Promoting and maintaining opinion polling standards
Chair
Chris Lonergan
Website
australianpollingcouncil.com
The Australian Polling Council is an association of polling firms established to promote and maintain professional standards in opinion polling. Firms that join must disclose their public polls' full question wordings and preambles, sample sizes, and how responses were collected and weighted.[1]
Following the 2019 federal election, the Australian polling industry suffered major damage to its reputation because of polls' failure to predict the Coalition's victory.[2] In an attempt to revive the industry's reputation, YouGov, Essential and uComms, three major polling firms, announced in April 2020 they intended to form an industry body modelled on the British Polling Council and the National Council for Published Polls in the US.[3] By October 2020, when the APC was formally established, Ipsos, Lonergan Research, JWS Research, and Telereach joined as founding members.[4] Other firms to have since joined include 89 Degrees East, The Australia Institute, Pyxis Polling & Insights, Redbridge and SEC Newgate.[5]
Not every major Australian polling firm is an APC member. Resolve Strategic, which polls for the major newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, is a prominent absence from the council's membership. Jim Reed, its founder, has cited the need to protect trade secrets and his belief some APC members are "beyond the pale" as reasons for Resolve's decision not to join the association.[6] Roy Morgan is another polling firm whose absence has been explicitly noted.[1]
^ abBriggs, Casey (5 April 2022). "With election 2022 nearly upon us, can we actually trust the opinion polls this time?". ABC News. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^Visontay, Elias (16 May 2022). "Will Australia's opinion polls be more accurate in 2022 than at the last election?". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^Bowe, William (23 April 2020). "It's as easy as APC". The Poll Bludger. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^Ho, Kim (28 October 2020). "Australia's Leading Pollsters Come Together to Launch the Australian Polling Council". YouGov. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^"Members". Australian Polling Council. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^Goot, Murray (5 July 2021). "The Resolve poll that resolves very little". Inside Story. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
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