New Database: the Roper Center's iPOLL!
New! The Tri-College Libraries have all begun subscribing to the iPOLL database, from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research!
This database provides access to more than half a million public opinion poll questions (and answers!) from 1935 through the present time. You can search iPOLL by keyword, topic, polling organization, or date. Questions come from all the major polling organizations including Gallup, Harris, Pew, and the major news agencies. All polls have U.S. national adult samples; neither state samples nor foreign samples are included.
Our subscription also grants us access to RoperExpress, a service that allows you to download the original poll dataset so that you can conduct your own statistical analysis of the responses. These downloadable datasets are available for 75% of the polls in the Roper Center collection.
Give iPOLL a try and see what you think! (And while you're at it, take a look at another database of public opinion: Polling the Nations, which includes foreign, state, and local-level samples. Polling the Nations covers surveys from 1986 to the present.)
