 2019 was an exciting year at the Roper Center! Roper’s website had nearly 1.5 million page views and users analyzed 782,000 unique questions in the Roper iPoll Database. We added 295 new datasets from more than 35 organizations and a record-setting 17,794 new questions from 65 different organizations to the archive. Roper Center data were used in 300 academic publications and in more than 400 news mentions.
We thank our many data providers and supporters for helping us achieve such a successful year! For additional updates on our Small Media Initiative, 2016 NEP Election Day Exit Polls, America's Voice Project, the Roper 2020 Election Topic Tracker, and more, read the February 2020 issue of Roper’s Data Dive below.
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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One of the Roper Center's newest data providers is MassINC. The MassINC Polling Group is a nonpartisan public opinion research firm serving public, private, and social-sector clients. MPG elevates the public's voice with cutting-edge methods and rigorous analysis. Based in Boston, MPG serves a nationwide client base. Click here to access MassINC’s data.
Another exciting addition to the collection, Charney Research is making unheard voices audible. They achieve this by using surveys in emerging markets and crisis countries to bring their unheard voices to companies, development groups, and conflict resolution or security assistance organizations. Craig Charney formed Charney Research in 1997 to accomplish this, after joining President Clinton’s 1996 polling team as Senior Analyst.To see the Charney Research Afghanistan 2007 poll, click here.
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1938-1946 British Institute
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Questions from British Institute of Public Opinion (BIPO) polls from 1938-1946 have been added to the Roper iPoll question search database. BIPO was formed in 1936 to bring to the United Kingdom the new public opinion techniques pioneered by George Gallup, Elmo Roper, and Archibald Crossley in the U.S. BIPO’s work was proven accurate in predicting election results on multiple occasions, helping polling gain legitimacy with the British public and media. For more information and links to the data, click here. |
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Roper 2020 Election Topic Tracker
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Which issues are the polls focused on this election cycle, and how do they differ from 2016? Although the horse race polls get the most attention, surveys during an election year  also provide important information about what the public and likely voters think about relevant policy issues. In 2020, the Roper Center is comparing the polling between 2016 and 2020 on the substantive issues affecting voter opinion. Which issues are the polls focused on this election cycle, and how do they differ from 2016? These charts track the volume of topical questions asked in 2020 polls and link directly to those poll results so users can easily navigate to the results.
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Roper Roundtable - Elections Bundle
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 Mark your calendars for the next installment of the free Roper Center User Education Series --The Roper Roundtable! The Roper Center offers a host of educational resources for those interested in keeping pace with the 2020 election and/or drawing comparisons to historical opinion. Join us on Thursday, March 5th at 1PM EST for an overview of Roper’s exit polls, how groups voted, demographic tools, 2020 topics tracker, presidential approval tracking, and issues data. Register today, it’s free. |
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Small Media Membership Update
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The Rop er Center for Public Opinion Research recognizes the importance of media reporting on the public’s attitudes and preferences. Representative democracy requires that politicians understand public attitudes, experiences, and concerns. To help local news fulfill this critical task during the 2020 election campaign, we are proud to provide small independent news organizations with complimentary membership privileges through November of 2020.
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 The Queens Public Library and the Roper Center have announced a collaboration to bring public opinion to the public. Citizens across the New York City borough of Queens will have access to current and historical polling data in time for the 2020 election year thanks to the America’s Voice Project.
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2020 Mitofsky Award Call for Nominations
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The Roper Center is calling for nominations for the 2020 Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research. Nominees  can include those with recent work or past work that continues to have a significant impact on our understanding of public opinion. Nominations can be made for a specific project, innovation, conference paper, article or book, or for a larger body of work by a researcher or practitioner. Special consideration will be given to work drawn on data archived at the Roper Center. The Center welcomes and encourages diversity in all aspects of the research profession, including our award nominees.
Anyone can make a nomination (including self-nominations) by submitting a statement that includes the full citation of the work(s), a brief description of the work’s significance and impact, and any connection of the nominee to the Roper Center’s public opinion data archives such as a contribution to the archives or use of the archives for research or other purposes. For full consideration, nominations must be received by March 31, 2020. Submit nominations to Mark Hugo Lopez.
View pictures from last year’s event on our Facebook page.
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2016 NEP Election Day Exit Polls
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 The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and Edison Research recently announced that the 2016 and 2018 National Election Pool (NEP) primary and election day exit polls are now available through the Roper archive. As a demonstration of their commitment to the highest levels of transparency in survey research, Edison has made these and all earlier exit polls available to Roper members for immediate download. No additional application will be required.
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Roper Archive on WorldCat.org
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Members of Roper can access our dataset catalog wi th WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org. If you are a librarian, enable our database as a search option in the Licensed Content and Database module of the OCLC Service Configuration tool. If you have questions about Roper and WorldCat, don’t hesitate to contact us at data services.
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Join Roper Center Director of Data Operations and Communication Kathleen Weldon for NYAAPOR’s Meet the Masters workshop on Thursday, F  ebruary 27 th in Ne w York City. Kathleen will be presenting “Research Using Survey Archives: There’s gold in past surveys.” More information on the event is available at https://www.nyaapor.org/events.
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