World Association for Public Opinion Research
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| Abbreviation | WAPOR |
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| Formation | 1947 |
| Type | Professional association |
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Membership
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> 600 |
| Tom W. Smith | |
| Website | http://wapor.org |
The World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) is an international professional association of researchers in the fields of communication and survey research. It is a member organization of the International Social Science Council.
Established in 1947 at the Second International Conference on Public Opinion Research held in Williamstown, Massachusetts as the World Congress on Public Opinion Research, the association acquired its current name in 1948, at the Third International Conference on Public Opinion Research. In 1953, it became the sole nongovernment consultant organization to UNESCO in the field of polling.
Its current president is Tom W. Smith (NORC) and the vice president is Alejandro Moreno (Reforma, in Mexico). Among the former presidents of WAPOR are Juan Linz, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Robert Worcester and Seymour Martin Lipset.
Over time, WAPOR's membership has grown and become more international. In 1956, roughly a decade after its founding, the association had 158 members from about 20 countries; by 1962, these figures had risen to approximately 200 and more than 30, respectively. In 1970, WAPOR had more than 300 members from 41 countries.
As of 2012, the association has over 600 members from research institutes and universities in over 60 countries on six continents.
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