Surveys you can commission in a week, studies you can defend in a boardroom

PollsAfrica designs, runs and reports surveys across Africa. We start where your question is small. Most clients begin with a pulse study, then add a tracker or a full study when the first answer shows it is worth it. Every study is scoped to your audience, so you get a fixed price for an agreed scope, and the price arrives within one working day of your question.

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Follow your study live

Every study comes with a private study room. You sign in with your own account and watch the fieldwork as it happens:

• completed interviews against your target, and how many came in each day;
• how the sample is filling, by region, age and area, with the same views in every country we work in;
• how invitations turn into interviews on each channel;
• our quality checks, including how many interviews were held out and why;
• every stage of the project, from design and pilot to analysis and report, with dates.

The figures refresh every 15 minutes. You see totals and shares only, never anyone’s phone number or personal details. The headline results appear only after our expert has signed them off, so you are never handed half-finished numbers. Access is set up per study, so one client never sees another’s work.

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What drives the cost

Studies with the same number of interviews can be very different jobs. These are the things that move a price:

• Who you want to hear from. The general public on their phones is the simplest. Customers of one company, small business owners, farmers or company decision-makers take more effort to find.
• Countries and languages. Each extra country and each extra language adds translation, testing and checking.
• The length and difficulty of the questionnaire, including open-ended questions that need coding.
• How we collect: panel messaging, phone follow-up, or interviewers on the ground.
• Sample size, and how precise you need the result to be.
• What you want back: a topline and charts, a full report, a presentation, the data file, a dashboard.

First-clients pilot

We are building our list of named references, so The first five clients who let us publish an anonymised case study get a reduced pilot price on their first study. You approve the case study text before it is published. Ask for the pilot price when you send your question.

Where we run studies

Ask for the current panel size in your country. Other countries are quoted on request, usually through a field partner.

How we reduce your risk

• A named university expert from the country reviews the design and signs off every study.
• We follow the AAPOR and WAPOR codes of ethics. Every result states who was asked, how, when and the exact questions (see our standards and credentials).
• A fixed price for the agreed scope, before we start.
• A live study room, so you can watch the fieldwork instead of waiting for a report.
• We say plainly what a panel can and cannot tell you. We never call an opt-in panel nationally representative.

What we need from you

A short paragraph with your question, the country, the audience and the date you need the answer. We reply within one working day with a recommended design, a price and a timeline. Use the contact form or email research@pollsafrica.com.