Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (Roper Center)

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The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University is the world's oldest archive of social science data and the largest specializing in data from public opinion surveys. Its collection includes over 27,000 datasets and more than 855,000 questions with responses in Roper iPoll, adding hundreds more each year. The archive contains responses from millions of individuals on a vast range of topics. The current executive director of the center is Jonathon P. Schuldt, Associate Professor of Communication at Cornell University, with a governing board of directors chaired by Robert Y. Shapiro of Columbia University.

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The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University is the world's largest archive of public opinion polling data.

The Center's archives contains over 25,000 datasets, polls, reports and polling ephemera from the U.S. and abroad, and offers to it's members Roper iPoll, a text-searchable database of nearly a million questions and topline results from national U.S. polls, state-level U.S. polls, and an expanding database of international research.

Learn more and complete a search at https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll

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