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The iPOLL Databank …

  • Is the best and most comprehensive resource for locating US public opinion polls
  • Contains one-half million questions—Explore an iPOLL question-level text example
  • Covers over 70 years of US national polls and more than 150 survey firms
  • Broad topics from politics and policy matters to personal tastes and behaviors
  • Search functions designed specifically for survey questions
    • Search question texts, responses, topics, dates and survey organizations
    • Search within results
    • Sorting options
  • Provides direct links to survey questionnaires and additional metadata
  • Additional access benefits are available with full Roper Center Membership, including instant dataset download through RoperExpress.

How can iPOLL help you?


To find out how iPOLL can best fit your needs roll over the pictures below.

Faculty Researcher:
  • Find information about public opinion on a wide range of topics
  • Identify datasets for more detailed analysis
  • Construct time series of change in public opinion
Public Policy Analyst:
  • Strengthen proposals with hard data and long-term trends
  • Sharpen questionnaire design by researching tested questions
  • Develop political insight through a stronger understanding of public opinion on key issues.
Journalist:
  • Quickly find poll numbers to supplement your stories
  • Evaluate the public's opinion of critical public policy issues
  • Put today's poll reports into an historical context by looking back at nearly 70 years of survey questions
Pollster:
  • Provides a basis for new projects in terms of instrument construction, issue framing
  • Investigate historical context
  • Helps generate ideas and new approaches to policy issues
  • Evaluate what's been covered and discovered, but also what has not been covered
Political Analyst:
  • Develop strategic insights through a stronger understanding of public opinion on key issues
  • Strengthen proposals with hard data and long-term trends
  • Sharpen questionnaire design by researching tested questions.
Public Affairs:
  • Strengthen proposals with hard data and long-term trends
  • Develop political insight through a stronger understanding of public opinion on key issues
  • Get more value out of surveys for clients by researching tested questions.

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