airbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates (FMM&A), a California corporation, has specialized in public policy-oriented opinion research since the Company was first organized in 1981. FMM&A offers a wide range of opinion research, communications strategy and consulting services to assist political candidates, ballot measure committees, corporations, non-profit organizations and government agencies. FMM&A opinion research services include:

Random-digit-dial (RDD) & listed sample public opinion telephone surveys in English, Spanish & other languages

Mail and Internet surveys in English, Spanish and other languages

In-depth executive interviews and employee/membership research

Focus groups in English and/or Spanish

Communications strategy consulting

Consumer market research

Customer/citizen satisfaction and community assessment research

Public-sector community relations and outreach program development and implementation

Advertising and media testing using Audience Response System "Perception Analyzer" technology

FMM&A's principal business is to provide timely, custom-designed public opinion analysis to assist its clients in making decisions. To achieve these goals, FMM&A's staff is multi-talented and works as a team to assure the completion of quality opinion analysis in a timely manner. Each of FMM&A's principals has over twenty-five years of experience as a public opinion analyst and consultant. In addition, FMM&A's data collection and sampling sub-contractors are closely supervised and pre-qualified by FMM&A to render immediate, high-quality service.

FMM&A prides itself in delivering personal service to its clients, who are assured of ongoing contact with the firm's principals and senior personnel. FMM&A designs and manages the entire research process including research instrument design, sampling or recruitment plan, and data collection, analysis and interpretation. In addition, FMM&A has Spanish-language capability on its staff that it applies to all research projects involving populations with significant Spanish-speaking segments.

On an annual basis, FMM&A conducts as many as three hundred surveys and one hundred and fifty focus groups, in addition to providing ongoing strategic consultation to key clients. FMM&A research and analysis frequently focuses on issues of major economic and social concern, including communications technology; energy development, conservation and regulation; transportation planning and finance, health care; environmental quality; natural resource conservation and development; public finance; growth and property development, and the implications of public policy for ethnic and other demographic groups such as children and the elderly.