Polling, Surveys and Public Opinion

Major Sources

• The ANES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior: "The Guide provides immediate access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow of public opinion, electoral behavior, and choice in American politics over time. It serves as a resource for political observers, policy makers, and journalists, teachers, students, and social scientists."


• Guide to public opinion poll Web sites: Polling data from around the world - A annotated set of sources published in C&RL News, October 2006 Vol. 67, No. 9 by Gary Thompson and Sean Conley


• International Social Survey Programme: The ISSP is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research. It brings together pre-existing social science projects and coordinates research goals, thereby adding a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective to the individual national studies. Currently 43 countries are members of the ISSP.


• ICPSR includes polls conducted for many national media (such as ABC, CBS, the New York Times, Washington Post) and major international series as well (such as Afrobarometer, Eurobarometer, Asiabarometer).


• iPoll : Roper Center (1942-current). Locate national US public opinion polls rich in a particular subject, iPOLL contains nearly half a million survey questions and answers asked in the US over the last 65 years by more than 150 survey organizations. Access the catalog and questionnaire directly from iPOLL.
  For a comparison of what iPoll provides in comparison with Polling the Nations and PollingReport.com see: http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll_comparison.html


• Pew Internet & American Life Project: Includes research reports based on national surveys regarding "the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.


• Polling the Nations: A comprehensive compilation of public opinion surveys, containing the full text of more than 350,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries.


• Public Opinion Poll Question Database: Conduct keyword searches on questions derived from a collection of public opinion polls, dating from the 1960s to the current. From the Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


• Zogby International: Zogby International has been tracking public opinion since 1984 in North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.


• For other sources of polls, see The University of Minnesota Libraries Public Opinion Surveys & Polling Data - Online Sources of Surveys and Polling Results.

Print Resources

For specific works, try a keyword search in the Library Catalog. Examples:

PUBLIC OPINION STATISTICS CRIME
POLLING UNITED STATES
HINT: do a reverse year sort of your search results to see the most current works first

American Attitudes: Who Thinks What about the Issues that Shape our Lives. Susan Mitchell. Ithaca: NY: New Strategist Publications, Inc., 1998.

HN 90 P8 M58 2005 PCL Reference (older editions at the same call number in PCL Stacks)

An American Profile: Opinions and Behavior, 1972-1989: opinion results on 300 high-interest issues derived from the General Social Survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. Floris W. Wood, editor. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co, 1990.

HM 261 A657 1990 PCL Reference Dept

American Public Opinion Index.
Louisville, KY.: Opinion Research Service, 1981-

Index Tables Microforms PCL Level 1 MCFICHE 9610 INDEX 1981 through 2000 V.2 USE IN LIBRARY ONLY

Gallup Poll Briefing (2006-current)

CURRENT ISSUES SHELVED BY TITLE in PCL Periodicals 2.400 and online from 2006 in Business Source Complete

Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing (2002 - 2005) Changed to: Gallup Poll Briefing and online in Business Source Complete

PCL Stacks HM 261 A1 G34 2002 APR-JUN through 2005 SEP-DEC

Gallup Poll Monthly (1996 - 2001) Merged with: Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing

PCL Stacks HM 261 A1 G34 NO.280-291 1989 through NO.436-438 2002

Gallup poll public opinion.
Wilmington, Del. / 1971-

HN 90 P8 G35 1935-current issue PCL Reference

The NORC General Social Survey: a User's Guide. Davis, James Allan. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1992.

HN 29 D414 1992 PCL Stacks

Index to International Public Opinion.(Annual). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978/79-

HM 261 I534 1978 through 1999 PCL Stacks

Polling and Survey Research Methods 1935-1979: an Annotated Bibliography. Walden, Graham R. New York : Greenwood Press, 1996.

HM 261 W35 1996 PCL Stacks

Polling and the public : what every citizen should know.
Herbert Asher. 6th ed. Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2004.

HM 1236 A75 2004 PCL Stacks
 HM 1236 A75 2007 PCL Stacks, Library Use only

Public opinion and polling around the world a historical encyclopedia. John G. Geer, editor. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004.

online ebook accessible via the library catalog