U.S. State Collection

The Roper Center at Cornell University is proud to announce a new initiative to make questions from U.S. state-level polls available in the Roper iPoll database.

In response to the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s call for the polling community to invest more resources in studying and improving U.S. state polling, the Roper Center has created the U.S. State Collection to aid this research by making thousands of questions easily accessible and by including detailed methodological information, such as exact question wording, sample size, and survey method.

View a short video on the collection here on YouTube.

The new question database includes state polls from major national polling organizations and some of the oldest and most respected state-level polling series. The U.S. State Collection currently includes several thousand questions from polls of recent years and is growing daily as questions are added from both newly released state polls and Roper’s historical dataset collection. The historical dataset collection holds over 4,000 U.S. state polling datasets dating back to 1940, including Archibald Crossley’s seminal 1944 election polls, Joe Belden’s Texas Poll, Mervyn Field’s California Poll, the Iowa Poll, the Los Angeles Times Poll, and state exit polls back to 1978. The collection will ultimately contain more than 100,000 questions.

The new U.S. State Collection includes polls from both the Longstanding Methods Collection and the Recently Developed Methods Collection to better support essential research into survey methodology at the state level. A partial list of organizations to be represented in the State of the U.S. States Collection includes:

Organization	Orgs cont.
ABC News	Minnesota Star Tribune
AP Votecast	Monmouth University
CBS News	National Election Pool/Edison Research
CNN	NPR
Eagleton (Rutgers)	Quinnipiac University
Fairleigh Dickinson University	Siena College
Gallup	Suffolk University
Glengariff Group	Stockton University
Harvard Opinion Research Program	The Upshot
Kaiser Family Foundation	University of Maryland
Marquette Law Poll	USA Today
Marist College	Vanderbilt University Poll
MassInc	The Wason Center
Middle Tennessee State University	Washington Post

Roper Center invites all polling organizations conducting polls at the state level to submit their data to the State Collection. Contact data-services@ropercenter.org.

Using the search homepage in Roper iPoll, users can select which states and/or the District of Columbia they would like to include in their search (be sure to click “Additional Search Filters”).

state data

For further information on this collection please contact Data Services.

Also included in this collection are a large number of state-level surveys still in paper formats. Highlights include polls on anti-semitism in rural Iowa and Nebraska, gambling in Connecticut, and a 1993 study of racial views in North Carolina. Contact Data Services if you are interested in learning more about the surveys in the table below.

