The Polls in the 2017 Election: A BPC Conference

Conference, Press Releases,

The British Polling Council is pleased to host a special conference on 20th February 2018 to review and debate the performance of the opinion polls at the 2017 General Election.

The conference will be held at the Royal Statistical Society. Tickets are free of charge but registration is essential via Eventbrite.

Programme

Chair: Sharon Witherspoon, Academy of Social Sciences

2-2.30 Introduction & The Challenges Facing The Polls in 2017: John Curtice (BPC)

2.30-3.15 How We Performed 1: Presentations by ComRes (Jansev Jamal), Survation (Damian Lyons-Lowe) and YouGov (Anthony Wells)

3.15 Break

3.30 A New Approach? The Use of Mixed Level Regression and Post-Stratification in the 2017 Election: Ben Lauderdale (LSE)

4.00 How We Performed 2: Presentations by Kantar (Luke Taylor) & Ipsos MORI (Gideon Skinner)

4.30 An Independent Reaction and Q&A: Steve Fisher (Oxford)