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The accuracy of pre-election polling of German general elections
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Abstract "Pre-election polls are the most prominent type of surveys. As with any other survey, estimates
are only of interest if they do not deviate significantly from the true state of nature. Even though pre-election polls in Germany as well as in other countries repeatedly show noticeably inaccurate resu... mehr
"Pre-election polls are the most prominent type of surveys. As with any other survey, estimates
are only of interest if they do not deviate significantly from the true state of nature. Even though pre-election polls in Germany as well as in other countries repeatedly show noticeably inaccurate results, their failure appears to be quickly forgotten. No comparison considering all available German data on actual election results and the confidence intervals based on pre-election polls has been published. In the study reported
here only 69% of confidence intervals covered the election result, whereas statistically 95% would have to be expected. German pre-election polls even just a month ahead are therefore much less accurate than most introductory statistical textbooks would suggest." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wahlforschung; Prognose; Wahlverhalten; Schätzung; öffentliche Meinung; Umfrageforschung; Stichprobenfehler; Bundestagswahl; Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
Pre-Election-Polls; empirical coverage; confidence intervals for binomial data; design effects; Sonntagsfrage
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2014
Seitenangabe
S. 5-24
Zeitschriftentitel
Methods, data, analyses : a journal for quantitative methods and survey methodology (mda), 8 (2014) 1
ISSN
2190-4936
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)