InfoGuides: Find Data & Statistics: More Polls & Public Opinion

Search Polls & Public Opinion Surveys by Topic OR Variable

These will display frequency tables and charts of responses to particular questions.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

The leading archive for US public opinion polls, with nearly a million questions from 1935 to today. Also has data from over 50 other countries. Includes data from Gallup, Harris, Pew, ABC, CBS and more. Full access with a George Mason login.

Polling the Nations
Searchable archive of global opinion poll questions since 1986. Filter by date, location, topic, and source. No direct dataset download, but nice tables and graphs. Useful for determining which questions are asked by specific polls.

Better for Browsing

These include reports with statistics and charts.

Pew Research Center

Easy-to-use survey datasets and associated reports on US politics, media, religion and social trends. Also conducts a long-running survey of Global Attitudes.

Gallup Analytics
Access to 80 years of U.S. and global opinion data from Gallup. Use Gallup Brain for polls back to 1936. Note: Our subscription includes access to microdata datasets for the GPSS, US Daily Poll, World Poll, and COVID-19 poll and Well-Being Index. See the FAQ How to Request Gallup Analytics Data.

Odum Institute Polling Archive
Includes data from the Harris Collection, National Network of State Polls (NNSP), Community Indicators Survey, Southern Regional Public Opinion, and USA Today polls. Archived by the Harvard Dataverse Search.

More Significant Global Surveys

See also the previous section(s) for popular, high-quality, global surveys from Pew and Gallup.

Global Barometer Surveys
Comparative surveys of attitudes and values toward politics, power, reform, democracy and citizens' political actions, conducted by five regional barometer groups focused on the Global South. Visit the partners own sites for additional surveys within each region.
International Social Survey Program (ISSP)
Annual cross-national surveys with a varying social science topic, such as work orientation, the role of government, and religion.
World Values Survey
A longitudinal representative survey that has been conducted by teams in over 120 countries since 1981 to allow for comparisons over time and place. Download the data in multiple formats or use online tools to create country-specific frequency tables and cross-tabs.
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
Election research with voter attitudes, participation, and institutional data from an international collaboration. For a US equivalent, see ANES.

How to Find Polls & Public Opinion Data

All repositories on this page include high quality international AND US data.

Check Also:

ICPSR (on Datasets -- Start Here), a huge repository with all kinds of data
For U.S. Surveys: See More U.S. Datasets for polls such as as ANES and GSS
For Other Countries: Go to Regional Orgs and find "barometer" organizations which do polling

How to use	iPOLL Databank Tutorials
Data Format	[Zipped] SPSS, Stata, SAS, Excel
Registration	You will need to create an account to download data. George Mason University is a Roper Center member which means students, staff and faculty have full access to its resources.
How to cite:	How to cite the Roper Center

How to use	Go to their Download Datasets page then select a topical area. Log in to your account (or create one), then pick a survey and click the "Download" arrow on the right. Papers that used the data are also listed.
Data Format	[Zipped] SPSS, converting SPSS to Stata,
Registration	Create an account by providing your name and email and accepting a use agreement and terms of use, which includes agreeing only to use the data for research purposes and not trying to identify individuals.
Focus Fast	Look at the top few studies within each topic, which are the most recent.