Research Guides: SOCL 398: Senior Conference (BMC): Statistics & Polls

Statistical Sources

General Social Survey
The General Social Survey (GSS) is "the only full-probability, personal-interview survey designed to monitor changes in both social characteristics and attitudes currently being conducted in the United States." You can use the data explorer and download data collected since 1972.

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) Data Archive
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Provides access to an archive of online social science data, training facilities in basic and advanced techniques of quantitative social analysis. Provides a comprehensive list of ICPSR resources and services, information on membership and governance, links to national data archives affiliated with ICPSR, and contact information.
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A single entry portal for UN databases. Find data series by searching or browsing by theme. Includes Country Profiles, Advanced Search and Glossaries to aid research. All countries and a wide range of themes are covered.

Harvard Dataverse
Dataverse is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows you to replicate others' work more easily. The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) collaborates with the Harvard University Library and Harvard University Information Technology organization to make the installation of the Harvard Dataverse openly available to researchers and data collectors worldwide from all disciplines, to deposit data. Information on submitting data.
Odum Institute (University of North Carolina)
In its Dataverse Network, the Odum Institute has many poll results done at the state-level.

Social Explorer
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Offers access to reports and interactive maps for the U.S. Census (1790-present), World Development Indicators (1960-2013), and Eurostat (European Union data), among others. A project of Queens College, sponsored by the New York Times and the National Science Foundation.

Gallup
Reports, infographics and articles from Gallup opinion polls. Does not include dataset downloads or survey methodology files.
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center is a think think that conducts public opinion polling and other social science research. Their Pew Global section contains research with an international focus. Several of the Publications sub-topics include a Question Search, and downloadable datasets.

Roper Center Public Opinion Archives (iPOLL)
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Find results from US national public opinion surveys (1935-present). Includes public opinion research from 120+ countries. Use this database to find polls from Gallup, Pew, and more.

You can:
- Search iPOLL to find individual survey questions and answers
- Compare public opinion over time
- Find US election exit poll results
- Download full datasets for surveys curated by the Roper Center
Statista: The Leading Statistics Portal
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Provides access to selected statistics and studies of over 600 industries gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources from 2007 to the present.