Released: April 2, 2011

Contact:
Dr. Robin Dorff, IOPL Executive Director (336) 333-9010
Dr. Walt De Vries, Executive Director Emeritus (910) 256-2316
Ms. Sue Bulluck (910) 791-2672

Institute of Political Leadership
UNC-Greensboro
c/o Department of Political Science
P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, North Carolina 27402-6170

IOPL Spring 2011 Poll - Survey Methodology

The questionnaire was designed by the Fellows of the Institute (Spring, 2011 Class) with the assistance of Dr. Robert H. “Robin” Dorff, IOPL Executive Director, Sue Bulluck of IOR&C, and Dr. Walter DeVries of DeVries & Associates, Inc. and Executive Director Emeritus of IOPL.

The random sample was drawn of New Hanover County registered voters by Sue Bulluck of IOR&C/Am Ltd. and AOS Research, Inc. of Wilmington, North Carolina.  AOS Research, Inc., represented by President, Peter Higgins and VP Operations, Christine Strahley, did the questionnaire programming and provided CATI (computer assisted telephone interview) instructions to the Fellows.  Laurie Grubb, Director of Data Processing for AOS, generated the cross-tabulations and tables used in the analysis. It should be noted that New Hanover County is a “bellwether” county (along with about 10 other North Carolina counties) for statewide voting, i.e., as New Hanover County votes, so votes the state.

After training, the Fellows of the Institute completed 313 interviews with New Hanover County registered voters.  The telephone interviews were conducted on Friday evening, April 1, 2011 from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m.

The data were collated by AOS Research, Inc. who computer processed the data and prepared the frequency and cross-tab tables using CFMC.  The analysis and Executive Summary were written by Dr. Walter DeVries and Sue Bulluck.

For over 30 years, New Hanover County has been a “bellwether” county (along with 10 other counties) for statewide voting in North Carolina; that is, as New Hanover County votes, so votes the state. This survey has a +/-5.0% margin of error at a 95 percent level of confidence.  Sub-samples have higher margins of error.

FULL 2011 IOPL-AOS POLL REPORT

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