The Summer of Love at the State Level
Vietnam, racial tensions, conflicts in the Middle East, the coming election: The hot topics in the 1967 national polls were also reflected at the state…
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came: Changing Opinions on the Draft
Fifty years ago, in the spring of 1967, a group of students gathered at the Sheep Meadow in Central Park to burn their draft cards.More than 150 cards…
From Russia with Love: Young Adult Opinions in 1967
While Vietnam was the top issue for the U.S. in polls throughout 1967's Summer of Love, still the Cold War showed no signs of thaw. A special Gallup…
Rural and Urban Mapuche Today
Indigenous Mapuche women protesting at the Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago de Chile. Photo by Cymru.lass Centro de Estudios Públicos’s (CEP)…
Sex in the Summer of Love: International Public Opinion
As new medical advances in contraception appeared on the market in the 1960s, public opinion regarding family planning and sexual health saw…
Going All the Way: Public Opinion and Premarital Sex
Fifty years ago during the Summer of Love, the emerging hippie subculture captured the attention of the nation. Young people outraged their elders with…
50 Years After the Summer of Love
Fifty years later, the summer of 1967—the Summer of Love, of hippies and be-ins, the Long Hot Summer of protests and riots—still stands in the popular…
Energy and Climate Change in the 2016 Election
In 2016 the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released the Energy and…
Native Americans: Debate Over the Washington Redskins' Name Change
In 2016, the Washington Post released the National Survey of Native Americans poll of an unusual sample of 504 Native American adults…
New Orleans: Recovery Status 10 Years After Katrina
photo by AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Kyle Niemi In a 2015 survey of New Orleans residents (n=1,517) by the Kaiser…
Foreign Policy Data: American Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy
The Chicago Council Survey is a trusted and widely cited source of longitudinal data on American public opinion about a broad range of US foreign policy…
Celebrating the Roper Center's 70th Anniversary
In 2017, the Roper Center is proud to celebrate 70 years as the world's foremost archive of public opinion data. Since its founding in 1947, the Center…
Going to ACRL?
Going to the ACRL 2017 conference in Baltimore? We are! Come by booth 1612 to learn more about our new data providers, like the University of Hong Kong…
NADDI 2017
Roper Center is proud to co-host the NADDI (North American Data Documentation Initiative) 2017 Conference at Cornell University. Researchers, data…
Public Opinion and the Passage of the Medicare Bill blog
The early days of public opinion research captured Americans’ response to the first major efforts by the U.S. government to provide health care to…
2017 Mitofsky Award: Call for Nominations
The 2017 Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research is an annual award of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell…
Most Important Problem Dataset
Public opinion researchers depend on certain questions as essential public opinion barometers, like presidential job approval or Bud Roper's right-…
Happy Holidays from Roper
The Roper Center wishes happy holidays to everyone in our community! Our staff will be enjoying Cornell's winter break from December 23 through January 2…
Presidential Transition in the Polls
The weeks between election and inauguration usually represent a honeymoon period in which the president-elect's decisions are given good reviews by the…
Understanding the 2016 Election Polls
After Trump’s stunning upset on Election Day, pollsters have been making their best efforts to understand just why the 2016 election polls missed the mark…