Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll on the 2016 presidential race has received wide coverage across the country and internationally. Beyond ABC and the Post, we’ve seen mention of the poll in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, onNational Public Radio, in Politico, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, People magazine, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Newsday, Bloomberg News,Fox News, CNBC, RushLimbaugh.com, Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Slate, The Hill, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Herald, The New York Post, theToledo Blade, Commentary magazine, the Independent (U.K.), the Daily Mail (U.K.), The Guardian (U.K.), the Japan Times, Canada Journal, theSydney Morning Herald, the Gulf News (U.A.E.), the Times of India, the Straits Times (Singapore), the Russian news outletRT.com, the Herald News (Zimbabwe) and scores of other outlets, including local TV and radio stations, newspapers and news websites.

The range of our work at Langer Research Associates was on display at the past week’s annual meetings of the American Association for Public Opinion Research and the World Association for Public Opinion Research in Austin, Texas, where we presented five papers and two posters and demonstrated PARC™, our knowledge management software application for survey research professionals.

Joined by our research partners at ESPN Consumer Insights, we presented “The New Living Room: How Americans View their Video,” an in-depth study of changing video consumption habits. In another joint presentation, with our colleagues at the National Sleep Foundation, we reported on the Foundation’s new Sleep Health Index, a robust and accessible tool for tracking the public’s sleep health.

We were joined by our partners at Counterpart International and D3 Systems Inc. in summarizing a detailed report on the effectiveness of a USAID-funded community development program in Bangladesh. And Gary Langer and Senior Research Analyst Chad Kiewiet de Jonge co-presented our analysis of the 2016 presidential election for ABC News, including a summary of Republican and Democratic primary exit poll results and our evaluation of the attitudinal roots of support for Donald Trump.

We presented an evaluation of public attitudes on climate change and their potential role in the 2016 election. Research Analyst Margaret Tyson contributed a poster on our test of the accuracy of gender coding by telephone interviewers. And we presented a poster describing PARC, the Polling Archive, our cloud-based software application that seamlessly stores, searches and retrieves essential survey materials.

A record of nearly 1,200 researchers attended this year’s AAPOR conference, held jointly this year with WAPOR. We were honored to participate, to learn from our colleagues and to share these examples of our own work.

We’re excited to announce the formal launch of PARC, the Polling Archive – a comprehensive knowledge management software application for survey research practitioners.

PARC™ offers data archive and retrieval capabilities specifically designed for the effective management of survey projects, with full-text word search of individual survey questions (with trended results), programmed questionnaires and analyses. Search results are single-click linked to datasets, banner books, file memos and any other project files.

Question-level results are easily combined and exported to create new trend documents or programmed questionnaires with the assurance of consistent wording, structure, instructions and coding over time. PARC’s full-text search capability also is effective in managing qualitative analyses, transcripts and other documents.

PARC is hosted on the secure Microsoft Azure cloud platform with DigiCert SSL encryption. Individual users have access only to their own files. Internal and public-facing versions are available, as are internal server-based solutions.

     PARC: Better. Faster. Results.

• Thorough: Find the results of every survey question you’ve ever asked, any project, any time.
• Consistent: Ensure consistency for trend questions – know you’re asking the exact same question with the same options and instructions instead of relying on group memory.
• Fast: Save time by finding results and questionnaire wording with a click of a button, instead of digging through files and folders.
• Accurate: Quickly construct programmed questionnaires with complete, correct programmer instructions and notes.

Click here for a 5-minute video introduction to PARC, and contact info@langerresearch.com for details or a free trial account.

Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll analysis takes a close look at Donald Trump’s favorability ratings overall and across groups, with comparisons to previous presidential candidates in ABC/Post polls back to 1984. We’ve seen pickup in Politico and the Chicago Tribune, among others.

We’ve covered the 2016 presidential primary exit polls in-depth for ABC News. See our full- season wrap-up here, our analysis of the May 3 Indiana primaries here, the April 26 “I-95” primaries here, the April 19 New York primaries here, the April 5 Wisconsin primaries here, the March 15 Junior Tuesday primaries here and the March 15 contests in Michigan and Mississippi here. (Check the 3/2/16 entry for previous exit poll analyses this year.)

