Archive for May 17th, 2009

Public Opinion toward NAFTA in the United States, Canada and Mexico: Insights from the Gallup World Poll

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A commitment to continental free trade has been a major part of the trade policies of the United States, Canada and Mexico for the last 15 years – one embodied in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Public support for NAFTA and impressions of its effects have, however, remained mixed, and have varied over time. Still, attempts to examine public opinion across all three countries in the trade bloc remain few, with most studies limited to a single country. Drawing on data from the Gallup World Poll, we endeavor to remedy this situation by examining public impressions of NAFTA across all three member countries. Read more

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Recruitment of Minorities Using Address-Based Sampling (ABS): A Pilot Study

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The crisis in coverage of the landline telephone frame has reached a point where researchers are testing alternatives to (or at a minimum, complements to) traditional landline random digit dialing (RDD). Ideally, a new sampling methodology would address not only the coverage challenges posed by cell phone only households and unlisted households in zero-listed banks, but also provide a basis for developing survey designs that could address the growing nonresponse issue which also plagues traditional RDD approaches. One such approach proven to be promising and potentially cost effective involves use of address-based samples using large comprehensive databases, such as the U.S. Postal Service Delivery Sequence File (DSF). Read more

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