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Best Databases for Surveys & Polls
- Center for Survey ResearchSurveys and publications on Virginia topics.
- General Social Survey"The GSS is widely regarded as the single best source of data on societal trends."
- Gallup Analytics This link opens in a new windowGallup Analytics is an online platform that provides subscribers with access to nearly a century of U.S. data and a decade of global tracking data known as the Gallup World Poll.
- ICPSR This link opens in a new windowThe Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. Users may view documentation, download raw data, and search a bibliography of data-related lit
- iPoll This link opens in a new windowiPOLL contains nearly a half-million questions from surveys conducted since 1935 by academic, commercial, and media survey organizations, including CNN, Gallup, AP, the Wall Street Journal, and many others. From the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
- ISSP - International Social Survey ProgrammeSimilar to GSS, but with international data. "The ISSP is a continuing annual programme of cross-national collaboration on surveys covering topics important for social science research."
- NexisUni This link opens in a new windowLexisNexis indexes many polls and surveys. Try a search like "poll and obama and mccain and women."
- New Immigrant Survey - Princeton University"The New Immigrant Survey (NIS) is a nationally representative multi-cohort longitudinal study of new legal immigrants and their children to the United States based on nationally representative samples of the administrative records, compiled by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), pertaining to immigrants newly admitted to permanent residence. "
- Pew Research Center"The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world."
- Polling the Nations This link opens in a new windowText of and responses to over 35,000 survey questions from over 14,000 polls taken in the US and 80 other countries since 1986.
- Pollster.comA variety of polls - political, economic, social - from National Journal.
- World Public OpinionProvides information on public opinion from around the world on international issues. Survey reports are organized by geographical region and go back as far as 2001.