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Universities and Colleges Using Gallup Analytics The institutions listed below provide students, faculty and staff with access to the Gallup Analytics portal through the institution's library. What's Inside. About Gallup Analytics Gallup Analytics is a subscription-based portal that houses more than a decade of international data from more than countries and areas and nearly a century of U.

Gallup Analytics subscribers can perform detailed searches on any of the hundreds of U. Not on the list? No problem. Comments Optional. Complete trend data are always available to view and export in the following charts:. Read more about Gallup's economic measures. View our economic release schedule. Results are based on telephone interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking Jan. Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking.

Each sample includes a minimum quota of cellphone respondents and landline respondents per 1, national adults, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents by region.

Landline telephone numbers are chosen at random among listed telephone numbers. Cellphone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.

All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls. For more details on Gallup's polling methodology, visit www. He did more than that. He also showed why the Digest 's flawed methods predicted Landon would win.

In the wake of that, the Digest folded up, and Gallup became America's oracle. Then, in , Gallup blew the Truman-Dewey prediction. His mistake was to quit polling two weeks before the election with fourteen percent of the electorate still undecided. After that humiliation, Gallup went back to analyze his error.

He emerged with the maxim, "Undecided voters side with the incumbent. Unlike the Literary Digest , Gallup bounced back, and his polls flourish today. Meanwhile, every trailing politician since has promised to do what Truman did, but few actually have.

And yet Gallup's great gaffe was a fine legacy. It reminded us that the best oracle cannot be trusted absolutely. The stars do not control our lives, and it is never completely over -- until it's over. I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.