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Letter from the President Dr 1st Quarter 1999 • WAPOR Newsletter • Page 1 NEWSLETTERThird Quarter 2002 Executive Council President Mr. Brian Gosschalk, UK Past President Letter from the President Dr. Miguel Basáñez, Mexico Vice President & President-Elect Dr. Kathleen A. Frankovic, USA Secretary-Treasurer he Cadenabbia Conference is reported on elsewhere Dr. Allan L. McCutcheon, USA in this newsletter. I have no intention of giving a second Members-at-Large T Prof. Ottar Hellevik, Norway perspective, but rather of sharing with you some of my thoughts Prof. Esteban López-Escobar, Spain on the plane home from Italy. UNESCO / ISSC Liaison Committee Mr. Nick Moon, UK Professional Standards Committee The first was about the series of seminars on Quality held in Dr. Tom Smith, USA Cadenabbia. This was the fourth such seminar, which has been Membership Committee Chair Dr. Allan L. McCutcheon, USA driven by Wolfgang Donsbach, and strongly supported by the Institut fur Demoskopie Allensbach. Over the years we have WAPOR President IJPOR Managing Editor Brian Gosschalk Dr. Wolfgang Donsbach, Germany had some stimulating, thought-provoking papers, combined with Historian Ms. Helen M. Crossley, USA much stimulating discussion and debate. There have been General Secretary/Newsletter Editor friendly arguments, iconoclastic contributions, and spirited exchanges, all in a frame- Ms. Renae Reis, USA work of goodwill and intellectual curiosity. National Representatives Argentina, Marita Carballo Australia, Mr. Ian W. McNair My second thought was how fortunate our Association is to have the active partici- Brazil, Mr. Örjan Olsén pation of what might be termed the living legends of survey research (in another Canada, Mr. Raffaele Fasiolo Chile, Ms. Marta Lagos context, Wolfgang referred to them affectionately as “the old buffaloes”). It is a China, Mr. David T. Bottomley Costa Rica, Dr. Carlos F. Denton privilege for younger researchers – and indeed the not so young – to be able to mix Denmark, Mr. Nils Røhme and discuss freely with Dinerman Award winners such as Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Egypt, Dr. Salwa Hosney El Amri Finland, Leila K. Lotti Hans Zetterberg, Bob Worcester and Mahar Mangahas. We are the richer for their Germany, Mr. Thomas Petersen Hong Kong, Mr. Ting-yiu Chung involvement and their generous contribution to our heri- India, Mr. Prakash Nijhara tage. Italy, Dr. Nicola Piepoli Japan, Mr. Kazuo Kobayashi Inside Mexico, Mr. Alejandro Moreno Third, I reflected on just how truly international ISSC & Cape Town Netherlands, Dr. Frits Spangenberg Conferences...............2 Norway, Ottar Hellevik WAPOR is. Even Cadenabbia, where we aim to have a Peru, Mr. Alfredo Torres Constitution Note......2 Philippines, Dr. Mahar K. relatively small number of attendees (25), had delegates Mangahas from 12 different countries, as far apart as Chile and Survey Research Poland, Dr. Krzysztof Zagórski Standards....................3 Russia, Dr. Elena I. Bashkirova Egypt, or Canada and the Czech Republic; our Annual South Africa, Ms. Mari Harris Conference typically draws members from around 25-30 Germany 2002 Federal Sweden, Dr. Karin Busch Zetterberg Elections......................5 Switzerland, Dr. Sibylle Hardmeier countries across the globe. Our multi-culturalism and UK, Dr. Elizabeth H. Nelson Upcoming Thematic Uruguay, Prof. César Aguiar diversity are real strengths, along with a spirit of tolerance Seminar in Zurich......7 USA, Dr. Mark Schulman and mutual respect. Quality Criteria in Survey Research........8 Fourth, it occurred to me once again that WAPOR Final thoughts on UPCOMING ANNUAL CONFERENCE: fulfils the all-too-rare function of drawing together people Cadenabbia................10 SEPTEMBER11-13, 2003 from a wide range of professional backgrounds and PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC disciplines. Journalists, academics, pollsters, government Fulbright Scholar......11 Election Note............11 (continued on page 12) Page 2 • WAPOR Newsletter • 1st Quarter 1999 International Conference on Social Science and Social Policy in the 21st Century By Nick Moon, UNESCO/ISSC Liaison Founded in 1952 by UNESCO, the International Social Science Council (ISSC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary by holding a major conference on the state of the social sciences and their role in national and international social policy making. WAPOR is one of 14 Member Associations of the ISSC and has for some time been represented on the ISSC Executive Committee by Prof. Marita Carballo of Gallup Argen- tina. Thanks to the efforts of Marita, WAPOR will be represented at the Conference through a Special Session on “Generating and publishing accurate data on public opinion.” The session is intended to look both backwards and forwards on the relationship