Box	State	Date	Description
1	Alabama	1980-2008:	Alabama State Data Center Capstone Poll: 1980-87 Hastings-Wyman's Southern Political Report (mostly 1990s-2008)
2	Alaska	1978-2011	Education Choice, AK Permanent Fund, Cold War, medical marijuana, elections
3	Arizona	1978-2004	Title: ABC News-Behavorial Research Center: 1987 Mostly Rocky Mountain Polls 1978-1990
4	Arizona	1990-1998	Title: Behavioral Research Center: 1991-1998 Mostly Rocky Mountain Polls 1991-1998
5	Arizona	1999-2001	Title: Behavioral Research Center: 1999-2001 Mostly Rocky Mountain Polls 1999-2001
6	Arizona	2001-2003	Title: Behavioral Research Center: 2001-2003 Mostly Rocky Mountain Polls 2001-2003
7	Arizona	2003-2006	Title: Behavioral Research Center: 2003-2006 Mostly Rocky Mountain Polls 2003-2006
8	Arizona	2007-2012	Title: Behavioral Research Center: 2007-present Mostly Rocky Mountain Polls 2007-2012
9	Arizona	1990-2012	Title: CNN-Zogby International Assorted polls: political, economic, race, et al
10	Arkansas	1980-2009	Title: Arkansas Journal-Zogby Assorted; many from Southern Political Report, most from 2000s
11	California	1979-2012	Title: ABC News-E; CA Opinion Index (1979-2004) Recall Election 2003
12	California	1960-1968	Title: Field Institute, 10/3/60-10/31/68 The CA Poll (Yale U.)/Field Research Company
13	California	1969-1074	Title: Field Institute, 2/5/69-11/19/74 The CA Poll (Yale U.)/Field Research Company
14	California	1974-1977	Title: Field Institute, 12/7/74-11/15/77 The CA Poll (Yale U.)/Field Research Company Special studies (1977): economic growth, environment, energy
15	California	1978	Title: CA Field Institute, 1978 Mostly the CA Poll
16	California	1979-1980	Title: CA Field Institute, 1979-1980 Mostly the CA Poll
17	California	1981-1984	Title: CA Field Institute, 1981-1984 All CA Poll
18	California	1985-1986	Title: CA Field Institute, 1985-1986 Mostly the CA Poll CA general election poll (1986)
19	California	1987-1990	Title: Field Institute, 1987-1990 All CA Poll
20	California	1991-1993	Title: Field Institute, 1991-1993 All CA Poll
21	California	1994-1996	Title: Field Institute, 1994-1996 Field Poll & CA Poll
22	California	1997-2001	Title: Field Institute, 1997-2001 Field Poll & CA Poll
23	California	2001-2004	Title: Field Institute, 2001-May 2004 Field Poll December 2001-May 2004
24	California	2004-2006	Title: Field Institute, July 2004-September 2006 Assorted Field Polls/Research
25	California	2006-2009	Title: Field Institute, October 2006-2009 Assorted Field Polls/Research
26	California	2010-2012	Title: Field Institute, 2010-July 2012 Assorted Field Polls/Research
27	California	2012-2013	Title: Field Institute, 2012-present (February 2013) Assorted Field Polls/Research
28	California	1991-2001	Title: Gallup-Kaiser Family Foundation Assorted polls
29	California	1981-2005	Title: Kaplan-Lieberman Research Worldwide Assorted polls
30	California	1982-1985	Title: LA Times, 1982-1985 LA Times polls
31	California	1986-1997	Title: LA Times, 1986-1997 LA Times polls
32	California	1997-2003	Title: LA Times, 1997-2003 LA Times polls
33	California	2004-2008	Title: LA Times, 2004-present LA Times polls
34	California	1978-2010	Title: ORC-Zogby International Assorted polls: mostly 1990s-2010
35	Colorado	1987-2012	Title: Ciruli Association-Zogby International Assorted--mostly elections/politics
36	Connecticut	1977-2006	Title: ABC News-Connecticut Business & Industry Association Assorted polls; large study on gambling 1977
37	Connecticut	1979-1981	Title: Connecticut Poll/ISI, 1979-1981 Includes a lot of SSDC at UConn
38	Connecticut	1982-1984	Title: ConnPoll/ISI 1982
39	Connecticut	1983-1986	Title: ConnPoll/ISI 1983-1985
40	Connecticut	1987-1988	Title: ConnPoll/ISI 1987-1988
41	Connecticut	1989	Title: ConnPoll/ISI 1989
42	Connecticut	1990-1992	Title: ConnPoll/ISI 1990
43	Connecticut	1992-1994	Title: ConnPoll/ISI 1992-1994
44	Connecticut	1995-1997	Title: ConnPoll/ISI 1995-1997
45	Connecticut	1998-2002	Title: ConnPoll/ISI 1995-1998
46	Connecticut	2000-2008	Title: Council for Survey Research & Analysis (CSRA)
47	Connecticut	1984-2010	Title: Gallup-Quinnipiac 2002 Assorted topics
48	Connecticut	2003-2010	Title: Quinnipiac 2003-July 2010 Assorted topics
49	Connecticut	1985-2013	Title: Quinnipiac-Zogby Quinnipiac mostly 2010-2013 Zogby 1999-2006; Report on Education (1985)
50	Delaware	1981-2010	Title: ABC News-SPINA/Delaware State University Mostly 1999-2010; includes 1985 report on "Mood of the Public" in DE by Professor Spina
