 As the Roper Center team works remotely in these unprecedented circumstances, we are proud to be adding data at our fastest ever pace. The 244 datasets we have added to the archive this year include 75 surveys related to COVID-19. We have added 240 new questions on topics related to Black Americans, policing, and protest. The archive now has over 760,000 questions in iPoll, and we add more every day. To learn more about our support of Black Lives Matter, the 2020 Mitofsky Award winner, the completely new and enhanced Roper iPoll search system, and more, continue reading.
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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2020 Warren J. Mitofsky Award
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 The Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Karlyn Bowman, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is the recipient of the 2020 Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research. This award recognizes Bowman’s contributions to American public opinion on a variety of subjects, including the economy, taxes, the state of workers in America, environment and global warming, attitudes about homosexuality and gay marriage, NAFTA and free trade, the war in Iraq, and women’s attitudes. The 2020 Warren J. Mitofsky award ceremony will be held virtually on November 12, 2020 at 4PM EST. Tickets are $25 and are available on our website. |
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 The Roper Center is committed to supporting the research community through the COVID-19 pandemic. Our data team continues to prioritize the processing of all COVID-19 surveys, often on a 24- to 48-hour turnaround. You can access 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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Online Crosstabs in New Roper iPoll
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 Did you know that Roper iPoll features demographic crosstabs? Find out how to use this tool here. Additionally, enhanced search functions, automatic citations, new data visualizations, and much more are now available through the new Roper iPoll experience. Read about the numerous benefits of using the new system on our blog and review our Frequently Asked Question page.
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1962 Poll of Jewish Residents
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 In the wake of WWII, the Gallup-affiliated Netherlands Institute of Public Opinion (NIPO) began a polling series of the Dutch population’s post-war conditions and attitudes. A 1962 poll from this series offers the opinions of 210 Jewish residents of Amsterdam on a variety of subjects. Converted from column binary format, these face-to-face interviews delve into a fascinating range of topics, including Antisemitism in the Netherlands, the future of the Jewish community in their country, and household habits and practices. If you are interested in this or similar studies, please contact Data Services to learn what is available. |
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Keep Up to Date with New Data
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Want to be on top of all the latest additions to Roper iPoll? You can be informed of all new published data in the  archive through this page with our RSS link. IMPORTANT: if you already use RSS, the links on that page point to the new Roper iPoll as of August 13th. and you must subscribe to the new RSS feed to continue receiving updates. |
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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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Roper Center Supports Black Lives Matter
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 As we reflect on racism and anti-racism, the Roper Center has identified and is making available all public opinion surveys of Black Americans in the Roper data archive. We highlight these surveys of Black Americans, which span from 1945 to 2020, in order to remember and amplify the voices of these individuals. We are also making more than eight decades of public opinion data on how the U.S. public views Black America available. These data provide historical insight into how racial attitudes have changed in the United States and how the public currently views topics such as police brutality, race relations, and Black Lives Matter. We are making all of the data in the Say Their Names, Hear Their Voices collection freely available to the public on request. If you are not a Roper Center member, contact Data Services to request access.
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All New System: Action Required
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The classic version of the iPoll system will be decommissioned on Septe mber 1, 2020, making way for the enhanced features of the new Roper iPoll experience.
IMPORTANT: Make sure you change your bookmark to https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/ in order to access the features of new Roper iPoll. To confirm that your organization has migrated to the new system, check with your institution's account administrator or contact Alexis Bortle. Users may also be interested in the supportive FAQ page.
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 Mark your calendars for the next installment of the free Roper Center User Education Series -- The Roper Roundtable! Every major media and political polling organization is deep in the trenches trying to refine their data collection efforts and accurately predict the outcome of the 2020 elections, while political scientists are looking back at previous elections and fine-tuning their models. The Roper Roundtable can help you keep on top of the newest results, as well as place current electoral trends into historical perspective with decades’ worth of the most commonly utilized measures of public electoral leanings. Register today for the discussion on Wednesday, October 7th at 1PM EST. |
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 Did you know that our global data collection is growing? iPoll has individual topline data from the UK, Canada and Japan, as well as over 10,000 complete studies from 125 countries outside the US. Use our interactive map to explore the published collections by country. Contact Data Services to inquire about regions of interest to your research. |
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