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PAKPAC Information on Polling Sources


ABC News Polls
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/PollVault/PollVault.html
ABC news polls dating back to 1999.

CBS News Polls
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/opinion/polls/main500160.shtml
Political and other surveys back to April 1998

Gallup Organization
http://www.gallup.com/
The Gallup Organization provides information on polling and the
Gallup organization. Users can also take a Gallup survey online.

Harris Poll Online
http://www.harrispollonline.com/
Policy makers, business leaders and the media rely on the Harris Poll to produce accurate, reliable information on topics as diverse as our participants. In fact, the Harris Poll has surveyed millions of people from more than 90 countries in the past 40 years.

National Council on Public Polls
http://www.ncpp.org/home.asp
The National Council on Public Polls (NCPP) is an association of polling organizations established in 1969. Its mission is to set the highest professional standards for public opinion pollsters, and to advance the understanding, among politicians, the media and general public, of how polls are conducted and how to interpret poll results.

Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
http://www.irss.unc.edu
The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the
University of North Carolina offers searchable questionnaire databases, which are available for the Louis Harris polls, the Carolina and Southern Focus Polls, National Network of State Polls surveys.

Pew Research Center: The People and the Press
http://www.people-press.org/
The Center is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. They are best known for regular national surveys that measure public attentiveness to major news stories, and for our polling that charts trends in values and fundamental political and social attitudes. Formerly, the
Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press (1990-1995), they are now sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Polling Report
http://www.pollingreport.com/
PollingReport.com is a service of The Polling Report, an independent, nonpartisan organization that conducts polls on issues and current events, public officials, institutions, organizations, and elections -- including state and congressional-district data. The site is updated whenever new polls are released. Also contains links to selected articles on public opinion and survey research from The Polling Report.

Public Agenda
http://www.publicagenda.org/
For over a quarter of a century, Public Agenda has been providing unbiased and unparalleled research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life. Nonpartisan and nonprofit, Public Agenda was founded by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1975. Public Agenda's two-fold mission is to help:

Roper Center
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is the leading educational facility in the field of public opinion. The Center exists to promote the intelligent, responsible and imaginative use of public opinion in addressing the problems faced by Americans and citizens of other nations.

Survey Research Resources
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~abelson/
The Survey Research Center offers survey methods applied to the study of social issues, consumer research, and policy analysis. The site features some comprehensive sites, and fewer individual links.

The Center on Policy Attitudes
http://www.policyattitudes.org/
The Center on Policy Attitudes was created to help give a greater voice to the American public in the policymaking process. Founded in 1992, COPA seeks to deepen understanding of American public attitudes by: conducting in-depth nationwide polls, focus groups, and interviews;integrating its findings together with data from other organizations into a coherent analysis of majority opinion; and actively communicating its findings to the policymaking community, the media, academia and the public.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
ICPSR encourages and facilitates research and instruction in the social sciences and related areas by acquiring, developing, archiving, and disseminating data and documentation relevant to a wide spectrum of disciplines, and by conducting related instructional programs.

The Los Angeles Times Polls
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/POLLS/
The Los Angeles Times Poll has been conducting surveys for publication in the newspaper for over twenty years, starting as a part-time experiment, expanding to a three person full-time department in 1980 and finally computerizing and expanding to its present size and configuration in 1984. The Times Poll has conducted well over 400 surveys in its history, including exit polls of every presidential and
California gubernatorial election during that time.

The Program on International Policy Attitudes
http://www.pipa.org/
The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) carries out research on public attitudes on international issues by conducting nationwide polls, focus groups and comprehensive reviews of polling conducted by other organizations.

University of Kansas Online Public Opinion Listings
http://www.ku.edu/cwis/units/coms2/po/
Contains links to numerous public opinion sources.

Washington Post On Poltics
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/datadir.htm
The Data Directory is a guide to public opinion data published on the Internet by nonpartisan organizations. .

Washington Post Polls
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/polls/
The Washington Post regularly surveys Americans on questions of national interest

Zogby International
http://www.zogby.com/
Zogby International has been tracking public opinion since 1984 in North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

 

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