Introduction to Comparative Politics: Public Opinion

"Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 600,000+ questions and responses, from 18,000+ surveys and 1,700+ polling organizations, conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world."

U.S. public opinion poll data organized by question.

The NORC project web site contains additional information about the survey and an easy to use codebook that lists the variables by subject.

Online data analysis from Berkeley's Survey Documentation and Archive for the General Social Survey. This is a great place to start exploring the General Social Survey, look at frequencies for individual questions, select individual questions for data download.

Surveys individuals in countries around the world on attitudes, values, trust, and demographics.

Annual public opinion survey interviews approximately 19,000 individuals across 18 LAC countries projectable to 400 million inhabitants.

From Vanderbilt, public opinion surveys measure democractic attitudes across LAC countries.

Series of national public attitude surveys on democracy, markets and society conducted in 12+ African nations.

Long-running series of survey data on voting, public opinion, and political participation. 1960 - 2012.

Developed with scholars in 2005 in consultation with the Global Barometer work.

Participating studies include common questions in their post-election surveys.

Public opinion surveys of European citizens since 1973.

Biennial survey across 30 nations measuring media use, social and public trust, political and social values, and more. Since 2002.

Online data analysis from Berkeley's Survey Documentation and Archive for the General Social Survey. This is a great place to start exploring the General Social Survey, look at frequencies for individual questions, select individual questions for data download.

The NORC project web site contains additional information about the survey and an easy to use codebook that lists the variables by subject.

Continuous cross-national program of surveys coordinated across 45 member countries. Users can download these datasets after registering with GESIS, the host institute. Some of these are also available through ICPSR.

From Vanderbilt, public opinion surveys measure democractic attitudes across LAC countries.

Annual public opinion survey interviews approximately 19,000 individuals across 18 LAC countries projectable to 400 million inhabitants.

Surveys Palestinian public opinion. 75 polls mostly from 1990s.

Datasets and question database covering 2000-2012.

Datasets from 1997-current.

Surveys individuals in countries around the world on attitudes, values, trust, and demographics.

200,000+ interviews across 55 countries have been conducted as part of this project.

Over 500 datasets on health and social science topics.

Datasets on the arts and public policy.

U.S. public opinion poll data organized by question.

Question-level database on Japanese public opinion (requires free registration) and the Japanese Data Archive, housed at Roper.

Archives more than 50,000 questions on health issues, in partnership between Kaiser and Roper.

This archive includes the Harris Polls from 1958, Southern Regional Public Opinion, and USA Today polls.

Search by question across more than 2600 studies in the ICPSR archive. This database covers nearly 2 million variables. Carleton-only.

Polling data of Americans and their opinions on world affairs.

Surveys people around the world on their opinions on governance, democracy, terrorism, the environment, more. 2002-2006.

Annual series in Reference.

These annual volumes are in reference.