Library Guides: Statistics & Data for the Social Sciences: A Guide: Polls & Surveys

Major U.S. Polling Resources

iPoll This link opens in a new window
iPoll is a finding aid to locate national US public opinion polls. iPOLL contains half a million survey questions and answers asked in the US over the last 65 years by more than 150 survey organizations. NOTE: You will need to create/register a user account and profile using a Tulane.edu email address to access this database.

Gallup Poll News (in Lexis-Nexis Academic)
Press releases and news based on polling from Gallup, a major source of public opinion research. For original Gallup polling data, use iPoll.
Harris Poll Interactive
Harris Poll provides some free polling data covering a wide range of issues and industries including healthcare, technology, public affairs, energy, telecommunications, financial services, insurance, media, retail, restaurant, and consumer package goods.
American National Election Studies
The ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. ANES is a collaboration of Stanford University and the University of Michigan, with funding by the National Science Foundation.
Polling Report.com
An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion. Most data free without subscription.

Roper iPoll This link opens in a new window
Provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, Roper iPoll is the largest collection of public opinion poll data with results from 1935 to the present. Roper iPoll contains nearly 800,000 questions and over 23,000 datasets from both U.S. and international polling firms. Surveys cover any number of topics including, social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, science, the environment, and much more. When available, results charts, demographic crosstabs and full datasets are provided for immediate download.

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
An independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. Best known for regular national surveys that measure public attentiveness to major news stories, and polling.

General Social Survey (GSS)
The GSS contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest.
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Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. The GSS takes the pulse of America, and is a unique and valuable resource. It has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades.
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-95 school year.
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The Add Health cohort has been followed into young adulthood with four in-home interviews, the most recent in 2008, when the sample was aged 24-32.
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979
The NLSY79 is a nationally representative sample of 12,686 young men and women who were 14-22 years old when they were first surveyed in 1979. These individuals were interviewed annually through 1994 and are currently interviewed on a biennial basis.
World Values Survey
WVS is an opinion survey similar to the GSS in questions and topics addressed, but includes representative samples from about 90 countries ranging from post-industrial democracies to developing nations.

Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) This link opens in a new window
Formerly known as AmericasBarometer, Vanderbilt University's Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) archives datasets of surveys of democratic public opinion and behavior in the Americas using national probability samples of voting-age adults. Dataset coverage includes 2002 – present.
Latinobarometro This link opens in a new window
Latinobarometer is a public opinion survey that applies annually around 20,000 interviews in 18 countries in Latin America representing more than 600 million people.