Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

06/03/2026

Our lead engineer, Gene Wang, will be presenting at , “Tackling Data Archival and Management using a Centralized System.” Learn more: https://bit.ly/3RU2rHU

06/02/2026

Thank you to everyone who visited us at .

We enjoyed meeting new friends, catching up with familiar faces, and learning about what’s new in survey research and data collection.

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06/01/2026

Be sure to include the Roper Center as your designated long-term data repository in your grant proposals to formalize your Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMSP). Need help? Start here: https://bit.ly/4ey3MNS

Indicate to your prospective funders that you’re prepared to preserve by writing the Roper Center into your grant proposal. Contact us for more details and to learn about our success stories: https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/contact-us

05/29/2026

“Those polls came from the Roper Center, which I, like anyone who loves public opinion, use every day and is invaluable.” Harry Enten, CNN
https://cnn.it/4nNevH1

05/27/2026

New Pioneers of Polling to add to your collection: Jean G. McDonnell Converse and Philip E. Converse. Learn about these trailblazers from the Roper Center: https://bit.ly/4tc6vQN

05/26/2026

Congrats to Aidan Milliff and Paul Staniland University of Chicago on the new book https://bit.ly/4d7kXUe, using USIA/IIPO surveys from 1959-2001 as part of a review of Indian opinion from the 50s to today. View the USIA data in Roper iPoll: https://bit.ly/4ncxQBc

05/25/2026

Did you miss our last Roper Roundtable with journalists, Ariel Edwards-Levy, Philip Bump, and Nathaniel Rakich? Never fear and find the recording here! https://bit.ly/41GoJ1B

05/25/2026

As we commemorate , we remember those who served our country. Public opinion data can offer insights into how Americans have viewed military service, veterans, and national security over time. https://bit.ly/3EgdeWx

05/22/2026

“The Roper Center's iPoll archive made accessing fifty years of public opinion surveys on voting behavior, political identity, and civic engagement remarkably straightforward. The breadth of the archive and the ease of the data access process allowed me and my research team to construct a rich historical dataset that would have been difficult to assemble any other way.” - Jacob Bastian, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University

05/21/2026

📰Ben Rossi at @‌MaristCircle provides a great recap of our most recent Roper Roundtable.

Roper Roundtable brings together leading journalists to discuss the role of polling in modern reporting.