How many major polls call cell phone users?

[Puzzler]

If cell phone users (ie: 99% of the population below 35) are under-polled or not polled at all, then how can any of the national polls be even remotely accurate? The bias would almost certainly favor the GOP.

[Kookaburra]

1. I can only speak from personal experience,

but I have never received a single polling call on my mobile -- nor have any of my friends. We all have mobiles only, having given up land lines as superfluous and expensive many years ago.

So there my own take on the situation: they don't call mobile phone users.

[justiceischeap]

2. I'm in my early 40's and use a cell phone only

I've never been polled.

[etherealtruth]

7. I am 50 and solely use a cell phone

I have neever been polled

[Robb]

3. Off the top of my head, all of them, I believe. They weigh the results.

I went to Pew, clicked the first thing I saw and found this:

About the Survey

The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted August 31-September 3, 2012 among a national sample of 1,008 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (606 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 402 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 180 who had no landline telephone). The survey was conducted by interviewers at Princeton Data Source under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. A combination of landline and cell phone random digit dial samples were used; both samples were provided by Survey Sampling International. Interviews were conducted in English. Respondents in the landline sample were selected by randomly asking for the youngest adult male or female who is now at home. Interviews in the cell sample were conducted with the person who answered the phone, if that person was an adult 18 years of age or older. For detailed information about our survey methodology, see: http://people-press.org/methodology/.

The combined landline and cell phone sample are weighted using an iterative technique that matches gender, age, education, race, Hispanic origin and region to parameters from the March 2011 Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey and population density to parameters from the Decennial Census. The sample also is weighted to match current patterns of telephone status, based on extrapolations from the 2011 National Health Interview Survey. The weighting procedure also accounts for the fact that respondents with both landline and cell phones have a greater probability of being included in the combined sample and adjusts for household size among respondents with a landline phone. Sampling errors and statistical tests of significance take into account the effect of weighting.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Never

I work in the industry for a company with both landline and wireless services. I believe for the next 20 years or so people will continue to be under represented. And if you look at the urban areas of the US - many are forgoing landline altogether and sticking with just a cell. No need for an answering machine, purchasing a landline phone, etc. etc. Our landline is for business (my husband's) and each of our mother's have the phone number. That's it. No family, no friends, and political donations I give the cell phone - because it's where I want to be reached if there is an issue.

[IDemo]

5. Never had a poll or sales call on my cell n/t

[shanti]

6. cell phone only

never been polled. i HAVE gotten spam messages though. maybe they're aiming for the old farts who just have a landline.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. How many major polls call cell phone users?

Only the ones who want to be accurate.

[slampoet]

9. Every landline ive ever had has been polled, 5 times this year, but cell? never.

As I recall there is a legal restriction against it.

But i never worked that end of the telecom industry so i don't know for sure.

[janx]

10. I've often wondered the same thing--

and there are plenty of people over 35 that use a cell phone exclusively.