Are phone polls more accurate than internet polls in the EU referendum?

It is difficult to conceive of a tougher test for political pollsters, after a year (2015) they would rather forget, than the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union in June 2016: a binary decision that cuts across traditional party lines with no recent equivalent vote to turn to for reference.

To make matters worse, there is currently a huge gulf between what polls conducted online and most of those administered over the phone are saying. At this rate, the political polling industry risks emerging from one post-mortem only to be plunged into the need for another.

• Primary Source

ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

ESO: Background information: Remain or Leave? What the betting markets tell us http://www.europeansources.info/record/remain-or-leave-what-the-betting-markets-tell-us/

ESO: Background information: Do British voters actually want to leave the EU? http://www.europeansources.info/record/do-british-voters-actually-want-to-leave-the-eu/

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