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               AAPOR'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
            TO BRING POLLSTERS, CAMPAIGN CONSULTANTS,
           MEDIA EXPERTS TO FORT LAUDERDALE MAY 18-21

The 50th annual conference of the American Association for Public
Opinion Research will be held May 18-21 at the Bonaventure Resort
and Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Nearly 600 registered will
hear academic, commercial, and government experts present papers
and discuss issues ranging from the validity of pre-election and
exit polls to media coverage of Presidential campaigns to the
growing cynicism about politics in American life.

Of particular interest to general audiences will be sessions with
the following titles:
                        American Politics

*  The 1994 Elections: What Have We Learned?
*  Panel on the 1994 Elections:  The View From Directors of Four
     State Polls
*  Exit Polling: Four Critiques
*  Panel On the Growing Cynicism About Politics in American Life
*  Media Reporting and Public Consumption of Polls
*  Public Attitudes Toward Government and the State of the Nation
*  Pre-Election Polls
                          Other Topics

*  Surveys and Sex: Science, Politics, and Response to the National
     Health and Social Life Survey
*  Panel On Public Journalism and the Polls: Rethinking Our Roles
*  Television's Role in Public Opinion Formation and Change
*  Reporting Race and Ethnicity, Understanding Prejudice and
     Segregation
*  Gender Differences
*  Understanding Violence, Crime and Punishment, Macro to Micro
*  Research On Health: Opinion and Policy
*  Public Opinion Research: The Changing Shape of an Industry
*  Evaluating New Technologies: On-Ramps to the Coming Information
     Superhighway?
*  Survey and Market Research Meet the Internet

The AAPOR conference program includes 50 such sessions, each with
three to five presentations, held concurrently in one of ten
separate time periods over the four days.  Most of the
presentations are available as formal papers or other handouts;
almost all are abstracted in the published conference program.
Presenters and discussants come from most of the major survey
research and polling organizations, both university and commercial
(like NORC, SRC-Michigan, Gallup and Roper), other academic and
research positions, the major television networks, newspapers and
other media, and federal agencies like the Bureau of Labor
Statistics and the Bureau of the Census.

Organized beginning in Fall 1945, AAPOR held the first of its
annual conferences in July 1946 in Central City, Colorado.  AAPOR
currently has more than 1,400 paid members in 46 states, the
District of Columbia, and 25 other countries (8 percent of the
total membership).  Of all members, 41.5 percent come from academia
and 41.5 percent from the commercial sector; the remaining 17
percent represent government or other nonprofit organizations.  In
addition to the annual conferences, many AAPOR members meet
regularly throughout the year in one of seven regional chapters:
the Midwest, New England, New Jersey, New York, Pacific, Southern,
and Washington/Baltimore chapters.
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For details, contact: James Beniger <beniger@rcf.usc.edu>,
(310) 546-3040; or Karen Goldenberg <goldenbk@oeus.psb.bls.gov>,
(202) 606-6358, fax (202) 606-6425.