American FactFinder [Details]
Allows searching by zipcode and census tract. Population, housing, economic, and geographical data from the US Bureau of the Census
  Annenberg Public Policy Center [Details]
Research and data sets on political communication, information and society, media and children and health communication. Registration required for some data sets.
  ICPSR [Details]
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Click for searching tips.
  Pew Research Center [Details]
"The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does so by conducting public opinion polling and social science research; by reporting news and analyzing news coverage; and by holding forums and briefings. It does not take positions on policy issues."
  Polling the Nation [Details]
The database includes 12,000 surveys and 250,000 questions on more than 3,500 topics. Scope is international, from the United States, to more than 60 other countries.
  Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Details]
First-time users have to register. The Roper Center has a large archive of public opinion information. It contains nearly 500,000 questions and responses from national public opinion surveys going back to 1935. Among the many survey sources are Gallup, Harris, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC. The archive includes full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses using RoperExpress.
  Statistical (Lexis Nexis) [Details]
Provides the index and abstracts to American Statistics Index (U.S. government statistical sources). Contains over 100,000 statistical publications and is searchable by subject, category, title and author.
  The Gallup Poll [Details]
Each annual volume contains findings of more than 500 daily Gallup Poll reports. Print resource REF HN90.P8 G35

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