Public Opinion Polls

National Council on Public Polls
Includes useful guides to follow in assessing reliability and validity of polls. See "Principles of Disclosure" and "20 Questions a Journalist Should Ask about Poll Results."

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Includes results of public opinion surveys sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward press, politics and public policy issues.

PollingReport.com
"An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion."

Public Opinion Poll Question Database (Odum Institute for Research in Social Science)
Allows any researcher to search for specific poll questions among the more than 230,000 questions in the Institute's archive by keywords, date, study number, study title, or state.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
One of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s to the present.

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