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Public Opinion Databases

  • Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)  
    ICPSR provides member colleges and universities with access to an extensive data archive. Search their data holdings by keyword or browse by thematic categories.
  • iPOLL Databank  
    iPOLL is a comprehensive, up-to-date source for U.S. nationwide public opinion providing tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935. Click on the iPOLL button to login.
  • PollingReport.com  
    Polling Report provides selected questions and summaries of responses taken from U.S. nationwide polls conducted by major pollsters, including Gallup, Harris, CNN/USA Today, Fox News, and others.
  • Polling the Nations  
    A compilation of public opinion surveys conducted in the United States and more than 80 other countries.
 

Selected Opinion Sites

  • Pew Hispanic Center
    URL: http://pewhispanic.org
    Founded in 2001, the Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Its mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation. The Center does not advocate for or take positions on policy issues.
     
  • New Immigrant Survey
    URL: http://nis.princeton.edu
    This study run by Princeton University is a nationally representative multi-cohort longitudinal study of new legal U.S. immigrants and their children. This site allows access to questionnaires, codebooks, and other documentation only. Access to the data is available via Princeton's Office of Population Research’s online data archive (http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/nis/), registration is required.
     
  • Pew Research Center For The People & The Press
    URL: http://people-press.org
    The Pew Research Center is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. They are best known for regular national surveys that measure public attentiveness to major news stories, and for their polling that charts trends in values and fundamental political and social attitudes. See the Data Archive to access the Center's survey data.
     
  • Public Agenda
    URL: http://www.publicagenda.org
    Public Agenda is a nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization that seeks to help Americans explore and understand critical public issues, including families and children, education, crime, the economy, the media, and foreign policy. You can access their research studies going back into the early 1990s on this web site. Their issue guides provide convenient synthesis of public opinion on key public issues.
     
 

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