Public Reports
Tracking Methodology
Survey Fever collects survey data for its publicly released tracking studies using a combination of methods. For each study, one third of the surveys are collected using automated dialing systems, one third utilize online methods and one third utilize live phone interviewers.
Sample for the automated and live interview calling is derived from RDD created files. Sample for the online survey portion utilizes interviewer panels.
Respondents are qualified by answering as registered voters and answering as likely or highly likely to vote in the upcoming election. Studies are conducted in English. All studies are fielded 3-4 days prior to the date they are released.
Studies are balanced by gender, age, political party, ethnicity, congressional district and other factors.
Independent and third party candidate options are included in the questionnaires, but the results are not released in the findings unless a given candidate’s support exceeds 3%. Each study consists of 700 registered voters, with a Moe of 3.7 at a 95% confidence level.