Featured Projects

The 2022 Collaborative Midterm Survey aimed to help promote innovation, inform the future of survey research, and understand the midterm election.

Comprised of multiple teams engaged in multiple modes of data collection, the 2022 CMS was a unique project from conception through execution and analysis.

In January 2023, experts from industry, academia, and media offered their perspectives on the innovations, methods, and data from the 2022 Collaborative Midterm Survey. All panelists received the survey data in advance and incorporated their analyses into the presentations and comments.

To accommodate individuals, small polling firms, researchers at academic institutions, corporations, non-profits, think tanks, media outlets, and government agencies, we offer cost-effective variable pricing based on membership types and the America's Voice Project.

The Andrew Kohut Collection includes a variety of material created/collected by Andrew Kohut throughout his career in the survey/polling industry.

The joint scholarly work of Adam Berinsky, Mitsui Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Eric Schickler, Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, involves the study of the American mass public from the 1930s through the early 1950s. In order to study this era, the two have worked collaboratively to rehabilitate hundreds of older, under-utilized opinion polls, originally collected in those early decades and archived at the Roper Center. With support from the National Science Foundation, they have developed a system of weights (among other technical refinements) intended to improve the representativeness of these polls. 

The Roper Center has decided to highlight and share more than eight decades of public opinion data on how the U.S. public views Black America as well as data on Black Americans’ public opinion. These data provide historical insight into how racial attitudes have changed in the United States and how the public currently views topics such as police brutality, race relations, and Black Lives Matter.

Funding from FWD.us allowed Roper Center to fast-track processing and provide open-access distribution for the Family History of Incarceration Study (FamHIS), led by Professor Chris Wildeman of Cornell University.

The Latin American Databank (LAD) provides a portal for Latin American datasets acquired, processed and archived by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

Funding from the National Science Foundation will support Peter Enns’ and Jonathon Schuldt’s research to examine COVID-19 and social bias in the U.S. 

Under a grant to the Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU) from the Uruguayan Research and Innovation Agency (ANII), Fondo Sectorial de Investigación a Partir de Datos, Roper Center will provide preservation and access for data recovered in a research project led by  Juan Ariel Bogliaccini and Rosario Queirolo of UCU, in collaboration with four polling organizations (Equipos Consultores, CIFRA, Grupo Radar and Opción Consultores).

This project, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, represents a partnership between the University of Southampton and the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University. The project will restore hundreds of British public opinion polls conducted between 1945 and 1991 that were previously unavailable in modern data formats. The data are currently stored in ‘column binary format’ based on IBM punch cards, rendering them inaccessible to most researchers today.

The Roper Center is committed to supporting the research community through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since 2001, TESS has been supporting general population experiments on behalf of investigators throughout the social sciences.

These reports, which have not previously been available digitally, come from the United States Information Agency. Also known as the U.S. Information Service (USIS), the USIA was a foreign affairs agency in the executive branch of the U.S. government with a charge to explain and support U.S. foreign policy, interests, and values abroad. 720 historical survey reports from 75 different countries are now available to Roper members.