51	DC	1996-2012	Various topics, includes many articles from the Washington Post
52	Florida	1985-2012	Title: CBS/NYT-Florida State Univ. 1985 Includes 1986 General Election Poll and many copies of Florida Public Opinion (1985-87)
53	Florida	1986-2004	Title: FSU-Gallup Organization 1986 Gallup mostly 2003-04; half of box contains Florida Annual Policy Surveys (1986-94)
54	Florida	1982-2012	Title: Greenberg Quinlan Rosner-NY Times Assorted polls, clippings, reports
55	Florida	1978-2012	Title: ORC-Zogby International Mostly 1995-2012; includes clippings (& entire editions) of St. Petersburg Times (1978-79)
56	Georgia	1985-2007	Title: Atlanta Journal-Rasmussen Research
57	Georgia	1984-2008	Title: Univ. of Georgia-Zogby International Assorted polls
58	Hawaii	1999-2011	Title: Kaiser-Woelfel Research
59	Idaho	1997-2011	Title: Mellman-Univ. of Wyoming
60	Illinois	1980-2006	Title: AARP-McLaughlin & Associates Half of box contains 1986 General Election Poll
61	Illinois	1984-2010	Title: Northern Illinois Univ.-Zogby International Half of box contains Illinois Policy Surveys (1984-93)
62	Indiana	1985-2010	Title: ABC-Zogby International
63	Iowa	1977-2011	Title: ABC News-Des Moines Register & Tribune Co. 1977; Half of box contains Iowa Poll Releases (1977-84)
64	Iowa	1982-1997	Title: Des Moines Register & Tribune Co. 1982 Iowa Poll Annual Reports (plastic comb bindings)
65	Iowa	1985-2012	Title: Des Moines Register & Tribune Co. 1985- Mason-Dixon Poll; half of box contains Iowa Poll Releases (1985-94); also includes study of anti-semitism in rural Iowa and Nebraska (1986)
66	Iowa	1986-2011	Title: NBC News-Zogby International A third of box contains 1986 General Election Poll
67	Kansas	1980-1999	Title: Rasmussen-Wallace Farmer Opinion Polls 2 folders-mostly Wallace Farmer Polls (1980-83)
68	Kentucky	1993-2006	Title: Hastings-Zogby International Mostly Southern Political Reports
69	Louisiana	1991-2012	Title: ABC News-Hastings Wyman's Mostly Hastings Wyman's Southern Political Reports Some ABC & CBS
70	Louisiana	1976-2012	Title: ICR-Zogby A good bit of University of New Orleans Polls
71	Maine	1990-2009	Title: Human Services Development Institute- Zogby International
72	Maryland	1978-2013	Title: Baltimore Sun-Zogby International Includes large folder with Baltimore Sun clippings
73	Massachusetts	1987-2012	Title: Boston Globe-KRC Communications Research
74	Massachusetts	1979-2012	Title: New England Institute for Political Research-Zogby
75	Michigan	1980-2012	Title: AARP-Epic/MRA 2005; Mostly reports
76	Michigan	1986-2012	Title: Epic/MRA 2006-Zogby Includes 1986 general election poll
77	Minnesota	1947-2006	Title: Fabrizio, McLaughlin, & Associates, Inc.- Minnesota Poll 1947; post-WWII clippings
78	Minnesota	1981-1987	Title: Minnesota Poll Poll 1981-1997
79	Minnesota	1997-2009	Title: Minnesota Poll Poll 1997-Zogby
80	Mississippi	1981-2012	Title: Edison Media Research-Rasmussen Research mostly late 1990s-2012; 1981 poll of political attitudes in Mississippi
81	Missouri	1967-2006	Title: ABC News-Zogby International includes 1977 poll that shows Missouri support for nuclear energy; 1967 Missouri Poll
82	Montana	1989-2011	Title: ABC News-Zogby
83	Nebraska	1986-2011	Title: ABC-Rasmussen Research
84	Nevada	1988-2012	Title: AARP-Zogby; Mostly 1999-2012
85	New Hampshire	1988-2005	Title: AARP-Franklin Pierce College/WNDS Poll
86	New Hampshire	1988-2012	Title: Gallup Organization-Suffolk University Many primary polls
87	New Hampshire	1987-2012	Title: Time-Zogby
88	New Jersey	1977-2009	Title: ABC News-Eagleton/Star Ledger 1977-1984
89	New Jersey	1985-1993	Title: Eagleton/Star Ledger 1985-1993 poll releases
90	New Jersey	1988-1995	Title: Eagleton/Star Ledger 1988-1995 polls & questionnaires
91	New Jersey	1996-2000	Title: Eagleton/Star Ledger 1996-2000 polls & reports
92	New Jersey	2001-2012	Title: Eagleton/Star Ledger 2001-2004 includes 2012 folder on "Superstorm Sandy"
93	New Jersey	2001-2009	Title: Gallup-Monmouth University Polling Institute 2008
94	New Jersey	2009-2013	Title: Gallup-Monmouth University Polling Institute 2009-2013
95	New Jersey	1985-2006	New York Times-Zogby International
96	New Mexico & New York	1980-2012 1988-2012	Title: New York AARP-CBS News mostly New York material (90%)
97	New York	1980-2010	Title: City Exit-Ipsos Includes polls on healthcare (1985) & teen pregnancy (1988)
98	New York	1988-1999	Title: LA Times-Marist 1999; mostly Marist Polls
