Rutgers political scientist Cliff Zukin estimates that landline-only phone surveys miss about 60% of eligible voters. Good pollsters try to compensate by sampling cellphone users, too. (Pew will sample 75% cellphones in 2016.) But that’s more complicated for several reasons: Federal law requires that pollsters dial cellphone numbers manually (no robo calls); people have cellphones registered in areas where they don’t live; and respondents with data plans that count minutes are often unwilling to stay on the phone for very long.
VTC Study Helps Shape New South Jersey Microtransit Service
Traveling from Point A to Point B can be challenging for New Jerseyans with disabilities and older adults seeking to access destinations both within and beyond their county of residence. Since 2021, researchers at the Rutgers Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC), part...