 In these challenging times, the Roper Center is proud to debut enhanced search and user functions to support online research, teaching, and learning. We are also proud to be a hub for COVID-related survey data, archiving 1,127 questions about COVID-19 in the Roper iPoll question database and 34 COVID-19 datasets that have been downloaded more than 1,100 times. In the last three months, we have also added 720 historical USIA survey reports from 75 countries, more than 5,000 new survey questions, and more than 100 new datasets!
We sincerely hope you and your family and friends are safe and healthy, and we thank you for your ongoing support.
Sincerely,
Peter K. Enns
Executive Director, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Co-Director, Cornell Center for Social Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University |
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COVID-19: Topic Tracker and Open Data
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 The Roper Center is committed to supporting the research community through the COVID-19 pandemic. Our data team is prioritizing the processing of all COVID-19 surveys, often on a 24 to 48-hour turnaround. We are employing our Topic Tracker technology to chart COVID-19 survey question frequency in Roper iPoll. Additionally, while the pandemic continues, we are making all datasets related to COVID-19 publicly available. If you have pandemic data you would like Roper Center to archive, please contact us. |
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 The agility of polling makes it uniquely suited to the challenges of a shifting environment like an emerging infectious disease epidemic. During past infectious disease outbreaks, like the swine flu outbreak of 1976 or the more recent H1N1 and SARS outbreaks, polling has provided essential information about support for government policies, trusted sources of information, actions taken to avoid disease, and concern about infection. Learn more about polling in times of crisis here. |
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2020-2021 Mitofsky Fellow
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 This year’s 2020-2021 Warren J. Mitofsky Fellowship has been awarded to Sang Lee. Lee is a Ph.D. candidate of Sociology at Cornell University. His current research examines political consequences of economic crises and widening inequality with special attention to the Great Recession, the rise of populism, and the declining public trust in political institutions. Prior to starting his doctoral studies, Sang received a master’s degree in political sociology at the London School of Economics and worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea. Click here to learn more about the Mitofsky Fellowship and the projects of past recipients.
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Please join us in celebrating the selection of the 2020 Andrew Kohut Fellows. The Kohut Fellowship honors the memory of Andrew Kohut and his numerous contributions to the science and art of survey research. Click here to learn more about the Kohut Fellowship and the projects of past recipients.
 Kwelina Thompson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Cornell University. She specializes in U.S. economic history with a particular focus on the influence of technology on work processes and gender stratification. Her research explores the ways in which institutions of higher education, government policies, and professional organizations have transformed labor market outcomes in the post-World War II era.
 Bryan Huang is a Cornell junior pursuing a double major in Government and Information Science, with a concentration in Data Science. He is interested in using data-driven research to examine what factors affect public opinion as well as how electoral systems shape political outcomes. His Kohut Fellowship research project explores whether the degree of public concern related to climate change is correlated with the location of natural disasters in the U.S. over the past twenty years.
 Colin Cepuran is a Ph.D. candidate in the Government Department of Cornell University, where he studies the role of policy in political attitude and identity formation. His dissertation examines how DACA shaped the political attitudes and racial/ethnic identities of the Dreamers. More broadly, his work sits at the intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, Policy Studies, and American Political Development. Prior to studying at Cornell, he worked in local politics. He has consulted for multiple local races in Southwestern Michigan and managed a State Representative's re-election campaign.
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Have You Switched to the New Roper iPoll?
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 Enhanced search functions, automatic citations, new data visualizations, and much more are now available through the new Roper iPoll experience. Email us today to make the switch! Read about the numerous benefits of using the new system on our blog and review our Frequently Asked Question page.
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To alleviate financial strain for our supporting members in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, membership rates will remain flat in fiscal year 2021. Additionally, all payments will receive the 5% discount offered to check and wire payments. Thank you for your continued support.
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USIA Digital Report Collection
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The United States Information Agency (USIA) digital report collection – a Roper Center exclusive - features 720 reports based on USIA survey work from the years 1946-1981, created for the use of U.S. State Department agency officials. Each of the individual reports has been scanned into PDF format, and includes all pages, cover to cover, and all text, charts, and maps. Some of the reports have hand-written notes in the margins from the analysts who received the reports. It is a singular digital collection that complements the associated USIA Survey dataset collection already available through the Roper Center archive. After you locate reports you are interested in, please email Data Services to get access. |
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Pioneers of Polling Class of 2020
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 The Roper Center is unveiling the 2020 class of the Roper Pioneers of Polling, expanding the popular collection of buttons. The Pioneers commemorate important historical figures in the field of polling who have also contributed to or utilized data in the Roper Center collection. This year’s class includes not just one, but two former Roper Center luminaries: founding director of the Pew Center and former chair of the Roper Board, Andrew Kohut, and Bud Roper, extraordinary pollster and former president of the Roper organization. Additionally, we are excited to honor the work of Gladys and Kurt Lang, American sociologists and communications theorists whose work on the influence of media in shaping public opinion gave deeper meaning to the 1970’s-term “media event.” Buttons will be available at professional meetings in the future. Make sure to add these to your collection. |
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 The Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) is a consortium of 39 universities that came together in 2006 to create the first truly large-scale academic survey project aimed at studying the midterm Congressional elections. The joint efforts of these research organizations produced a 36,500-person national survey of the American electorate, as well as 36 separate 1,000-participant studies focused on particular research questions of interest to the individual teams.
 The New York Times Upshot/Siena College Research Institute poll is part of an ongoing project polling pivotal Congressional races across the country. In an innovative approach that reached new heights in transparency, the data were published live as respondents were contacted and interviewed. The Roper Center collection of Upshot polls includes the final datasets, weighted by a modeled turnout score, as well as reports that include maps of calls and comparisons of results to other polls covering the same races. Learn more and access polls here. |
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The Roper Center is excited to welcome Kathy Mertens as our new Quality Assurance Analyst! Mertens brings over 22 years of  professional academic, commercial and private consulting experience to her role. Her goal is to define and implement exceptional quality standards for the software development lifecycle using world-class QA process flows and modern project management technologies. She holds a BBA in Business Administration from SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Kathy, we are very pleased you have decided to join the Roper Center.
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Roper Archive Now Discoverable in Google Dataset Search
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