Summary: In conjunction with the release of the 2014 Lowy Institute Poll today, we have recorded a podcast which outlines and explains the methodology used in our annual polling. In this podcast Lowy Institute Poll Director Alex Oliver, speaks with Sol Lebovic, who has provided independent advice and technical support to the Lowy Institute over the last six years of our polling program. Sol is one of Australia’s most distinguished pollsters, founding Newspoll in 1985 and directing it for more than two decades. Sol explains in this podcast how the Lowy Institute Poll’s sample size, sample selection and weighting methods provide a reliable and rigorous survey which is representative of the views of the Australian public, with an error margin of approximately 3.1%.
