IranPoll is honored that the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) has selected Dr. Amir Farmanesh, CEO of People Analytics (IranPoll), as its national representative for Iran. WAPOR explains this role as “National Representatives serve an important role within the organization” towards “growing expansion of WAPOR in all parts of the world”. This role includes acting as a general liaison between WAPOR and opinion polling in Iran following WAPOR quality and ethical standards.

WAPOR is an international professional association of researchers in the field of survey research. For 70 years, WAPOR has promoted the highest professional standards, ethics and techniques for polling around the world. WAPOR is a member organization of the International Social Science Council and in 1953, it became the sole non-government consultant organization to UNESCO in the field of polling. WAPOR’s international membership represents the industry’s most respected names in the survey and public opinion research field.

Since its inception, IranPoll has been avidly implementing WAPOR/AAPOR/ESOMAR quality standard guidelines including the ESOMAR/WAPOR Guide to Opinion Polls in all its projects. In addition, IranPoll has been an active participant in WAPOR conferences over the past years and its team has presented a number of papers in those events.