Donald Trump scares millennial women, nearly half are uninspired by their choices for president – and when it comes to dinner with one of the candidates, four in 10 are already booked.

A remarkable 63 percent of women age 18 to 35 in an ABC News/Refinery29 poll say Trump scares them. Nearly half, 47 percent, don’t find any of the presidential candidates inspiring – including the one seeking to become the first female president. And when asked if there are any with whom they’d like to have dinner, another plurality, 39 percent, turns down the offer.

One reason: Half of these women say the candidates are not really discussing issues important to them, a major turn-off in terms of interest, voting intention and dinner arrangements alike. Young black women, in particular, say the campaign has failed to address the issues they care about most.

The national survey, produced for ABC News and Refinery29 by Langer Research Associates, covers a range of political and social concerns, from election issues to views on bias against women to student loan debt.

See Refinery29’s gorgeous coverage here, ABC News’ here and our source report here.

Young adults in a new Fusion 2016 Issues poll tilt slightly in favor of a federal apology for slavery but broadly oppose monetary reparations for past racial discrimination. Most also think people judge Barack Obama more harshly because he’s black – and more pick Bernie Sanders than Hillary Clinton as likeliest to appoint minorities to positions of power.

Fusion’s latest random-sample national telephone survey of 1,045 18- to 35-year-olds, focused on racial issues, finds differences within racial and ethnic groups in most of these views, marking the extent to which such divisions extend to the younger generation of American adults.

The survey is the latest in a series of polls of millennials produced for the network by Langer Research Associates. Focused on social and political issues of concern to the millennial generation, Fusion’s 2016 Issues Poll will be an ongoing fixture in the election year ahead.

See Fusion’s report here and our source analysis here.

Americans express broad support for initiatives to train and equip first responders and the public to render first aid for bleeding control in mass casualty incidents. Large majorities also say they personally would be likely to give such aid – especially if training and supplies were available.

There are compunctions: Six in 10 or more cite the risk of causing additional pain or injury, being responsible for a bad outcome or exposure to disease as impediments to aiding trauma victims. Yet for many, the desire to help outweighs these concerns.

These results from a national survey for the Hartford Consensus are forthcoming in an article in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, written by Lenworth M. Jacobs, MD; Karyl J. Burns, RN, Ph.D.; Gary Langer; and Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Ph.D.

Dr. Jacobs leads the Hartford Consensus, a group of trauma surgeons and other concerned professionals formed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, in December 2012. The group seeks to enhance the survivability of intentional mass casualty events by improving emergency treatment of severe bleeding, one of the leading causes of death in trauma victims.

The survey was produced by Langer Research Associates; the original report is available here.

Gary Langer presented the results at the Hartford Consensus IV meeting on Jan. 8 in Dallas to participants including Kathryn Brinsfield, MD, Assistant Secretary, Health Affairs, of the Department of Homeland Security; Frank Butler, MD, Chairman of the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care at the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Trauma System; Richard Carmona, MD, former Surgeon General of the United States; William Fabbri, MD, Director of Emergency Medical Services for the Federal Bureau of Investigation; David Hoyt, MD, Executive Director of the American College of Surgeons; Andrew Warshaw, MD, immediate Past President of the American College of Surgeons; Jonathan Woodson, MD, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; and other leaders in the field.

Follow these links for the journal abstract, a news release by the American College of Surgeons and the proceedings of the Hartford Consensus IV. The survey has been reported by several health-related news outlets, including Reuters, U.S. News and World Report and Science Daily.

We’ve produced a detailed analysis using statistical modeling to examine the roots of support for Donald Trump in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and in a hypothetical matchup with Hillary Clinton. The piece, by our Senior Research Analyst Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, has received wide exposure on ABCNews.com – see it here – as well as pickup by a range of other media. Chad was interviewed on it today on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show, here.

Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll covers the 2016 primaries, a Clinton vs. Trump matchup and views on Senate  hearings on a U.S. Supreme Court nomination. Our analyses have received as many as 5,000 shares on ABCNews.com and coverage across a range of news outlets, including Bloomberg, CNN Politics (here and here), MSNBC, CBS News, U.S. News & World Report, New York Times, Wall Street Journal,Huffington Post, New York Post, TIME, Washington Times (here and here), Seattle Times, Politico, The Hill (here, here and here), The Federalist and New Republic (here and here).