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The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), is a professional organization of more than 2,000 public opinion and survey research professionals in the United States and from around the world, with members from academia, media, government, the non-profit sector and private industry. AAPOR publishes three academic journals: ''(Public Opinion Quarterly )'', ''(Survey Practice )'' and the ''(Journal for Survey Statistics and Methodology )''. It holds an annual research conference and maintains a "Code of Professional Ethics and Practices," for survey research which all members agree to follow. AAPOR’s stated principle is that public opinion research is essential to a healthy democracy, providing information crucial to informed policy-making and giving voice to people’s beliefs, attitudes and desires. Through its annual conference, standards and ethics codes and publications, AAPOR seeks to promote a better public understanding of the role of public opinion research in a democracy, as well as the sound and ethical conduct and use of public opinion research. ==Standards & Ethics== Promoting standards and ethics is central AAPOR's mission. The individuals who are members of AAPOR agree to observe the organization’s Code of Professional Ethics and Practices that define and mandate the proper practice of public opinion and survey research with the appropriate use of research results. The Code is designed to express fundamental principles that apply to the conduct of research regardless of an individual’s membership in AAPOR. Adherence to the principles andactions set out in the Code is possible for of all public opinion and survey researchers, whether they are AAPOR members or not. Under the Code, practitioners of survey research are expected to conduct their research with care, taking all reasonable steps to assure the reliability and validity of the results and communicate their methods and findings accurately with appropriate detail. The AAPOR code details the standards for dealing with research participants and identifiable information. And it indicates the need to provide clients with all information regarding possible research limitations and the need for disclosure. The latest revision was approved in May 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American Association for Public Opinion Research」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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