Sentences with phrase «polling companies gfk»

Maple Ridge was recognized by Reuters and other polling companies as the fifth best city in Canada to invest in, and the second best in the province.

Other recent reports and survey by consultant / polling companies further show that U.S. corporate counsel are paring down the number of outside counsel used and are consolidating their outside counsel into «hubs» which work together to provide services to the client corporation.

The two other main parties suffered heavy losses at the ballot box, but polling companies also have egg on their face after months of suggesting a Conservative majority win was virtually impossible — the very result we see this morning.

While the main polling companies don't tend to produce a wide variation in support for the Conservatives or Labour they have done for the Liberal Democrats, with YouGov on average showing the Lib Dems three points lower than ICM and MORI do (Populus produce figures somewhere inbetween the two extremes).

One source said instructions had been sent by Ashcroft to the polling companies to send invoices on the basis they were «export» orders from outside the EU, and thus not to charge VAT.

The table below provides some useful perspective, comparing the latest polls from each of Britain's polling companies with those conducted after the May elections.

The exit poll is carried out by polling companies GfK and Ipsos Mori for the BBC, ITV News and Sky News.

«We're trying to figure out how 17 different polling companies got it totally wrong,» Slaughter said.

«I've said I want to find these polling companies and I want to sue them for my stomach ulcers because of what they put me through, you know.

Actually it's more likely that Cameron's stomach ulcers came from Helicobacter Pylori than from polling companies http://t.co/gxprYzSa00

Cameron caught on camera saying wants to «find these polling companies and sue them for the stomach ulcers» we caused him over #indyref

Several polling companies included Ashcroft's polls in their election predictions, though several of the political parties disputed his findings.

So, what have polling companies done to correct the problems?

If the other polling companies are right, and the Tory lead is greater, the Tories will have a definite «mandate», measured by both votes and seats.

Parliament looks set to consider a bill that would introduce strict rules on polling companies and could even ban polls being conducted in the weeks leading up to an election.

Labour peer Lord Foulkes introduced legislation in the last parliament aimed at setting up an Ofcom style regulator for polling companies.

We're back to five polling companies this week, with the usual daily polls from YouGov and one each from Lord Ashcroft, Populus, Opinium and Ipsos Mori.

The BPC conclusions will only serve as recommendations, with the council having little power to mandate polling companies to implement them.

Using two respected polling companies, he decided to commission some research of his own.

SurveyUSA is one of the most accurate polling companies in the United States, along with Public Policy Polling.

A study by Pickup et al. (2010) explores potential explanations for the polling miss and contrast the results of various polling companies to see whether telephone or internet polls fared better and whether specific polling methodologies (such as adjusting for likelihood to vote) resulted in better predictions.

One of the major talking points has been Lord Ashcroft's recent polls of 16 Scottish constituencies, which attracted special attention because unlike the other polling companies it drilled down to constituencies rather than just voting intentions as a whole.

The polling companies showing the worst results for Labour are presuming young people will vote at roughly the same rate as in the last election.

Naturally individual polling companies conducted their own post-mortems but ours was the only inquiry able to draw on raw data from all nine members of the BPC, while still being independent of the polling industry.

No wonder politicians rely on polling companies to help their way through the murk.

Polling companies in the US have given their respondents little choice of policy options.

«This is an opportunity era» for social polling companies, Zogby says.

Coming from a background in finance and data management, Elkin was inspired by the 2012 presidential debates to start LiveDial, a polling company that distributes surveys on any topic to an unlimited audience at a moment's notice.

Well, you don't need a polling company to tell you that research funded by corporations might be less than scientifically reliable.

More stunning, the Canadian polling company Pollara found last month that 77 % of Canadians did not miss NHL hockey.

A survey by Harris, an interactive polling company, found that one in five Americans has a tattoo — and slightly more women than men have one.

An independent polling company, Levada Center, has been labelled a «foreign agent» — a term applied to foreign - funded NGOs taking part in vaguely defined «political activity.»

As acknowledged by the polling company Panelbase, «all pollsters are in pretty unchartered territory.»

Labour is also reported to have commissioned work from the polling company BMG Research and the advertising agency Krow Communications.

A few years ago, polling company YouGov asked a question that gets to the heart of the left / right economic divide.

Emnid, another polling company relying on telephone questions, found almost exactly the same numbers.

After all, the company put the SNP on 52 % 29 points ahead of Labour, as long as late October last year — well above the estimate of any other polling company at the time.

Chris Hopkins from the polling company said there had been very little change since the poll in January with the SNP continuing to «dominate the political landscape in Scotland.»

Labour's lead in YouGov polls is typically in the double digits but the polling company tends to give Ukip lower levels of support.

Her group, The Polling Company, made almost $ 2 million conducting surveys for candidates like Sen. Ted Cruz, former presidential candidate Ben Carson, and Trump during the 2016 election — double the amount than any previous campaign cycle.

Conway, Whole Foods, and The Polling Company did not respond to Business Insider's requests for comment.

A survey of parents, carried out by independent polling company ComRes and commissioned by the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has found that:

The polling company Tamedia asked 20,000 people about their voting intentions on the next referendum day (which includes 3 other issues along with basic income).

Anthony Williams, special projects director of the polling company, said legalization supporters should be worried about these results.

Notes to editors A recent survey of parents, carried out by polling company ComRes and commissioned by the NASUWT found that fewer than a third of parents (29 %) checked the league table position when choosing a school.

Did this polling company predict the correct General Election result — and then decide not to publish it?

Kyle Dropp, the director of polling company «Morning Consult», explicitly attributed this effect as a likely reason for discrepancy between polls and vote counts for Donald Trump (who's a poster child for «politically incorrect candidate» and, I'm willing to be, an inspiration for your question) in 2016 Republican Primaries in US, as discussed in my answer here.

YouGov is the third polling company to report the Tories at their lowest ebb, after Opinium and TNS BMRB.

A separate recent survey of parents, carried out by independent polling company ComRes and commissioned by the NASUWT, found that almost three quarters of parents (73 %) agreed there should be much stronger regulations over how much schools are allowed to charge for the services they provide to pupils, with over a third (36 %) of parents saying the cost of educational visits is not affordable, 33 % saying the same about school uniforms and a fifth (20 %) for the cost of equipment.

Gilbert stepped down as Tory party deputy chairman at the end of last year after taking a part - time position at Populus, the official polling company for Britain Stronger in Europe.