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Polls and Statistics: Web Resources for Polls

This guide focuses on polling results for news, political, social, economic, and cultural issues and trends, as well as sources of hard statistical data for national and international demographics, social, economic and political issues.

Polling Basics

U.S. Public Opinion and Polling Data Online

U.S Polling Data

(From Cornell Polling and Public Opinion Sources Libguide)

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes; and trends;shaping;the world. " [About Pew Research Center]

           Polling data related to U.S. Election with "all U.S. major media exit polls dating back to the first in 1972..."

"Since 1965, the Odum Institute has operated the Louis Harris Data Center, the national depository for publicly available survey data collected by Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. More than 1,000 Harris polls from as early as 1958 are archived at the Center and contain over 160,000 questions asked of more than 1,200,000 respondents."

 

International Polling Data

The Pew Global Attitudes & Trends Question Database includes survey questions from all Pew Global Attitudes polls since 1999. To search for a question, enter any keyword or combination of words and/or select a country or study of interest.

           Datasets from 100+ countries. Datasets can be downloaded in STATA, SPSS, CSV and ASCII formats.

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