SUMMARY OF MISSISSIPPI POLL METHODOLOGY

YEAR	SAMPLE SIZE	SAMPLE ERROR	RESPONSE RATE	DATES OF INTERVIEWS
1981	616	5%	75%	Oct 19-Nov 19
1982	894	4%	70%	Sept 7-18
1984	610	5%	73%	Apr 15-29
1986	611	5%	73%	Feb 17-26
1988 (April)	632	5%	73%	Apr 11-24
1988 (Sept.)	1022	3.8%	73%	Aug 29-Sept 17
1990	601	4%	73%	Mar 26-Apr 3
1992	558	4%	64%	Apr 1-14
1994	620	4%	69%	Apr 4-13
1996	601	4%	60%	Apr 9-20
1998	608	4%	64%	Apr 14-26
1999	659	4%	60%	Apr 5-14
2000	613	4%	49%	Apr 3-16
2002	608	4%	50%	Apr 1-14
2004	523	4.4%	48%	Apr 5-21
2006	574	4.2%	50%	Apr 3-23
2008	528	4.4%	40%	Apr 2-22
2010	604	4.1%	42%	Apr 5-25
2012	439	4.8%	26%	Apr 2-25
2014	350	5.4%	31%	Apr 7-30

Note: The sample error decreases beginning in 1990 due to the purchase of working telephone

numbers from a private sampling firm, which guaranteed more of a first-stage sampling procedure

than was the case with the previously used two-stage sampling process.

Note: The sample error increases beginning in 2008 due to the decline in the response rate,

reflecting a national phenomenon (Bardes and Oldendick book, 2012, page 283).