultant. I was reminded of it when I saw a piece by Howard Finemen on the Newsweek site in which he takes a shot at parsing the current polls of the presidential race. OK,…

A report from AAPOR filed by Dan Zahs. No weather reports here as I was on cultural duty. In New Orleans, due to their French heritage, French toast is known as pain perdu–"those French, they have a different word for everything "(S. Martin, 1977). The cell phone only (CPO) and the cell phone mostly estimates,…

A report form AAPOR filed by Collen Carlin. Another cloudy, rainy day here at AAPOR in New Orleans and another day of cell phone discussions to attend.    Yesterday we heard further evidence that the cell phone only population is growing and today there was information on the changes to this population and ways to…

A report from AAPOR filed by Colleen Carlin: At 10 am this morning in the cloudy city of New Orleans a packed crowd of survey enthusiasts gathered in a small room, all waiting to hear ‘the number’.  ‘The number’ refers to the estimate put out twice a year by Stephen Blumburg and associates from the…