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What is Roper iPoll?

Roper iPoll is a deeply informative and interactive opinion data research platform that is built on top of the Roper Center’s over 76-year-old archive.  Roper iPoll offers nearly a million survey and poll questions, response data, associated reporting, methodology and transparency documentation (such as survey organization and sponsor information, mode, field dates, etc.), full questionnaires, related survey ephemera, and more.

Roper iPoll provides in-app analytic and collaboration tools that are designed for novice users up to expert data interpreters, and everyone in between. 

  •                Instant and downloadable question response frequency charts 

  •                Participant demographic data breakdowns

  •                Trusted and customizable overtime trends via Roper Trends

  •                Shared folders for segmented saved data and collaborative work 

  •                Citation generator for research references

  •                Custom variable crosstab analysis (full membership access)Downloadable full study records (full membership access)


If it's ever been a topic of opinion research, it's likely to be in Roper iPoll, as questions have been added to the archive daily since 1935.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is the world’s leading archive and educational resource for the field of public opinion. Learn more through these links about our archiving processes, how to become a member and enable full access to Roper data, or how to become a Roper Center data provider.
 

A sample Roper Trend of Supreme Court approval ratings 2000-2023 exported from the iPoll database.
A sample Roper Trend of Supreme Court approval ratings 2000-2023 exported from the iPoll database.

 

 

A chart exported from iPoll of Supreme Court approval ratings in November 2023
A chart of Supreme Court approval ratings in November 2023 exported from Roper  iPoll