CIS - Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas

Given some doubts and erroneous information that has been spread about the latest CIS barometer, we want to clarify the following:

• The inclusion of a question on political interest in the monthly CIS barometers has no cost for this institution, since this question is included in the barometers that the CIS has been carrying out every month. Barometers in which, before the arrival of José María Aznar to the Government, this question was usually included.
• The reasons that motivate the inclusion of this question, as well as other current political questions, are to be able to provide citizens, as well as Parliament and Spanish society in general, with more detailed, regular and immediate information. What should be understood as a contribution of general interest to everyone.
• The vote projection model that the CIS includes in its latest barometer is perfectly explained on the CIS website, which anyone can consult freely. With this projection, what is called “kitchen” is avoided and that is not always explained or well understood by those who follow the CIS information. In this case, the CIS collects what the surveyed population thinks and says directly, without any distortion or unexplained re-elaboration. As anyone can see directly, the direct vote is collected and what the respondents themselves declare about the party with which they most sympathize is imputed as a possible added vote. Logically, this results in the parties that have more voting intentions and more sympathies appearing above those that have less direct voting intentions and less sympathies.
• The sample size of the CIS barometer for the month of September and the largest sampling points in which the surveys are currently carried out (292 municipalities in all Spanish provinces) allow the CIS data to be more representative and more reliable. At the same time, progress is also being made to make these accessible to all parties, political groups, media and citizens, with greater speed, transparency and immediacy with respect to the moment in which they have been carried out. Which implies greater effort and dedication from all CIS staff to offer better, more rigorous and faster information.

For any questions, the Communication telephone number is 91 580 76 25.

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C/ Montalbán, 8
28014 Madrid
Email: comunicacion@cis.es
Tlf.: 91.580.76.25
Fax: 91.531.81.31

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