In 1956, roughly a decade after its founding, the association had 158 members from about 20 countries;[2] by 1962, these figures had risen to approximately 200 and more than 30, respectively.
[11] Annual conference are held in a three-year cycle: with American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) in North America (Toronto 2019), in connection with either ESOMAR (European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research) or ESRA in Europe (Lisbon 2017), and in the third year somewhere else (Morocco 2018).
"[13] In 2021, WAPOR published a joint task force report with AAPOR on quality in comparative surveys.
[15] Prior recipients include social scientists Philip Converse, Louis Guttman,[16] Roger Jowell,[17] Elihu Katz,[18] Juan Linz, Seymour Martin Lipset,[19] Robert K. Merton,[20] Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann,[21][22] Sidney Verba,[23] Robert Worcester, and Daniel Yankelovich.
[24] Richard Morin, former polling director of The Washington Post, described WAPOR as "the leading professional association of pollsters working outside the United States".