Statistics and Datasets: Public Opinion Polls and Surveys

To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research conducts monthly, non-partisan polls on key social and technological issues. Search the website by topic to find summaries and analyses, or use the “Download Data” link to find public use data files and technical summaries of polls conducted by the AP-NORC Center.

List of sources for public opinion polls.

Ballotpedia is a nonpartisan digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections. This portal allows users to search for: sample ballots by home address; local-state-congressional-national election information; key legislative ballot issues; policy summaries; polling indexes; school boards; municipal boards and more.

Online resource for public opinion surveys conducted by CBS News.

Gallup.Com provides data-driven news based on U.S. and world polls, daily tracking and public opinion research.

The GSS, provided by NORC, contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. The GSS takes the pulse of America, and is a unique and valuable resource. It has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades.

KFF (formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation) publishes polling data for over 100 health topics. Use the search link to find surveys by topic.

The Institute maintains a variety of public opinion data. Many of these data are available from the Odum Institute Archive Dataverse. Public opinion data can support a variety of social science and multidisciplinary research endeavors, assist in the development of public policy, and provide useful educational resources. The public opinion data available from the Odum Institute Data Archive include the following: Louis Harris Data Center, Carolina Polls, Southern Focus Polls, and Media Polls.

This nonpartisan think tank publishes reports, transcripts, surveys, polls and data summaries on a wide range of social, scientific and political issues. Coverage includes national and international topics.

Made available by Public Agenda, this resource contains public opinion and policy analysis on current issues. Includes links to “Research Studies” and “Issue Guides”.

See this resource guide from the Library of Congress to identify state and federal election-related statistics and datasets.

YouGov is an international Internet-based market research organization. They track and post public-use survey data and analyses on a wide range of topics including consumer brands, politics, entertainment, and culture.