Professional Associations
American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
http://www.aapor.org
Of special interest: Sources of Variation in Published Election Polling: A Primer, by Cliff Zukin
http://www.aapor.org/pdfs/varsource.pdf
20 Questions A Journalist Should Ask About Poll Results, by Sheldon R. Gawiser and G. Evans Witt
http://www.ncpp.org/qajsa.htm
American Statistical Association
http://www.amstat.org
Of special interest: Brochures on survey research, including a series called, "What Is a Survey?"
http://www.amstat.org/sections/srms/whatsurvey.html
CMOR
Nonprofit organization that promotes and advocates for survey research.
http://www.cmor.org/
Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO)
http://www.casro.org
National Council on Public Polls (NCPP)
http://www.ncpp.org/
World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR)
http://www.unl.edu/WAPOR/
Of special interest: The Freedom to Publish Opinion Poll Results: Report on a Worldwide Update
http://www.unl.edu/WAPOR/Opinion%20polls%202003%20final%20version.pdf
Research Centers and Data Archives
American Religion Data Archive (ARDA)
A collection of data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups. Includes codebooks and data files for over three hundred religion surveys available for download.
http://www.thearda.com/arda.asp?Show=Home
Of special interest: A "create your own survey" feature that allows users to search or browse data files for questions they may use in their own research.
http://www.thearda.com/arda.asp?Show=Home
Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA)
http://www.policyattitudes.org/
Centre for Policy Alternatives
A nonpartisan World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) member center.
http://www.cpalanka.org/
Of special interest: the Centre's polling unit, which includes a recurring social indicator series called the Peace Confidence Index.
http://www.cpalanka.org/polling.html
European Commission, public opinion analysis sector
http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/index_en.htm
Of special interest: Excellent listing of links for social science data archives and opinion poll institutes throughout the world.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/links_en.htm
Health Poll Search
A collaborative effort between the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Roper Center, this searchable database contains more than 60,000 questions on health care-related issues asked on surveys over the last sixty years.
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_poll/hpoll_index.cfm
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
National Election Studies (NES)
http://www.umich.edu/~nes/
Of special interest: The National Election Studies Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
http://www.umich.edu/~nes/nesguide/nesguide.htm
National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/
Of special interest: The General Social Survey (GSS)
http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/projects/gensoc.asp
National Network of State Polls (NNSP)
http://survey.rgs.uky.edu/nnsp/abtnnsp.htm
The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
http://www2.irss.unc.edu/irss/home.asp
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
The oldest and largest archives of polling data in the world. Fantastically comprehensive database of polls going back to the 1930s and an enormous library of survey datasets, available by subscription or ad hoc purchase.
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/
Of special interest: A tutorial on the basics of public opinion polling http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/pom/polling101.html
Publications
PollingReport.com
Our competitor. Fewer articles, more data. By subscription, but much material is accessible for free.
http://www.pollingreport.com/
Miscellaneous Survey-Related Sites
SDA: Survey Documentation and Analysis
http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502/
Many of the above links, along with many others, are listed on links pages of other organizations at the following URLs:
Data Directory
A guide to public opinion data published on the internet by nonpartisan organizations, provided by the Washington Post. Particularly good listing of links for state polls.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/datadir.htm#acad
European Commission, public opinion analysis sector
http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/links_en.htm
Harvard Opinion Research Program
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/horp/
Monclair State University Harry A. Sprague Library
"Public Opinion & Survey Resources on the Internet" is a very comprehensive and well-organized list of links to survey data and polling-related websites, guides to such data and sites, sites that focus on particular topics, and sites that offer information about survey methodology and public opinion practice.
http://library.montclair.edu/Rodriguez/Public%20Opinion%20Guide.html
Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources
Who is Richard Kimber? Who knows? His website, described as "a gateway to most significant resources relevant to the study of politics and government," is great, offering a staggering number (over 3,000) and range of useful links to websites from all over the world (plus a blog containing the site owner's own unabashedly opinionated comments on current issues in Great Britain and elsewhere).
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
Of special interest: A long list of links to data archives, polling organizations, and other resources of interest to the field of public opinion research, including links pages posted on other websites.
http://www.thearda.com/arda.asp?Show=Home
A page of links to websites on political thought, many of which collectively offer the full texts of thousands of original works on the subject.
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/thought.htm
University of Michigan Documents Center: Public and Lobby Opinion on Legislative Issues
Includes links to a huge amount of government information and records, websites of and information about lobby groups, and public opinion data. Some of the resources are restricted to University of Michigan users, and a few of the links are dead, but it is still a great list.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/opinion.html
University of Kansas Communications Studies Department
An excellent listing of websites for public opinion centers worldwide. Academic survey sites are rated on a scale of one to four stars.
http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/po/
Other useful websites
A Journalist's Guide to the Internet
A terrific collection of links to information resources and reference tools sorted into sixteen categories, including politics, courts and the law, federal government, records and FOIA, online newspapers, search tools, and business and nonprofits.
http://reporter.umd.edu/
FedStats
A gateway to statistics from over 100 United States federal government agencies
http://www.fedstats.gov/
Links from bibliography
Public Perspective search page
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/pp_subj.html
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