Library Guides: Public Opinion Polls: Databases

Databases

General Social Survey (GSS)
The GSS gathers data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes. Hundreds of trends have been tracked since 1972. In addition, since the GSS adopted questions from earlier surveys, trends can be followed for up to 70 years.
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The GSS contains a standard core of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Among the topics covered are civil liberties, crime and violence, intergroup tolerance, morality, national spending priorities, psychological well-being, social mobility, and stress and traumatic events.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, ICPSR
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Roper Center iPoll and datasets
The iPOLL database provides access to nearly half a million public opinion survey questions on a wide range of topics. A new initiative to make questions from U.S. state-level polls available in the Roper iPoll database has created the U.S. State Collection by making thousands of questions easily accessible and by including detailed methodological information, such as exact question wording, sample size, and survey method.Coverage is 1935-present.
Social Science Variables Database (SSVD)
Enables ICPSR users to examine and compare variables and questions across studies or series. The SSVD currently includes over 4 million variables, representing about 76% of ICPSR's holdings that have quantitative data described in statistical syntax.