Public Opinion Polls & Polling

The American National Election Studies (ANES) produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation. Start with the "Guide to Public Opinion."

Provides brief reports and infographics of many of its polls.

The GSS monitors and explain trends in American behaviors, demographics, and opinions.

Conducts and reports on surveys of American political and social attitudes and behaviors. Entries for surveys include a brief analysis, main findings, tables or other graphics, and a description of the methodology. Browse by year (going back to 1998) or search their Harris Poll Library.

The Center is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. Site includes survey results and article-length commentaries. Raw datasets are available for download. Extensive list of links to other opinion polls on the web.

The PollingReport.com gathers poll results from news outlets and other organizations. Information is arranged by broad topic. Each entry is brief with the questions, the results, the sponsoring organization, the date of the survey, and the margin of error.

Nonpartisan surveys and analyses of political and policy topics. Start by browsing the "Issues Guides" or the "Research Studies." Information includes people's chief concerns, bills and proposals, and topic overviews.

The Roper Center collects and archives data from polls and surveys. Check "Quick Links" for links to topics and associated survey questions and data.

Repository for data and reports for serveral large-scale scientific sample surveys such as the Survey of Consumer Attitudes, the Monitoring the Future study of high school youth, and the Retirement Research Center. Sponsored by the University of Michigan.

"Afrobarometer, a non-profit company limited by guarantee with headquarters in Ghana, is a pan-African, non-partisan survey research network that conducts public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy, and society."

"The Angus Reid Institute is a national, not-for-profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation established to enhance and encourage better understanding of issues and trends affecting economic, social, governance, philanthropy, public administration, domestic and foreign policy in Canada and its world."

"Arab Barometer is a central resource for quantitative research on the Middle East."

The Asian Barometer Survey is a comparative survey of 18 Asian states and territories.

"Makes available commercial and independent surveys to the academic, research and journalistic communities."

"Eurobarometer is the polling instrument used by the European Commission, the European Parliament and other EU institutions and agencies to monitor regularly the state of public opinion in Europe on issues related to the European Union as well as attitudes on subjects of political or social nature. "

The survey measures the attitudes, beliefs and behavior patterns of diverse populations in more than thirty nations

Covers 34 nations including all of North, Central, and South America, as well as a significant number of countries in the Caribbean

Includes reporting and analysis of public opinion polls from around the world.

The WorldPublicOpinion.org website provides information and analysis about public opinion on international policy issues from around the world.