Data Librarian
Gallup Microdata
Are you looking to use Gallup World Poll or US Daily Tracker microdata for statistical analysis? If yes, visit Gallup US Daily and World Poll Microdata.
If you are looking to view general statistics and trends, read on to learn more about Gallup Analytics!
Questions? Reach out to the librarian listed here.
Gallup Analytics - Trends in Question Responses
- Gallup Analytics This link opens in a new window
Gallup Analytics provides trends in question responses in a few ways:
- U.S. Dailies cover the United States from 2009 to the present. You can view the entire US (aggregate) or select an MSA. (Note that data are not available for each MSA or for each year.) You can learn more about how Gallup Daily Tracking works.
- The World Poll covers the globe from 2006 to the present. You can view the Worldwide (aggregate) results or select a region or a country. You can learn more about how the Gallup World Poll works.
- Gallup Poll Social Series covers the United States with special topics. Right now, it only offers the Environment going back to 2001. You can learn more about how the Gallup Poll Social Series works.
The Gallup Analytics site offers topline polling results. (It does not include access to microdata.) You can get idea about general trends in polling over the years for specific geographies. The U.S. Dailies and World Poll topics include:
- Business and Economics
- Citizen Engagement
- Communications and Technology
- Education and Families
- Environment and Energy
- Food and Shelter
- Government and Politics
- Health
- Law and Order
- Other (More)
- Religion and Ethics
- Social Issues
- Well-being
- Work
Gallup Brain - Question Responses in Individual Polls
Gallup Brain offers individual responses to Gallup polls from 1936 to the present. You can jump to surveys by decade or search for words within questionnaires to find polling of interest. You can also use the "Create a Trend" feature to locate all other questions with the same response scale. (Link works best when you are on Grounds, using a VPN, or already signed in with NetBadge.)
- Early Gallup Polls, 1936-1945More than 300 hundred early Gallup polls reformatted, recoded, and re-weighted by Berinsky and Schickler to compensate for the non-probability (quota-controlled) sampling used before the 1950s. (Link works best when you are on Grounds, using a VPN, or already signed in with NetBadge.)
Other Poll Databases
- iPoll This link opens in a new windowQuestions from U.S. nationwide polls, 1935-present. Includes many Gallup polls. Links out to RoperEXPRESS to download microdata for individual polls and to RoperExplorer to create on-the-fly crosstabulations.
- Polling the Nations This link opens in a new windowIndividual public opinion questions with topline frequency responses, gathered from an enormous variety of sources, including polling organizations, marketing organizations, and press reports.
Gallup Poll Reference Works
- The Gallup PollPrint. Annual: 1935-2015. Basic Gallup output: brief descriptions with individual polls, with questions and topline respsones. (This is essentially covered by Gallup Brain, see more on this page.)
- The Gallup Poll BriefingNews coverage of Gallup poll findings. Recent issues are offered daily. Good for providing context to topline statistics. 1996-present.