Which organization conducted the 2013 CNN-IBN–The Hindu Election Tracker…

Concept

An opinion-poll project can assign different roles to different organizations: a research agency designs the sample, conducts fieldwork, and analyses responses, while media organizations sponsor, broadcast, or publish the findings.

Therefore, to identify who conducted a survey, distinguish the research organization that performed the study from the media partners named in the survey title.

Application

The contemporary survey description calls it the CNN-IBN–CSDS–The Hindu Election Tracker and states that the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, through Lokniti-CSDS, conducted the field survey across 267 parliamentary constituencies in 18 states.

Cross-check and contrast

• The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies is the research institution identified as the survey conductor.

• The Association for Democratic Reforms works on electoral transparency, candidate disclosures, and political reform; it is not identified as the conducting body in the source description.

• CNN-IBN was the television news broadcaster associated with the tracker; CNN and IBN were not two separate survey agencies here.

• CNN-IBN and The Hindu were media partners associated with publishing and reporting the tracker, not the research body that carried out the field survey.

Thus, the survey was conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS).