Professional Associations
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
http://www.aapor.org
Of special interest: Sources of Variation
in Published Election Polling: A Primer, by Cliff
Zukin
http://www.aapor.org/pdfs/varsource.pdf
20 Questions A Journalist Should
Ask About Poll Results, by Sheldon R. Gawiser and
G. Evans Witt
http://www.ncpp.org/qajsa.htm
American Statistical Association
http://www.amstat.org
Of special interest: Brochures on
survey research, including a series called, "What
Is a Survey?"
http://www.amstat.org/sections/srms/whatsurvey.html
CMOR
Nonprofit organization that promotes and advocates for
survey research.
http://www.cmor.org/
Council of American Survey Research
Organizations (CASRO)
http://www.casro.org
National Council on Public Polls
(NCPP)
http://www.ncpp.org/
Research Centers and Data Archives
American Religion Data Archive
(ARDA)
A collection of data on churches and church membership,
religious professionals, and religious groups. Includes
codebooks and data files for over three hundred religion
surveys available for download.
http://www.thearda.com/arda.asp?Show=Home
Of special interest: A "create
your own survey" feature that allows users to
search or browse data files for questions they may
use in their own research.
http://www.thearda.com/arda.asp?Show=Home
Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA)
http://www.policyattitudes.org/
European Commission, public opinion
analysis sector
http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/index_en.htm
Of special interest: Excellent listing
of links for social science data archives and opinion
poll institutes throughout the world.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/links_en.htm
Health Poll Search
A collaborative effort between the Kaiser Family
Foundation and the Roper Center, this searchable database
contains more than 60,000 questions on health care-related
issues asked on surveys over the last sixty years.
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_poll/hpoll_index.cfm
Inter-University Consortium for
Political and Social Research
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
National Election Studies (NES)
http://www.umich.edu/~nes/
Of special interest: The National
Election Studies Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral
Behavior
http://www.umich.edu/~nes/nesguide/nesguide.htm
National Opinion Research Center
(NORC)
http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/
Of special interest: The General
Social Survey (GSS)
http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/projects/gensoc.asp
National Network of State Polls
(NNSP)
http://survey.rgs.uky.edu/nnsp/abtnnsp.htm
The Odum Institute for Research
in Social Science
http://www2.irss.unc.edu/irss/home.asp
The Roper Center for Public Opinion
Research
The oldest and largest archives of polling data in
the world. Fantastically comprehensive database of polls
going back to the 1930s and an enormous library of survey
datasets, available by subscription or ad hoc purchase.
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/
Of special interest: A tutorial on
the basics of public opinion polling http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/pom/polling101.html
Publications
PollingReport.com
Our competitor. Fewer articles, more data. By subscription,
but much material is accessible for free.
http://www.pollingreport.com/
Miscellaneous Survey-Related Sites
SDA: Survey Documentation and Analysis
http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502/
Many of the above links, along with many
others, are listed on links pages of other organizations
at the following URLs:
Data Directory
A guide to public opinion data published on the internet
by nonpartisan organizations, provided by the Washington
Post. Particularly good listing of links for state polls.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/datadir.htm#acad
European Commission, public opinion
analysis sector
http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/links_en.htm
Harvard Opinion Research Program
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/horp/
Monclair State University Harry
A. Sprague Library
"Public Opinion & Survey Resources on the
Internet" is a very comprehensive and well-organized
list of links to survey data and polling-related websites,
guides to such data and sites, sites that focus on particular
topics, and sites that offer information about survey
methodology and public opinion practice.
http://library.montclair.edu/Rodriguez/Public%20Opinion%20Guide.html
Richard Kimber's Political Science
Resources
Who is Richard Kimber? Who knows? His website, described
as "a gateway to most significant resources relevant
to the study of politics and government," is great,
offering a staggering number (over 3,000) and range
of useful links to websites from all over the world
(plus a blog containing the site owner's own unabashedly
opinionated comments on current issues in Great Britain
and elsewhere).
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
Of special interest: A long list
of links to data archives, polling organizations,
and other resources of interest to the field of public
opinion research, including links pages posted on
other websites.
http://www.thearda.com/arda.asp?Show=Home
A page of links to websites on political
thought, many of which collectively offer the full
texts of thousands of original works on the subject.
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/thought.htm
University of Michigan Documents
Center: Public and Lobby Opinion on Legislative Issues
Includes links to a huge amount of government information
and records, websites of and information about lobby
groups, and public opinion data. Some of the resources
are restricted to University of Michigan users, and
a few of the links are dead, but it is still a great
list.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/opinion.html
University of Kansas Communications
Studies Department
An excellent listing of websites for public opinion
centers worldwide. Academic survey sites are rated on
a scale of one to four stars.
http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/po/
Other useful websites
A Journalist's Guide to the Internet
A terrific collection of links to information resources
and reference tools sorted into sixteen categories,
including politics, courts and the law, federal government,
records and FOIA, online newspapers, search tools, and
business and nonprofits.
http://reporter.umd.edu/
FedStats
A gateway to statistics from over 100 United States
federal government agencies
http://www.fedstats.gov/
Links from bibliography
Public Perspective
search page
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/pp_subj.html
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