Election Data at Roper Center

Explore the newly acquired 2014 NEP Election Day Exit Polls & 2016 NEP State Primary Exit Polls, available now at the Roper Center. The 2014 election day collection features the 2014 national dataset as well as 27 state-level datasets. The 2016 state primary collection includes data from 55 primaries. Access more at Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Presidential Debates and Election Data @ Roper Center

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Third-Party Candidates: A history Much Approved! Popular ToolEnhanced Post Election Panel in Washington D.C. November 16th

Curbed Enthusiasm: Voting in 2016  Podiums, Platforms, and Polls: Public Opinion on the Election Debates Presidential Candidate Favorability Polls, Candidates, and Tax Returns Madame President: Changing Attitudes about a Woman President Exit polls and other resources Election 2016 in iPOLL: 4000 questions and growing

Roper Center's Convention and Elections Resources!

Excited about the upcoming conventions?!  Roper Center has some great polling data about conventions and party issues, especially historical data! Anyone can read their recent articles about public perceptions of conventions over time and the 1968 Democratic Convention. We subscribe to this wonderful resource at UNCG and you can find much more data through our database access.

Like watching the debates?

Check out polling data on the debates through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research! The Center has moved to Cornell Univ and has a brand new look.

Pew Hispanic Center National Surveys of Latinos available in Roper Center

Check out these new additions to UNCG's Roper Center subscription. Use the library link to download!

2009 and 2010 Pew Hispanic Center National Surveys of Latinos Available!

Datasets for the 2009 and 2010 National Surveys of Latinos conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center have been archived and are now available for download.

Pew Hispanic Center 2009 National Survey of Latinos focused primarily on Latino youth, including questions regarding educational experiences, identity, discrimination, social values, teen sexual activity, parental relationships, crime, and media and technology use. While Latinos ages 16-25 were oversampled, Latinos ages 26 and older were also interviewed in regards to almost all of the survey topics, as well.

Pew Hispanic Center 2010 National Survey of Latinos focused on politics and the 2010 midterm elections, Hispanic leadership, attitudes regarding immigration and enforcement, discrimination, and technology and media use.

Election polling for the political nerd in you!

Through our Roper Center membership we now have access to fourteen USA Today/Gallup Organization studies from July-September 2012. The polls cover the presidential elections and the republic and democratic conventions! Take a look at the list of studies to see the topics. You can also use iPOLL to search for individual questions about the 2012 elections. Check out Roper Center for Public Opinion Research for more polling goodness.

You may need to use main access link if you are off-campus. Let us know if you have questions!

Data from Roper Center on 9/11

What were Americans thinking & feeling immediately following 9/11?

FREE data on the tenth anniversary of 9/11— NBC News Terrorism Poll and NBC News & The Wall Street Journal New York City/Pentagon Terrorist Attacks Poll. Download datasets in SPSS/PASW along with their codebooks to get a more in-depth analysis of what Americans were thinking and feeling on the days immediately following 9/11 at Surveys from the days following September 11, 2001.

Members can access toplines for this data using the links below:

• NBC Poll # 6018: Terrorism (United States) [USNBC2001-6018]
  Survey by NBC News. Conducted by Hart-Teeter Research Companies, field dates: September 12, 2001, sample: National adult.
• NBC/WSJ Poll # 6019: New York City/Pentagon Terrorist Attacks (United States) [USNBCWSJ2001-6019]
  Survey by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal. Conducted by Hart-Teeter Research Companies, field dates: September 15-16, 2001, sample: National adult. RoperExplorer is also available for online analysis of this dataset (Off-campus access for UNCG faculty, students, and staff only).
  

Roper brings us cross-tabs!

Roper Center has added a sweet new feature to iPoll.

"You can look at demographic cross-tabulations for over 50,000 questions asked in the US since 2000. The group data is integrated directly into iPOLL and is presented automatically with the question results wherever available. Access to results by gender, age, education, region and more, has never been easier! Just click on the group tab!"

From the iPoll search results screen, look for poll questions with a Question Detail icon that has a green plus sign (see image below).



This indicates you can access the cross-tabs. You will get results like this.


Pretty nifty!

What do you really know about the Tea Party?

Roper Center just added the CBS/NY Times Tea Party Movement Poll dataset: "From April 5-12, 2010, CBS News and New York Times interviewed a sample of national adults including an oversample of Tea Party supporters about their views on the current state of government and the economy. The study includes a series of questions about the respondents involvement with the Tea Party, as well as views of the movement."

You can also generate crosstabs on this dataset before downloading by using RoperExplorer, the new online data analysis system. Want to see the percentage of tea party supporters by gender, age, or race? Simple enough. Questions about using the dataset or RoperExplorer? Just ask Lynda!

Coming soon from the roper center!

The Roper Center recently announced it will begin to use an online analysis system called SDA (also used by IPUMS and ICPSR). This system allows users to conduct secondary analysis on about 1,500 surveys without having SPSS, SAS, or STATA. The system will be launched soon. Check The Roper Center for more information.

The future is an amazing place!

Cool tools from Roper Center

Interested in polling data and learning more about polling techniques? The Roper Center is just the resource for you! Check out their recent blog post on Education Tools and more.

Education Tools Available

Roper Center offers a series of tutorials on some of the fundamentals of public opinion polling, including definitions, examples, and explanations that serve to introduce interested students to the field of public opinion research, also covers the basics of analysis and interpretation of the results.

• POLLING 101: Fundamentals of Polling. Definitions, examples, explanations.
• POLLING 201: Analyzing Polls. Analysis techniques and data interpretation.
• Teaching Tools. Great exercises for students.

Hot Topic - Immigration

Amend constitution so children of illegal immigrants born in US do not get citizenship?


Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Interviewing conducted by Abt SRBI, June 16-June 20, 2010. [USSRBI.062410P.R60]

Related information can be found by searching the Center's iPOLL Databank or by visiting Topics At A Glance--Immigration on the Roper Center website.

A World of Data

Would you like to see polling data on the mood of the country as we move into the election? Do you need to know about differences in political attitudes based on age, race, or ethnicity? UNCG’s University Libraries has membership in two data archives that can assist you with these questions and more—the ICPSR and the Roper Center.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research is the world’s largest archive of social science data. Through UNCG’s membership, faculty, staff, and students have access to over 6,300 studies from every discipline of the social sciences.

Also, faculty, staff, and students now have access to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. The Roper Center is an archive of 500,000 questions from national opinion survey organizations and news sources, such as Gallup and the Wall Street Journal.

If you would like to learn more about our membership, please contact Lynda Kellam, Data Services and Government Information Librarian, through the Data and Numeric Services Website.