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Public Opinion Polls

Major U.S. media polls

ABC News Polling Unit (1999-present)
Associated Press/IPSOS Poll (2003-present)
CBS News Polls (Current year)
Fox News Polls (2005-present)
L.A. Times Polls (1996-present)
New York Times Polls (2002-present)
NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Polls (1999-present)
Time Magazine/SRBI Polls (2004-present)
Washington Post Polls (1997-present)

Major U.S. commercial and nonprofit polling organizations

Harris Interactive: Provides access to the well-known Harris polls back to 1998. Users can search by keyword or date. Results are mostly present in the form of news releases, analysis articles, and individual questions with responses
Kaiser Family Foundation: Access to questions in PDF format to surveys about health and health-care issues back to 1994.
Pew Research Center: Acts as a gateway for other project Web sites being conducted by Pew Research, such as the Pew Study of People and the Press (surveys back to 1987) and Stateline. Tabs at the top of the page may be used to access different kinds of reports and analyses.
Public Agenda: Public Agenda's mission is to make citizens aware of policy issues from a nonpartisan perspective and the understand the public point of view. Use the "Issue Guides" to find facts, view different opinions, look at common misconceptions, and locate lists of key pollsters for the issues. Click on "Research Studies" for other data. Free registration is required for some data.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research: The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented.; Access to Roper data is through Lexis Nexis. Select News on the top menu bar. In the column on the right, under News Searches, select Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
Survey Research Center: For more than 50 years, the Survey Research Center (University of Michigan) has been a leader in the collection or analysis of data from scientific sample surveys. Among its current projects are 1) Survey of Consumer Attitudes; 2) Panel Study of Income Dynamics; 3) Monitoring the Future study of high school youth; 4) Health and Retirement Study; 5) Retirement Research Center; 6) National Survey of Family Growth; and 7) Youth, Education, and Society program. Tables, charts, and reports are included. Registration is required for some data.
Zogby: An international polling firm established in 1984, Zogby provides current news releases and articles from third-party sources that feature data from Zogby polls, and "Trends over Time" providing users with time-line data relating to current topics in the media. Registered users are allowed to view survey results.

Polling data archives and databases

American Religion Data Archive: Founded in 1997, the targeted audience and the data collection both now include American and international surveys and results. You can view questionnaires and also search for questions by keyword and then click on "analyze results" to view responses.
Canadian Opinion Research Archive: Makes available Canadian commercial and independent surveys dating from 1973 forward. Recent and popular surveys are searchable by date, broad topic, and province. Full access to archives requires registration.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR): Established in 1962, ICPSR maintains a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. The majority of the data are down loadable only by individuals at ICPSR's member institutions. The remaining data are made available through the "Special Topics Archives," many of which are federally funded. Data-PASS funded from the Library of Congress provides access to opinion polls, voting records, and large-scale surveys.
LAPOP-Latin American Public Opinion Project: Surveys the citizens of Latin America on democratic values and their behaviors related to democracy. PDF reports from the survey archives are available on the Web site. Data sets are available from the center for an administrative charge.
Public Opinion Poll Question Database: Coverage includes Harris, Southern Poll, state polls, the Knight Foundation Community Polls from before 1970 to the present, depending on the topic. Searchable by keyword to obtain survey question text. Results for specific questions available by "displaying all question information."
UK Data Archive-Major Studies: A listing of major surveys of British and European public opinion conducted by governmental agencies and social organizations.
World Public Opinion.org (WPO): In-depth information and analysis on public opinion from around the world on international issues. Covers national, cross-national, and international surveys. Summary reports of survey results. Also includes Americans & the World, a source on U.S> public opinion on international issues and The Digest, which provides analyses of polling on various international topics.

International and foreign polls

Afrobarometer-Africa Public Opinion Research: Founded in 1993, this nonpartisan research project conducts regular surveys of African opinions on a wide range of topics. Surveys, survey results, briefing papers, and working papers are available.
Asiabarometer: Comparative survey covering East, Southeast, South and Central Asia.
European Public Opinion Analysis: Sponsored by the European Commission since 1973, this site provides current and past summaries and full reports from the Eurobarometer general and topical survey series as well as links to other European polls.
FOM: Public Opinion Foundation (Russia): Established in 1992, the center provides a weekly edition highlighting selected Russian polls as well as a database where one can locate and view responses to questions.
Japanese Data Archive: JPOLL contains more than 10,000 public opinion questions and the respective responses from Japan's major survey research sources. Users can search for public opinion questions using keywords, topics, dates, and organizations. Free registration required.
Latinobarometro: An annual survey of public opinion in 18 countries in Latin America. Coverage is from 1995 to 2004. To analyze the results online requires a password, but PDF summaries of the survey results are available under the "Press" pull down.
Mansfield Asian Opinion Poll Database: Opinion polls on key policy-related issues from major media organizations in Japan and South Korea. Coverage is from 2004 to 2006.
World Values Survey: Provides access to tables and graphs showing national or comparative survey results for selected countries to the four waves of the World Values Survey conducted from 1981 to 2004.

Other resource lists

CISER Data Archive - Public Opinion Surveys (Cornell University): Good annotated list of sources for the actual text or results of public opinion surveys, including U.S. national and regional surveys and cross-national polls.

Last revised August 31, 2007