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By 2018, what share of people contacted actually completed a typical U.S. telephone survey?

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±4 percentage points

A standard Gallup poll of 1,000 U.S. adults typically has about what margin of error?

Gallup's routine national polls interview about 1,000 adults; a much larger sample would be needed to shrink the margin of error further.

Source: Gallup (2024) news.gallup.com

about 3.4 billion

Around 2019, about how many robocalls were placed to U.S. phone numbers every month?

Pew Research pointed to the flood of robocalls as a major reason people screen calls and ignore legitimate survey researchers.

Source: Pew Research Center (2019) pewresearch.org

about 60,000 households

The U.S. Current Population Survey, the source of the monthly unemployment rate, samples about how many households?

The Census Bureau conducts this survey monthly, and its sample design was most recently redesigned in 2014.

Source: Wikipedia (Current Population Survey) (2014) en.wikipedia.org

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