{"id":5244,"date":"2017-05-06T04:34:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T04:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2017-05-06T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T17:46:01","slug":"what-do-pollsters-do-when-theyre-not-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/?p=5244","title":{"rendered":"What do pollsters do when they\u2019re not polling?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Vancouver B.C. (5 May\u00a02017) \u2013\u00a0When pollsters aren\u2019t running polls, there\u2019s a good chance they\u2019re\u00a0geeking out. About polling.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, May 9, we will know the result of the BC Provincial Election. During this campaign\u00a0period, experimenting with an online data collection platform (see previous posts), and now IVR, Justason Market Intelligence<\/a> and zinc tank<\/a> have teamed up to offer our insights on B.C.\u2019s\u00a0general election.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Brian Singh, zinc tank\u2019s principal,\u00a0and I got on the phone to discuss why we did this, the challenge of data collection when it is increasingly difficult to get a representative sample and model a voting population, what we are seeing in different polling methods, some context for change and our (albeit tepid) prediction.<\/p>\n

Listen along to this MP3 file<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Share. Message us. Discuss.<\/p>\n

For more information contact:<\/strong><\/address>\n
Barb Justason, <\/strong>Justason Market Intelligence Inc.<\/strong>
\n+1 604 783 4165 \/ Barb@JustasonMI.com \/\u00a0<\/em>JMI.co<\/em><\/address>\n
\u00a0<\/address>\n
Brian Singh, <\/strong>zinc tank<\/strong><\/address>\n
+1 403 861 9462 \/ brian@zinc-tank.com \/ zinc-tank.com<\/address>\n
\u00a0<\/address>\n
\u2013 30 \u2013<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vancouver B.C. (5 May\u00a02017) \u2013\u00a0When pollsters aren\u2019t running polls, there\u2019s a good chance they\u2019re\u00a0geeking out. About polling. On Tuesday, May 9, we will know the result of the BC Provincial Election. During this campaign\u00a0period, experimenting with an online data collection platform (see previous posts), and now IVR, Justason Market Intelligence and zinc tank have teamed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159,322,290],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5245,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justasonmi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}