List of polling organizations

This is a list of polling organizations by country.

In Australia the most notable companies are:

• Newspoll - published in News Limited's The Australian newspaper
• Roy Morgan Research - published in the Crikey email reporting service
• Galaxy Polling - published in News Limited's tabloid papers
• AC Nielsen Polling - published in Fairfax newspapers
• Ipsos and I-View
• JWS Research - published in the AFR newspaper

In Colombia the most notable companies are:

• Ipsos-Napoleon Franco
• Centro Nacional de Consultoria
• Gallup Colombia Limitada
• IBOPE Colombia

In Brazil the most notable companies are:

• IBOPE (Instituto Brasileiro de Opinião Pública e Estatística) which acronym has become the Brazilian household word for TV audience rating and a slang word that indicates that a meeting or similar function had significant attendance.
• Datafolha

In Canada the most notable companies are:

• Angus Reid Strategies
• EKOS Research Associates
• Environics Research Group
• Harris/Decima
• Ipsos-Reid
• Léger Marketing
• Nanos Research

In Denmark the most notable companies are:

• Epinion A/S

In Egypt, the most notable polling organization is

• Opinion Poll Center^[1]
• The Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera) ^[2]
• GISR Institution for Survey Research ^[3]

In France, the most notable polling organization are:

• TNS Sofres
• Ipsos
• Harris Interactive
• BVA
• Ifop
• OpinionWay
• ViaVoice
• CSA
• LH2

In Germany, notable polling organizations are

• Allensbach Institute
• Forsa institute
• Infratest dimap
• TNS Emnid

In Jordan the dominant organization is:

• Knowledge World Center for Polls

In India,the most notable polling organization is:

• Today's Chanakya run by RNB Research

In Iran, some notable polling organisations include:

• ISPA -Iranian student polling agency. The site of Ispa is www.ispa.ir Iranian Student Polling Agency
• Ayandeh - closed in 2002 and director Abbas Abdi arrested^[4]

In Ireland, some notable polling organisations include:

• IPSOS-MRBI
• RedC
• Behaviour & Attitudes

In New Zealand, some notable polling organisations include:

• Colmar Brunton
• DigiPoll
• UMR Insight

In Nigeria the most notable polling organisation is:

• NOI-Gallup poll

In the Philippines the most notable pollsters are:

• Pulse Asia
• Social Weather Stations

In South Africa, some notable polling organisations include:

• Ipsos Markinor who have conducted opinion polls since 1976.
• Plus 94 Research - published in Sunday Times South Africa newspaper

In Ukraine, the most notable pollsters are:

• Research & Branding Group, widely published throughout Ukraine and Internationally. Works include exit polls and regular surveys of the public's political opinions^[5][6]
• Razumkov Centre A policy think tank also widely published throughout Ukraine^[7]
• SOCIS (Socis center for social and political studies) ^[8]

In the United Kingdom, the most notable pollsters are:

• ComRes, retained pollster for the BBC and The Independent
• Ipsos MORI (formerly MORI).
• YouGov.
• GfK NOP
• ICM
• Populus, official The Times pollster
• TNS-BMRB

In the United States, some notable companies include:

• D3 Systems, Inc.
• Gallup poll run by The Gallup Organization
• Harris Poll
• Ipsos
• National Opinion Research Center
• Nielsen ratings
• Pew Research Center
• Rasmussen Reports
• Research 2000
• YouGov.
• Zogby International

In Spain:

• Metroscopia
• Sigma 2
• TNS Demoscopia
• Opina
• Akra Delta
• Netquest
• ESEQ, Estudios sociales, políticos y de mercado
• Ipsos
• Gather Estudios

All the major television networks, alone or in conjunction with the largest newspapers or magazines, in virtually every country with elections, operate their own versions of polling operations, in collaboration or independently through various applications. One of the applications can be found on Facebook ^[9]

Several organizations try to monitor the behavior of polling firms and the use of polling and statistical data, including the Pew Research Center and, in Canada, the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy.^[10]

References

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