The ComRes Europoll™Making it easy to access MEPs’ views

March 2009

• Market research, polling and Stakeholder research

What is ComRes?

• Robust research, conducted by communications professionals

• A full service offering

• A unique range of tools

ComRes approach

Communicate Research

Communications consultancies

Traditional Market Research Agencies

• Consultative and collaborative

• The price of a question unit on our research tools includes expert assistance with question design

• Maximise value and minimise costs

• Prices also include a full analytical report where necessary and help with distributing and presenting results

Full service offering

Memberships and Accreditations

• ComRes is retained by the Independent, the Independent on Sunday and the BBC to provide research

• Other work produced by ComRes has appeared prominently in publications including the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mirror, the Sun, the Express and the Daily Mail.

• ComRes has appeared in the national press well over 500 times since 2005

• ComRes’s strong media contacts allow a further direct channel through which results can be convincingly distributed

ComRes in the media

ComRes Europoll™

• The first survey research panel of MEPs for omnibus (multi-client) use

• Draws on our extensive collection of other political research facilities – including the largest panel of UK MPs ever established

• Enables you to define and quantify the views of MEPs from across the entire political and member state spectrum

How can Europoll™ support you?

•Measure and track perceptions and attitudes towards your organisation and its peer group

•Research MEPs’ views towards the issues influencing your policy environment

•Improve the effectiveness of your advocacy among MEPs

•Identify likely future trends and prepare for them

Europoll™ methodology

•Online survey

• Omnibus approach with a maximum of 30 questions

•A guaranteed minimum of 100 MEPs responding to each survey

•Representative in terms of Political Groups and the distribution of Member States

Europoll™ results

•Data weighted to fully reflect the composition of the European Parliament

•Results analysed by MEPs’ age, gender, region and political group

•Fully actionable analytical report as standard and presentation of results in person if required

Europoll™ timing

• Europoll™ is a quarterly survey with the next waves going into field at the end of September and November

•Results available 5 weeks after commencement of fieldwork

•Topline summary results 10 days before final delivery

ComRes Brussels

•Europoll™ MEPs research

• Bespoke qualitative stakeholder research

• Bespoke quantitative research

• Projects conducted in the full range of European languages

• Europollwatch

Andrew Hawkins: andrew@comres.co.uk Daniel Hamilton: dan@comres.co.uk