Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

demoscópica

English translation:

survey/ opinion poll

Added to glossary by Ann Hannigan Breen
Jul 9, 2016 16:37
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Spanish term

demoscópica

Spanish to English Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. Sociology
Does this word exist? Its frequency on Google is very low and it doesn't appear in the corpora I've looked at. It seems to have to do with dempgraphic surveys.
Quote: ...nos centraremos en la serie demoscópica llevada a cabo por el grupo de investigación en pedagogía y educación ambiental de la Universidad...

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survey/ opinion poll

a series of surveys/opinion polls
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you very much; that makes perfect sense. "
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public opinion (focused/cent(e)red) research

http://www.wordreference.com/definicion/demoscopia
demoscopia
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Inflexiones de 'demoscopia' (n): fpl: demoscopias

Diccionario de la lengua española © 2005 Espasa-Calpe:
demoscopia

Estudio mediante encuestas de las opiniones, gustos y comportamiento de un grupo humano:
la cadena encargó una demoscopia sobre los programas más oídos.

http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=demo...
demoscopia
SF public opinion research

http://dirae.es/palabras/demoscópico
demoscópico
demoscópico, ca. 1. adj. Perteneciente o relativo a la demoscopia. Esto es un extracto. Ver definición completa en el Diccionario de la RAE.

demoscopia
demoscopia. (Del al. Demoskopie). 1. f. Estudio de las opiniones, aficiones y comportamiento humanos mediante sondeos de opinión. Esto es un extracto. Ver definición completa en el Diccionario de la RAE.

demoscópico, ca.
1. adj. Perteneciente o relativo a la demoscopia.
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Nonresponse Bias and Superpopulation Models in Electoral Polls ...
www.reis.cis.es/REIS/PDF/REIS_137_07_english1326201097876.p...
by M José - ‎2012 - ‎Cited by 4 - ‎Related articles
ratio utilizados actualmente por la industria demoscópica no muestran una capacidad suficiente ... efforts of researchers were promptly focused on trying to understand the ..... many public opinion research institutes (in- cluding CIS) typically ...


So, public opinion (focused/cent(e)red) research / series > demoscópico(a) [centred, British English].
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demoscopic

Whether it actually exists or not, it looks real and Latin-based enough to sneak in the back door IMHO.

"We focus on a series of demoscopic surveys carried out by...."

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Please feel free to ignore my suggestion entirely as apparently I "do not meet criteria"...

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Thiese people oevidently belive it does exist:
[Report of experiences of a demoscopic survey of a 5-day ... - NCBI www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3394330 by K Rametsteiner - ‎1988 - ‎Cited by 1 - ‎Related articles
Wien Med Wochenschr. 1988 Apr 15;138(6-7):142-6. [Report of experiences of a demoscopic survey of a 5-day therapy group for the cessation of smoking].

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In fact, if you google ""demoscopic survey" you¡ll find several published examples, mostly admittedly by foreign authors, but there you go.
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