CVoter

CVoter: Welcome to India's largest opinionated community !

Center for Voting Opinion & Trends in Election Research (CVoter) is initiative to act as an interface between the people and the polity. During last two decades it has established itself as largest Indian owned public opinion and stakeholder research agency. It has credibility and reputation of a leader in evaluations across south and south-east Asian regional footprint. Team CVoter has been providing timely and accurate service to organizations working in various parts of the world; especially to those involved in the transitional societies including conflict and disaster hit areas and supporting society by means of policy oriented research. It is also the best known brand for Political Polling in India.

CVoter network is a group essentially dealing with communications strategy, with an emphasis on research, design and production. As on today, the team interviews, analyzes or processes opinions of approximately half a million respondents every year across all shades of society via F2F (face to face) or CATI. This sheer quantity and quality of assignment is backed by state-of-the-art data management center and a group of highly motivated professionals .

CVoter has been providing timely and accurate advice to organizations working in various parts of the world; especially to firms that are involved in the upliftment of the deprived sections of society through the core expertise areas which include evaluation, designing, field data collection, report writing, analysis and training in Survey operations. The last part is considered most important as the CVoter Foundation works for local capacity building through training in Survey research field operations in collaboration with Universities and Academic institutions in Transitional Societies. CVoter operations are structured to support field teams in difficult and unstable environments; including societies hit by Conflict or Disasters.

Team CVoter research clients in India include TOI and ITG. The TOI group runs India’s largest circulated newspaper (The Times Of India) as well as India’s most watched English News Channel (Times Now). The ITG runs India’s largest circulated magazine (India Today) as well as India’s most watched Hindi News Channel (Aaj Tak). All the top 10 newspapers and top 10 news channels in India have been subscribing to our data in last two decades. Team CVoter is also the India Representative in ISSP (International Social Survey Program); WVS (World Values Survey); WWbI (World WellBeing Index) and also the BBC Globescan. It happens to be the most sought after research team for academic research done by scholars or various Ivy League Universities; including Yale and Stanford.

Its internal quality assurance and operations is supplied by a 26 member core team of experts supported by it's own 24x7 back office and 125 seats Global CATI center which undertakes survey design, fieldwork, data processing and analytic assignments in large volumes. The group carries out almost 25 international and domestic evaluation projects every year. In India; their weekly omnibus is carried out in 12 languages and covers the most heterogeneous and complex societies in a country of 1.2 billion people. It also happens to be the only regular currency to map the dynamic public opinion of the fastest growing democratic economy of the world.

Yashwant Deshmukh; founder of Cvoter; is a seasoned communications entrepreneur and over the last two decades has become a celebrated figure in the South Asian media and communication industry. As founder-owner of YRD Media, over the last two decades he has implemented stakeholder research assignments in more than 30 odd countries. Yashwant is known in the evaluations sector for his emphasis on impeccable research, design and production. His innovative and original analysis across the spectrum of Transitional, Disaster & Conflict hit societies is widely quoted.