Field Research Corporation
| Mervin Field | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 11, 1921 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States |
| Died | June 8, 2015 (aged 94) Mill Valley, California, United States |
| Occupation | Pollster |
| Known for | Founder, Field Research Corporation |
Mervin Field (March 11, 1921 – June 8, 2015) was an American pollster of public opinion in the state of California.
Field was born in 1921, the youngest of five children, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and graduated from Princeton High School in 1938. His parents were Jewish emigrants from Russia. His subsequent formal education was limited to a few months each at Rutgers night school, the University of Missouri and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. His first experience with survey research was in his high school junior year, when in a chance occurrence he was introduced to the polling pioneer, Dr. George Gallup. Field’s first survey was in determining student preferences for his high school senior class president. Prior to World War II, Field worked for Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) and the Gallup Poll in Princeton, New Jersey.
He married Virginia Fallon in 1949, and later divorced. Field was married to Marilyn Hammer from 1957 until her death in 2006.
Field died in 2015, of natural causes.
The Field Research Corporation (FRC) is a commercial consumer and opinion research practice operating locally, regionally and nationally.
The Field Poll is an independent, nonpartisan public opinion news service, with a focus on California. As of late 2009, it has published more than 2300 reports. It relies on financial support from newspapers and television stations, the University of California, the California State University system, and various non-profit foundations, not from political candidates or interests.
Since 1956, the Poll has deposited its survey data with the University of California and California State University campuses, to make them available for scholars, media, and public policy makers. It is a unique and rich archive that is used in political science, journalism. sociology, and survey research methodology courses.
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