There are not a lot of large sample political polling done in Scotland but there are regular UK-wide polls that allow a sub-sample of the Scottish population to be viewed. These data are reported widely around the blogosphere, so I thought it would be useful to archive the results for comparison and also to look at how these sub-samples can be combined to give a more statistically significant result. Not being an expert on political polling methodology, any constructive feedback on how to best use this data would be very welcome.
I know some will say that it is a waste of time to even bother looking at these polls, but people do, so we may as well try and make best use of them. If I keep this running up to the election, we should be able to see whether the polls proved to be any help in predicting the result.
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