E-Polls facts & stats

Question 1

What share of people actually responded to a typical Pew Research telephone poll in 2018?

Accepted Answer

about 6%. That was down from about 9% a few years earlier, as robocalls and spam-flagging made people warier of unknown numbers.

Question 2

About how many automated "robocalls" were estimated to hit U.S. phones per month around 2018-2019?

Accepted Answer

about 3.4 billion per month. That flood of spam calls is a major reason legitimate survey calls get ignored or blocked as suspected spam.

Question 3

In that same study, about what share of completed surveys failed at least one automated fraud pre-screening check?

Accepted Answer

nearly half (about 48%). The most common failure was a low-quality open-ended text answer, followed by "yea-saying" (agreeing with everything asked).

Question 4

Of the respondents willing to share contact details, what share were successfully matched to a real voter file record?

Accepted Answer

73%. Some willing respondents still couldn't be matched, often because they simply weren't registered to vote.

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