Biblioteca Felipe Herrera

Elites Parlamentarias de America Latina

LAPOP-Latin American Public Opinion Project
LAPOP surveys the citizens of Latin America on democratic values and their behaviors related to democracy. PDF reports from the survey archives representing results from Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela are available on the Web site. Datasets are available from center for an administrative charge.

Latin American Databank (LAD)
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research archives public opinion surveys for Latin America. Established in 1969, LAD holds nearly 1,000 studies from 16 countries, with the largest contributions coming from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. Data only available to Roper Express customers.

Latinobarometro
Annual survey of public opinion in 18 countries in Latin America. Coverage: 1995-2004.
To analyze the results online requires password for payment, but PDF summaries of the survey results are available under the “Press” pull down.

By Latin American country:

Apoyo SA (Peru)

Centro de Estudios Publicos (Chile)

Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Contemporánea (Chile)

Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile)

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Asiabarometer
Comparative survey in Asia covering East, Southeast, South and central Asia. For English version, hit “cancel” when it asks if you want to install language pack. Results available from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. Coverage: 2003-2005. Eurobarometer

Gallup International (subscription required)
Provides surveys from internationally experts in political opinion polling, sociological research, Third World issues, advertising and media research as well as in the commercial fields of automotive, economic and corporate research and so on.

Japanese Data Archive
Contains public opinion questions from Japan’s major survey research sources. Users can search for public opinion questions using keywords, topics, dates, and organizations as search criteria.
Coverage: 1980-1998. Free registration required.

Mansfield Asian Opinion Poll Database
The site offers opinion polls on key policy-related issues from major media organizations and other agencies in Japan and South Korea. These polls were previously not available in English.
Coverage: 2004-2006.

Pew Global Attitudes Project
Series of worldwide public opinion surveys that encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day.

The Roper Center’s poll (subscription required)
The Roper Center has collected a large variety of polling data from many of the academic, commercial, international, and media survey organizations throughout the world. iPOLL provides question-level access to a database providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935, searchable by basic keywords with limits, or browsing by organization or topic. Each record gives survey methodology, question, and responses by percentile. Those without a subscription have free access to the “Public Opinion Matters” section.

World Public Opinion.org (WPO)
The Program on International Policy Attitudes to provide a source of in-depth information and analysis on public opinion from around the world on international issues. Covers national, cross-national, and international surveys. Summary reports of survey results. Also includes Americans & the World, a source on U.S. public opinion on international issues and The Digest, which provides analyses of polling on various international topics.

World Values Survey
The site contains the data from the four waves of the Values Surveys, carried out in 1981-84, 1980-93, 1989-1993 and 1999-2004. These data are integrated into one dataset, to facilitate time series analysis.

Zogby International
An international polling firm established in 1984, provides current news releases and articles from third-party sources that feature data from Zogby polls, and “Trends over Time” providing users with time-series data relating to current topics in the media. Registered users are allowed to view survey results.

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Polling 101 (The Roper Center for Public Opinion)
Tutorial that is intended to offer a simplified glimpse into some of the fundamentals of public opinion polling. Polling 101 describes the basic principles of polling and sampling in a question-and-answer format.

Gallup Brain (subscription required)
This site provides access to more than 70 years of Gallup polling data, while the analysis articles go back to 1997. Users can search by basic keyword or an advanced search with limits by date and data type, or browse by decade, topics, and trends. While a subscription to Gallup’s On-Demand service is required to access detailed data through this site or Gallup’s main site (poll.gallup.com), there is limited free access to recently published analysis articles and selected recent questionnaires.

National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
NORC has been conducting specialized surveys on local, national, and international public opinion. Current major research areas are economics and population; education and child development; health survey, program, and policy research; substance abuse, mental health, and criminal justice; and statistics and methodology. Depending upon the study, users can view questionnaires, datasets, frequencies, or analyses.

Pew Research Center
The Web site acts as a gateway for the other “project” Web sites being conducted by Pew Research, such as the Pew Study of People and the Press (surveys back to 1987) and Stateline.

Pew Hispanic Center
Chronicling Latinos diverse experiences in a changing America.

Public Agenda
Founded by Daniel Yankelovich and Cyrus Vance in 1975, Public Agenda’s mission is to make citizens aware of policy issues from a nonpartisan perspective and to understand the public point of view. Use the “Issue Guides” to find facts, view differing opinions, look at common misperceptions, and locate lists of key pollsters for the issues. Click on “Research Studies” for other data. Free registration is required for some data.

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