Polling Organizations
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
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
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 Iran, some notable polling organisations include:
- Ayandeh - closed in 2002 and director Abbas Abdi arrested
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 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
- Razumkov Centre A policy think tank also widely published throughout Ukraine
- SOCIS (Socis center for social and political studies)
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:
- 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
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.
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