What does Junior Football League game have in common with Data integrity and the upcoming election?
Today, I attended JFL games at Peoria Manual. As the games went on it was hard to believe the number of cell phones that were either ringing or involved in conversation. That did not include all the texting. These were both in use by adults and kids. That being said.
What portion of the adult group do not have a conventional land line and are linked to the world by Cellphone. These adults are voters as they vote for themselves and their family. What about Data integrity?
If you look at the poll data it is collected by phone. Cellphones are not used in polling data since the phones are usually not listed in any reference and the phones would be registered to an adult and most families have numerous numbers for all the family members.
With this string one would have to think that the cellphone group may be attracted to one candidate grouping. This would make that group come up short in conventional polling detail.
Would you consider polling data to data integrity issues.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Data Integrity will be a big issue in the upcoming election
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3 comments:
I always question it. I haven't been polled, either by cell or land line.
Very good point. 4 out of 8 of our immediate family do NOT have "land lines". And those for are all far more liberal than conservative.
This issue has been raised by me numerous times, beginning with the primaries, so I looked into it further. I found some data to indicate that some pollsters did not think it an issue, while others did.
http://www.politicsandtechnology.com/2006/05/the_impact_of_c.html
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/515/polling-cell-only-problem
I find it an interesting issue.
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