Reference Resources: Public Opinion Surveys

American Attitudes: What Americans Think About The Issues That Shape Their Lives
Fifth edition (2008) provides a broad overview of American public opinion, covering such areas as religion, race, family and friends, sexual attitudes, and more. You may view a copy of the table of contents.
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Gallup Poll
Reports and analysis.
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Guide To Public Opinion Poll Web Sites
Compilation of sites is particularly useful for identifying free-of-charge Internet sites containing general public opinion polls.
Please remember Leyburn Library subscribes to several major commercial public opinion services that are not accessible through this compilation.
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Harris Poll
Access to results of weekly public opinion surveys "on a wide variety of subjects including politics, the economy, healthcare, foreign affairs, science and technology, sports and entertainment, and lifestyles" from 2004 to date.
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Inter-University Consortium For Political And Social Research (ICPSR)
"Search and browsing access to abstracts and data sets in the world's largest archive of computerized social science data." For assistance in acquiring data-sets, contact Carol Hansen Karsch.
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Pew Research Center
Nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It includes seven projects: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press; Project for Excellence in Journalism; Stateline.org; Pew Internet & American Life Project; Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life; Pew Hispanic Center; Pew Global Attitudes Project; and Pew Social and Demographic Trends.
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Poll Track
This online service is provided by the National Journal and focuses on current U.S. political issues.
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Polling The Nations
Compilation of results of over 500,000 questions from 14,000+ public opinion surveys, conducted in the U.S.and 100 other countries (includes such non-U.S. services as Latinobarometer). Chronological coverage extends from 1986 to the current year.
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PollingReport.com
Polling Report is a periodical devoted to publishing the latest surveys of American public opinion. The PollingReport.comdatabase is updated whenever new polls are released.
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Program On International Policy Attitudes
The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) carries out research on public opinion on foreign policy and international issues by conducting nationwide polls, focus groups and comprehensive reviews of polling conducted by other organizations.
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Public Agenda
Nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization.
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Public Opinion And Polling Around The World
Overview of public opinion from its roots in colonial America to its role in today's emerging democracies. More than 100 entries prepared by top scholars examine the 200-year history of public opinion, measurement methodologies with an emphasis on telephone interviews and Internet polls, and key figures like George Gallup and Elmo Roper, who created their own polling systems.
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Washington Post Opinion Surveys And Polls
Data and analysis from the Post's "vault" of political polling.
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