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How do I find public opinion polls?

Polling 101 (The Roper Center for Public Opinion, U. Conn)
A tutorial on the fundamentals of public opinion polling--provides definitions, examples, and explanations

Major U.S. News Media Polls

• ABC News Polling Unit
• The Associated Press/Ipsos News Center
• CBS News Polls
• Fox News Polls
• L.A. Times Polls
• New York Times Polls
• NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Polls
• Time Magazine/SRBI Poll Archive
• Washington Post Polls (1998-present)

Various U.S. Polls & Issues

• Gallup Brain (limited free access to recent articles and questionnaires)
• The George Washington University Battleground Poll (collaborative bi-partisan survey by Republican strategist Ed Goeas of The Tarrance Group and Democrat Celinda Lake of Lake Snell Perry and Associates)
• Harris Interactive (search Harris polls back to 1998)
• National Organization for Research (NORC)(U. of Chicago)
• Pew Research Center
• Public Agenda
• Public Opinion Poll Question Database (Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, UNC)
  Includes Harris, Souther Poll, state polls, the Knight Founcation Community Polls from before 1970 to the present
• Quinnipiac U. Polling Institute
• Roper Center: Public Opinion Matters (subscription required except for the links on this page)
• Zogby

Specific U.S. Polls & Issues

• ARDA (Association of Religion Data Archives)
• Kaiser Polls (health and health care issues back to 1994 from Henry J. Kaiser Foundation)

Foreign Polls & Issues

• Afrobaromeer--Africa Public Opinion Research Home Page
• Asiabarometer (Interuniversity Consortium for Political & Social Research)
• European Public Opinion Analysis (European Commission)
• FOM: Public Opinion Foundation (Russia)
• Japanese Data Archive
• Latinobarometro (1995-2004)(survey results from 18 countries are free under "Press")
• Mansfield Asian Opinion Poll Database (Japan and South Korea)(2004-2006)
• Questionbank (Qb): Social Surveys and Research Questionnaires Online (United Kingdom)
• UK Data Archive: Major Studies (United Kingdom)
• World Public Opinion (WPO)
• World Values Survey (1981-2004)

Other sites on public opinion polls

• CISER Data Archive--Public Opinion Surveys (Cornell U.)
• Public Opinion Polls--Research Guide (U. of Pennsylvania)

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