Public Opinion Polls

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Best Places to Start

PollingReport.com
Location: http://www.pollingreport.com/
"An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion."

Topics at a Glance / Roper Center
Location: http://roperweb.ropercenter.uconn.edu/cgi-bin/hsrun.exe/Roperweb/pom/pom.htx;start=HS_pom_list

Recent National Polling / National Journal Policy Central
Location: ALADIN
Hover over Poll Track in the menu on the right and click on Recent National Polls. Poll results from the last month, from the National Journal Policy Central.

Pew Research Center for People and the Press
Location: http://people-press.org/

WorldPublicOpinion.org
Location: http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/
A publication of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland.

CBS New Polls
Location: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/opinion/polls/main500160.shtml

Pollster.com
Location: http://pollster.com/

Online Collections of Survey Results

Polling the Nations. 1986 to current.
Location: ALADIN
Compilation of questions and responses from over 6,500 surveys from the U.S. and over sixty other countries. It is the continuation of American Public Opinion Index, 1981-1997 (REF HM 261 .A463) and American Public Opinion Data, 1981-1993 (in microform, in the Microforms Room in the 3rd floor).

iPoll (Roper Center). 1935 to current.
Location: ALADIN
Click on "iPoll Login" and the search page of the database will open. Archive of US nationwide public opinion data, including downloadable data sets.

Public Opinion Surveys. The Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, Cornell University.
Location: http://www.ciser.cornell.edu/info/polls.shtml
Useful for U.S. surveys with a state or regional emphasis.

Public Opinion Poll Question Database.
Location: http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/pollsearch.html
Compiled and maintained by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina.

ProQuest Research Library Plus. Dates vary, partial full text.
Location: ALADIN
In the first search box put the phrase 'polls & surveys OR public opinion'; search it in the 'Subject' field. Put the topic of the poll in the second box. Use this index to find full text newspaper and journal articles that contain results of polls and surveys.

Academic Search Premier. Dates vary, partial full text.
Location: ALADIN
In the first search box put the phrase 'public opinion polls'; search it in the 'SU Subject Terms' field. Put the topic of the poll in the second box. Use this index to find full text newspaper and journal articles that contain results of polls and surveys.

Guide to public opinion poll Web sites: Polling data from around the world.
Location: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2006/october06/opinionpoll.cfm
Maintained by Gary Thompson and Sean Conley, on the Association of College & Research Libraries web site.

Public Opinion and Polling Around the World. 2004
Location: Online or at Ref HM 1236 .P83 2004
Organized by country. Discussion of polling techniques around the world. Some poll results.

Historical Data

The Gallup Poll Monthly. 1989 to 2002
Location: GELMAN Stacks NON-CIRCULATING HM 261 .A1 G34
Results of polls and surveys. It is indexed online in ProQuest Research Library Plus (back to 1992, citation only) and in PAIS (back to 1977, citation only). For an index to issues earlier then 1977, use the paper version of PAIS (REF Z 7163 .P9). Earlier titles are Gallup Opinion Index (Stacks HM 261 .A1 G34) and Gallup Report (REF HM 261 .A1 G34, 1981-1989).

The Gallup Poll. 1935 to 2006.
Location: REF HN 90 .P8 G34
Annual compilation of results of polls and surveys of the year. Each poll includes an analysis, which puts the results into context and provides background information. Use the Cumulative Index 1935-1997 to track the change in public opinion on a particular topic through the years.

Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion. 2005
Location: Ref HN 90 .P8 P645 2005
Organized by topic. Useful to track changes in public opinion over time.

Index to International Public Opinion. 1979 to 1999
Location: HM 261 .I552
Results of polls and surveys worldwide, indexed by subject and by country.

The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls, France, 1939, 1944-1975.
Location: REF HN 440 .P8 G35

The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls, Great Britain, 1937-1975.
Location: REF HN 400 .P8 G34

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