With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Center developed the Health Poll Database. The goals of this database were multiple: to make the health questions more accessible, to make trends easy to find and use, to assist researchers in finding the questions they are interested in by applying topic tags to individual questions, and to educate users on the relationships between different aspects of health and health policy.
Significant technological strides were advanced in the course of the project and have been deployed within Roper iPoll, making a separate, redundant database unnecessary. However, the support from the Center's partners on this project was fundamental to enabling huge strides in the archiving of public opinion data across topic areas.