Help - Finding Public Opinion Polls

Online:

Lexis Nexis Click here to go the the "L" section of the Databases listings to find Lexis Nexis. From the Lexis Nexis home page, select Reference, and then select Polls & Surveys.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research includes survey questions back to 1936. Although the database is compiled by the Roper Center, it contains questions from other U.S. organizations such as Harris, Gallup, National Opinion Research Center, and major news establishments.  The survey questions you locate include responses, which are occasionally broken down by respondents' demographics. This page allows considerable flexibility for tailoring your query.  You can search for terms in the text of the document or at the question level, limit by the size and composition of the population surveyed, and search for specific polling sponsors or organization.

Public Opinion Polls on the Web

The following guides have a good selection of freely accessible websites where one can find public opinion poll data:

Richter Library, Univ of Miami's Communications Subject Guide: Public Web Sites (see Polling and Public Opinion, farther down the page) Public Opinion Polls (Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research)

In the Library:
The Library subscribes to a few publications that contain public opinion poll data. Click here to perform the kewyord search "public opinon" in the periodicals area of the Library Catalog.

The Harris Poll (one current year plus one past year) is kept in the call number area of HN90 in the second floor floor Reference Collection..

The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935-1977 [CD-ROM] This product has 62 years of Gallup data searchable by keyword. Available on a single CD-ROM workstation on the sixth floor.

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