{"id":2243,"date":"2026-08-11T11:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T10:13:57","slug":"esra-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/2026\/08\/11\/esra-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"ESRA Statement &#8222;Reporting on Opinion Polls in the Mass Media&#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The European Survey Research Association (ESRA) has issued a statement expressing concerns over the declining methodological quality of opinion polls and the implications this has on public discourse and democratic processes. This statement is primarily directed at journalists, who play a crucial role in shaping public opinion by reporting survey results. ESRA offers practical recommendations for assessing the quality of opinion polls, emphasizing the importance of probability-based sampling, transparency in data collection modes, motivation behind polls, and meticulous questionnaire design. The Academy of Sociology is committed to high standards of quality in research data, shares ESRA&#8217;s concerns about questionable practices in some areas of public opinion research, and supports the statement.&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18148\/srm\/2026.v20i2.8974\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18148\/srm\/2026.v20i2.8974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link to the ESRA statement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-5-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-294231a46b981250ad3ea280683bf0ce wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:9px\">Image: \u00a9European Survey Research Association (ESRA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeansurveyresearch.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.europeansurveyresearch.org<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Survey Research Association (ESRA) has issued a statement expressing concerns over the declining methodological quality of opinion polls and the implications this has&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forschung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-soziologie.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}