Opinion polling on the presidency of Emmanuel Macron has been regularly conducted by French pollsters since the start of his five–year term.
IFOP–Fiducial publishes two polls each month: one on the popularity of the executive and the second on various political personalities, including Emmanuel Macron and the Prime Minister.
Though the composition of panels of respondents of every pollster are determined by the quota method as defined by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, differences in methodology between each political barometer result in significant different results between pollsters.
These differences range from the sample size, method of collecting respondents (with Kantar Sofres using face–to–face interviews, IFOP using phone interviews and BVA recruiting its panel by phone) and significant differences in question wording.
According to Frédéric Dabi, director of the IFOP, the difference between the two political barometers produced by his institute–one conducted for Le Journal du Dimanche, the other for Paris Match and Sud Radio–is that the latter asks about the "action" of the executive, and is therefore a more "short–termist" political question, and as a result is significantly more volatile than the other survey.