Roper Center Public Opinion Archives and iPOLL Databank
(Access: Online - Data Archive Membership)
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. Its collection now includes 17,000 datasets and includes responses from millions of individuals on a vast range of topics. The Center focuses on surveys conducted by the news media and commercial polling firms. However, it also holds many academic surveys, including important historical collections from the National Opinion Research Corporation and Princeton University's Office of Public Opinion Research. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented.
Producer: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Access: Connect to Roper from the
UC Davis campus
- From 'Quick Links' choose 'iPOLL Login' to search the iPOLL question-level databank.
- From 'Quick Links' choose 'Search For Datasets' to search the Center's on-line catalog of studies.
Access:
Connect to Roper from off campus via the University Library VPN
- From 'Electronic Databases A-Z' search for 'Roper' and click on the link provided.
The data collections provided by the IGA Library & Data Archive are licensed for campus access. In some cases, access is restricted to UC Davis faculty, staff, and students with valid university computing accounts (UC Davis user id / Kerberos password). In other cases, access is restricted to the campus network. Data are made available with the understanding that they are to be used for not-for-profit academic research only and are not to be copied or otherwise made available to any third party. All data used for research should be given an appropriate citation in any resulting published work.
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