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The Institute of Social and Political Opinion Research (ISPO) was founded in 2002 and it is the successor and extension of the 'Interuniversitair Steunpunt voor Politieke-Opinieonderzoek'. This former organ was created in 1990 and held the same abbreviation (ISPO). Prof dr. Marc Swyngedouw is the research director of the ISPO.
The ISPO and the Centre for Survey Methodology (CSM) form together the unit Data collection and analysis (lead by Jaak Billiet) of the Sociology department of the K.U.Leuven. The research areas of the ISPO now are fourfold: election studies, research on minorities, value and value change studies, and methodology of quantitative and qualitative research.
The ISPO has both a quantitative and qualitative focus. In every of the ISPO research projects scientific social theories are considered by using the most up to date research methodology.
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