Attitudes Toward Vietnam Era Veterans
The Attitudes Toward Vietnam Era Veterans Survey, conducted by Louis Harris and Associates for the Veterans Administration from November 17 - December 19…
Assassination Nation: Public Responses to King and Kennedy in 1968
In 1968, even more so than in most years, the news was bleak – the carnage in Vietnam, race riots, violence in the streets at the Democratic National…
US-Russia Survey: A Cross-Country Poll
In December 2017, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in partnership with the Yuri Levada Analytical Center released the 2017 US-Russia Survey, a cross-…
1968 in Datasets blog
Datasets from 1968 reflected the concerns of the day. At the national level, Gallup polls covered public attitudes on the biggest stories in the news: the…
Puerto Rico's Recovery After Hurricane Maria blog
In October 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a survey exploring Americans' knowledge and views regarding Hurricane Maria's impact on Puerto…
Waco, Branch Davidians, and Changing Perceptions
Twenty-five years ago this week, federal and Texas state law officers laid siege to the Waco, TX Branch Davidian compound, where they believed cult…
Irish Peace and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998
The Good Friday Agreement of April 10, 1998 was an historic moment in the long Irish peace process. In it the status of Northern Ireland, its…
Metadata at Roper: Building Usability
Since moving to Cornell in late 2015, the Roper Center has been rebuilding its archival structure and replacing old systems with new technology. At…
Spotlight on Philippines Data
In recent months, the Roper Center has begun to receive datasets from three new data providers in the Philippines. Social Weather Stations, the…
Public Health in Low-Income Southern States blog
The Low-Income Southern States Survey series from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is now available in the archive. Conducted…
50 Years After 1968
The year that rocked the world and changed the United States forever, 1968 is remembered as a time of societal divisions and cultural shifts. Following on…
1962 Roper Interviewers' Handbook
Early polling researchers knew well that their data was only as good as their interviewers. These field researchers had to interpret instructions to…
Concerns of Rural America
In June 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation in partnership with The Washington Post released a poll of 1,686 national adults, including an…
Tensions with North Korea: The 1968 Pueblo Incident
Over the last few months, tensions between the United States and North Korea have been high. Fifty years ago, the two countries faced a crisis that found…
Roper Center Awarded CoreTrustSeal Certification
We are pleased to announce the Roper Center has been awarded the CoreTrustSeal certification for 2017-2019. The CoreTrustSeal has been developed by the…
Exploring the Andrew Kohut Collection
When most people think about the Roper Center, they think data. While data and datasets are what the Center is about for the most part, there are…
Responsibility, Overconfidence, & Intervention Efforts in the Age of Fake News
Who does the public hold accountable in the age of mass misinformation? What is being done now to deal with the problem? How can it be done better?Fake…
Long-Term Care in America: Who Should Bear the Responsibilities & Costs of Care
Source: AP-NORC In March 2017, the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research conducted a survey of 1,341 Americans, including an oversample…
Opinions on the 2017 Women's Marches
Women’s March on Washington (image source: Washington Post) Women’s Marches, a new dataset addition to the archive from the Washington Post,…
New Year's Resolution: Archive Your Data
Vital research on public opinion is lost every day. Hard drives holding valuable polling data are gathering dust in storage rooms. Flash drives are…