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…
2017 Mitofsky Award Winner Howard Schuman
Howard Schuman (PhD, Sociology, Harvard University; MS, Psychology, Trinity College; and A.B., Philosophy, Antioch College) is a distinguished and…
End-of-Life Medical Care: A Cross-Country Poll
In April 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation in partnership with The Economist released the End-of-Life Medical Care poll, a cross-country survey of adults…
Lopez, Musick, Schuldt Join Roper Center Board of Directors
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, the world’s largest archive of public opinion data, welcomes three new members to its Board of Directors: …
Ideological Self-Identification Before Democratic Collapse: The Case of Chile Before 1973
"September 11 evokes tragic memories in the U.S. due to the terrorist attacks in 2001. Far south in the Americas in Chile, the date is associated with a…
Zika Virus: A Look Back at the 2016 Summer Olympics
In March 2016, the Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago conducted a national survey of 1,004 adults to explore Americans' knowledge…
Working-Class Whites: Views on Economy
In September 2016, the Kaiser Family Foundation and CNN released the Working-Class Whites poll of 1,614 national adults, with large oversamples of white,…
The Long Hot Summer: Riots in 1967
The Summer of Love was not the only nickname given to those months in 1967 when the world seemed to be changing at a record pace. Over 150 riots fueled…
Lemberg Center Poll: Six-City Study on Violence
The Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence at Brandeis University was established after the assassination of President Kennedy to investigate the…
A Creeping Doubt: Public Support for Vietnam in 1967
In Vietnam, no one called 1967 the Summer of Love. With half a million US troops on the ground and almost twice that number of allies, the year was…
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) May 2006…
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 momentous…
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. This survey…
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 Family…