Public Opinion 

Provides online data analysis of the results from surveys conducted in different countries and by different organizations.

More than 136,000 questions and answers from The Gallup Poll since 1935.

Database of polls taken on a variety of subjects all over the world.

Search for survey datasets available from the Roper Center. Those marked with an X in a diagonal box are available for immediate downloading via RoperExpress; to obtain others, contact the Data Librarian.

Databases of approx. half a million public opinion survey questions and responses, going back to 1935.

"...contains links to the Center's survey data which are currently available on the web. Survey data are released six months after the reports are issued..."

Major data archive, contains public opinion studies among many others.

CD-ROM product, possible alternative to Gallup Brain (for the time period it covers).

"Since its inception in 2002, Pew Global Attitudes Project has surveyed more than 200,000 people in 55 countries. This interactive database provides users with the ability to access key trends on questions ranging from attitudes toward the U.S. to people's assessments of their own lives and views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day."

"This Web-based application synthesizes Gallup's global intelligence to help users understand the strengths and challenges of the world's countries and regions more thoroughly than ever before."

"Health Poll Search is a comprehensive, searchable archive of health-related public opinion questions that allows users to know what Americans think and have thought about health issues over time."

Since the 1970s, Mitchell Seligson and his colleagues and students have systematically surveyed the citizens of Latin America on their political views—specifically on democratic values and their behaviors related to democracy. Yale is a repository for LAPOP datasets.

Yale users have access to the datasets from a number of surveys conducted in Eastern European nations by the
Centre for the Study of Public Policy.

"The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) was established in 1992 with the purpose of giving public opinion a greater voice in international relations."

A partnership of the Roper Center and the US-Japan Foundation to make Japanese public opinion information available.

"The Latin American Databank at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research locates, acquires, processes and archives public opinion surveys conducted by the survey research community in Latin America..."

"SurveyUSA is an independent, non-partisan, full-service opinion research firm that conducts scientific research for media, government, and private-sector clients" and makes some commissioned polling results available, divided into the areas of election tracking, job approval, and breaking news.

by Gary Thompson and Sean Conley, published in C&RL News, Vol. 67, No. 9, October 2006.

"A roundup of the top numbers from the latest national polls on campaigns, hot topics and more."

A confederation of organizations that conduct state-level surveys.