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Alec M. Gallup is Chairman of The Gallup Poll in the United States, and Chairman of The Gallup Organization Ltd. in Great Britain. He has been employed by Gallup since 1959 and has directed or played key roles in many of the company's most ambitious and innovative projects. Areas of responsibility have focused on sampling procedures, question development and design, and analysis and reporting. Survey projects have included the following:
Survey of Nine Islamic Nations A major survey of the publics in nine Islamic nations representing more than half of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims. Based on scientifically selected national samples and more than 10,000 interviews, the survey was designed to ascertain the attitudes and perceptions of the populations of these countries toward the United States and the West. The survey was conducted in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Indonesia and Morocco immediately following the events of September 11, 2002.
A major national survey based on individual samples of the populations of the 50 largest U.S. cities. This survey was designed to identify the most discriminating indicators of urban residents' level of satisfaction, or dissatisfaction, with various aspects of life in their cities. This survey lays the methodological groundwork for Gallup's Global Cities Project, which will be undertaken in major cities around the world.
This survey was designed to ascertain the attitudes, perceptions and behavior of the publics in 40 nations with regard to AIDS, including ways the disease is transmitted, misconceptions about the disease, and how AIDS victims should be dealt with.
This 25-nation survey measured the public's attitudes concerning the environment and its relationship to industrial and commercial development in their own communities, in their own nations, and on a worldwide basis. The survey was conducted in conjunction with the first World Forum on the Global Environment held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in January 1992.
The first scientifically-based national survey of the People's Republic of China. Based on more than 5,000 personal, in-home interviews and conducted in all of China's provinces and administrative districts. To measure "progress" or trends, full-scale, follow-up surveys were conducted in 1997 and 1999. A fourth effort is scheduled to start in 2003, as soon as the SARS situation is resolved.
One of the first scientifically-based multinational surveys, this in-depth investigation of the "state of mankind" around the world sought to identify the hopes and aspirations -- and the fears and concerns -- of people in different nations and cultures. Conducted in 40 nations.
These continuing "audits" or surveys are designed to track the public's attitudes toward enduring societal issues. They include: "Black & White Relations in the United States," an annual investigation of the attitudes and perceptions of the black and white populations concerning the state of race relations in the nation, and "The Haves and Have-Nots," a periodic audit revealing the differing attitudes and values of the "have" and the "have-not" populations in the United States.
The Annual Survey of The Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools This survey series tracks the attitudes of the American public, including parents, toward virtually the entire range of educational issues facing the nation, including such current topics as vouchers, the No Child Left Behind Act, etc. This survey has been conducted since 1969 in collaboration with Phi Delta Kappa, Inc., one of America's most prestigious educational institutions. Gallup's educational background includes undergraduate
work at Princeton University and the University of Iowa. He undertook
graduate work in communications and journalism at Stanford University,
and studied marketing and advertising research at New York University.
His publications include The Great American Success Story
(with George Gallup, Jr., Dow Jones-Irwin, 1986), Death Penalty
Sentiment in the United States (with Hans Zeisel, "Journal
of Quantitative Criminology," 1989), Presidential Approval:
A Source Book (with George Edwards, Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1990), The Gallup Poll Cumulative Index: Public Opinion
1935-1997, Scholarly Resources, 1999), and British Political
Opinion 1937-2000: The Gallup Polls (with Anthony King and Robert
Wybrow, Politicos Publishing, 2001).
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