99	New York	2002-2009	Title: Marist College 2000-October 2009 All Marist Institute for Public Opinion
100	New York	2009-2011	Title: Marist College November 2009-July 2011 All Marist Institute for Public Opinion
101	New York	2011-2013	Title: Marist College September 2011-present All Marist Institute for Public Opinion
102	New York	1998-2010	Title: Miscellaneous-ORC Includes large folder of 1990 NY Observer poll
103	New York	1992-2012	Title: Pace Poll Survey-Roper includes large folder with 1994 Quinnipiac poll on governor's race & folder with "study of Intergroup Relations in NYC" done by Roper for American Jewish Committee
104	New York	1979-2010	Title: Stony Brook University-Zogby includes 1979 study on attitudes about legal gambling large folder of 1986 General Election Poll
105	North Carolina	1990-2008	Title: AARP-Hastings Wyman's includes folder with many clippings from the Charlotte Observer
106	North Carolina	1993-2012	Title: Howard, Merrel, & Partners-Zogby Includes 1993 study of racial views in North Carolina
107	North Dakota	1979-2009	No Title: includes 1979 NORC publication "Dakota Farmers & Ranchers Evaluate Crop & Livestock Surveys
108	Ohio	1980-2012	Title: AARP-Quninnipiac Columbus Dispatch Poll 1980-1985
109	Ohio	1981-2000	Title: Rasmussen-University of Cincinnati 1996 1979 study on public attitudes about reproductive freedom by Planned Parenthood
110	Ohio	1997-2006	Title: University of Cincinnati 1997-Zogby
111	Oklahoma	1980-2012	Title: Oklahoma Poll 1980-1989
112	Oregon	1980-2008	No Title:GMA Polls from early 1980s
113	Pennsylvania	1988-2010	Title: ABC-PSRAI; Includes 1988 study of public attitudes on teen pregnancy
114	Pennsylvania	1986-2012	Title: Quinnipiac University Poll-Zogby International Poll; Includes 1986 General Election Poll
115	Rhode Island	1986-2003	Title: ABC News-Brown University Large folder of Alpha Research Associates Poll releases
116	Rhode Island	1977-2006	Title: Crossley Surveys-Tortorello Research Includes collective bargaining study 1977-78
117	South Carolina	1988-2008	Title: ABC News-Hastings Wyman's Southern Political Reports
118	South Carolina	1980-2012	Title: ICR-Zogby International 1980 study of public attitudes on government, taxes, & quality of community services
119	South Dakota	1988-2012	No Title: 1988 ABC S. Dakota Primary Poll
120	Tennessee	2002-2013	No Title: Assorted polls
121	Texas	1986-2013	Title: CBS-General Election Poll 1986
122	Texas	1982-2013	Title: Hastings Wyman's Southern Political Report- Sam Houston State University
123	Texas	1972-2011	Title: The Texas Poll-Zogby International ALRge quantity from 1980s/early 1990s; several documents from Texas A & M's "Public Policy Resources Laboratory," including Belden Texas Poll Continuity Guide, 1954-1972
124	Texas	1940-1950	Title: Texas Surveys of Public Opinion 1940-1950
125	Texas	1951-1966	Title: Texas Surveys of Public Opinion 1951-1966
126	Texas	1967-1977	Title: Texas Surveys of Public Opinion 1967-1977
127	Utah	1981-2011	No Title: Clippings from early 80s (various topics)
128	Vermont	1988-2012	No Title: ABC 1988 Vermont Primary Poll
129	Virginia	2004-2012	Title: ABC News-Hasting Wyman's Southern Political Report
130	Virginia	1979-2012	Title: Marist-Zogby; substantial 1979 Virginia Poll by North American Marketing
131	Washington	1987-2012	No Title: includes 1995 "Elway Poll" toplines (several throughout 1995)
132	West Virginia	1982-2010	No Title: Various WV Polls from early 1980s
133	Multi-State	1988-2012	Title: Ipsos-LA Times; 1988 "Super Tuesday" poll of southern states
134	Multi-State	1981-2012	Title: Marist-ORC; includes 1988 NBC primary poll (various states)
135	Wisconsin	1975-2012	No Title: includes polls from 1975-1980s by Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel on various topics also, various "Wisconsin Survey Reports" by St. Norber College (1987-1989)
136	Wyoming	1978-2009	No Title: Includes "1978 Election Year Survey" by University of Wyoming
137	Multi-State	1988-2012	Title: ABC News-Darden Research Corporation, includes 1988 ABC & CBS exit polls/primaries
138	Multi-State	2000-2008	Title: Edison/Mitofsky-Fox News; mostly 2006 "America Votes" exit polls by Edison/Mitofsky for CNN.com
139	Multi-State	1995-2003	Title: Hasting Wyman's Southern Political Report
140	Multi-State	2004-2009	Title: Hasting Wyman's Southern Political Report 2004-2009
141	Multi-State	1986-2012	Title: Pew-Tufts; Includes 1986 elections for governor & senate for each state
142	Multi-State	1990-2009	Title: University of Illinois-Zogby