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 its…
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…
Polling and Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 shocked the U.S. and sent the country into war. At the time, public opinion polling was in its infancy, and…
Immigration Data: America's Views of Immigration in 2015
Examine America's views on immigration in recent public opinion polls from ABC News/Washington Post, CBS News, and CNN/ORC. These three surveys contribute…
New Data Provider: Public Opinion Programme at the University of Hong Kong (HKU POP)
The Public Opinion Programme at the University of Hong Kong (HKU POP) is now a Roper Center data provider. HKU POP has been conducting quality research…
Roper at WAPOR Latin American Conference
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research was proud to be a sponsor and presenter at the seventhLatin American Conference of the World Association for…
2016 Election Recap
Did you know the first iPoll question about the 2016 election appeared in 2013? It's been a long road. Now that election day is in the past, a look back…
Vote Fraud
Donald Trump has claimed that illegal voting - including voting by non-citizens or people voting under assumed identities - was responsible for Hillary…
In Memoriam: Jim Davis
Jim Davis, giant in the field of survey research and winner of the 2010 Roper Center Mitofsky Award, died on September 29 after a brief illness. His…
Shutdown Showdown
Another budget negotiation, another government shutdown? Maybe. If an agreement cannot be reached that would provide aid to Flint, MI, Senate Democrats…
Presidential Approval: New tools
How does presidential approval in Barack Obama's second term compared to that of George W. Bush? How about to Harry Truman? With the Roper Center's newly…
Curbed Enthusiasm: Voting in 2016
Much has been made of the supposed disenchantment of voters in the current election. In the most recent CBS News/NYT poll, only 36% of registered voters…