The Ten Commandments of Polling
The Gallup Organization
The Gallup Organization's site offers access to press releases and special
reports on current issues and trends. Selected historical data going back
as far as 1937 is available. There is also an archives of selected
material.
Carolina Pulse
Poll.
The Pulse Poll, a telephone survey of Chapel Hill and
Carrboro, is conducted at least once a year by the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Designed to assess opinion of issues of
interest to local government, the poll also features input from JOMC
students.
The Institute for
Research In Social Science's Public Opinion Item Index (The Odum Institute)
The Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill maintains a variety of
national and statewide public opinion poll data which is available
through their Data Holdings Catalog. Included is the
exclusive national depository for all survey data collected since 1965 by
Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. The Harris
Polls, together with the 7 additional public opinion surveys that make up
the collection, are all organized into IRSS's Public
Opinion Item Index which allows any researcher connected to the Internet
to view questions and frequency distributions of
state and national polls, as well as to perform a complete keyword search
of the entire Index.
The Pew Research Center: The
People & The Press
The Pew Research Center for The People & The Press published 25 reports
in 1996, based on interviews of more than 21,000 people from all walks of
life, across the U.S. and the political spectrum. This web site offers a
look at the data collected and trends identified. It is a useful site for
those seeking patterns in news media usage.
The Public Opinion Laboratory
The Public Opinion Laboratory is an interdisciplinary survey research
center located on the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University.
General Social Survey 1972-2000
Cumulative Codebook (searchable by key word in polling questions)
Public
Opinion on Legislative Issues
European
Public Opinion
Marist Institute for Public Opinion
(MIPO)
Yankelovich Partners Public Opinion Polling
The Roper Center for Public
Opinion Research
Reuters/Zogby National Polls
Polling Report
An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public
opinion.