between the media and survey research firms and how organizations have tried to develop guidelines for the media use of survey research; and on media organizations and survey research in different cultures. There will be four speakers in the session – Tom Smith from NORC in the US, Elena Bashkirova from Romir in Russia, Ijaz Gilani from Pakistan, and Nick Moon from NOP Research in London, who has recently taken over from Marita as WAPOR Council member with responsibility as liaison with the ISSC. The conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, from 9-11 December 2002. Its overall purpose is to provide an overview of the developments in the social and behavioural sciences over the last fifty years, and to look forward to the future. There will be four Plenary Sessions with invited speakers, three Special Presentations, sixteen Special Sessions, and three individual paper sessions. Presentations will be followed by discussion. Further details can be found at the ISSC Website: http://www.unesco.org/ngo/issc/ Cape Town, South Africa May 7-10, 2003 CONSTITUTION UPDATE Pack your bags … WAPOR is going to sunny South Africa. The regional conference for WAPOR will be The process of adopting a new Constitution can be held in Cape Town, South Africa from 7 – 10 May 2003. long and arduous, whether it is a nation or an organiza- The Conference will be held at the Breakwater Lodge tion. The path the WAPOR Constitution must take is Hotel, right by the world famous V&A Waterfront. no exception. The document has now gone through The conference venue, where we all will be staying as several revisions. Its adoption will require acceptance well, has a great history to fit right in with the history of not by a majority of those voting, but by a majority of all its surroundings. The Breakwater Lodge was known as members on the rolls at the time of submission. That the Breakwater Prison in the 19th century. The Breakwa- makes the rules for passage quite different from the ter Prison was the first prison to effect racial segregation rules for elections of officers. due to the increase of “white” IDB (Illegal Diamond Buying) offenders. The prison housed most of these That means that the elections should not – and offenders. In 1902 another building was built to house cannot be held concurrently. This fall WAPOR will white male convicts and thus to effect a structural hold its election for officers – and the referendum on the separation from black convicts. The design of the prison Constitution will take place next March, after the was based on that of Millbank and Pentonville prison in constitutionally specified deadline for membership re- England. In 1926 it became a hostel for black dock newals. The website will continue to contain the most workers until 1991 when it was modernised in the Break- recent updates. water Lodge Hotel. The V&A Waterfront was part of the Cape Town Please see the changes on the website at: dockyard and was restored and turned into beautiful www.unl.edu/wapor/constitution.html. venues for shops, art galleries, museums and some of the world’s best restaurants in the early 1990’s. Check our website at www.unl.edu/wapor/ conferences.html for updated information. WAPOR Newsletter, Third Quarter 2002 — 2 1st Quarter 1999 • WAPOR Newsletter • Page 3 WAPOR Conference Mexico City, Mexico May 20, 2002 Pictured from left to right: Roy Campos, Ulises Beltrán. Enrique Alduncin, Francisco Abundis (barely visible), Alejandro Moreno and Miguel Basañez. For more information on the Sixth International WAPOR Seminar in Mexico City, take a look at the Second Quarter 2002 Newsletter at www.unl.edu/WAPOR. Survey research has begun to follow the path of professionalization, but has not completed the journey.1 In Professionalization and the estimation of Wolfgang Donsbach (1998), survey Survey-Research Standards research falls into the category of “semi-professional.” Among other things, it has been the failure of survey Tom W. Smith researchers “to define, maintain, and reenforce standards WAPOR Professional Standards Chair in their area (Donsbach, 1998, p. 23)” that has deterred full professionalization. As Irving Crespi (1998, p. 77) has National Opinion Research Center noted, “In accordance with precedents set by law and University of Chicago medicine, developing a code of standards has long been August, 2002 central to the professionalization of any occupation.” He also adds that “One hallmark of professionals is that they can, and do, meet performance standards.” In Donsbach’s During the last century professional associations have analysis (1998, p. 26) the problem is that standards have been an emerging source of societal standards. More and neither been sufficiently internalized nor adequately en- more occupations have followed the lead of such groups as forced: doctors
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