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Public opinion polls for historians

Data archives

ipoll databank (Roper) Note: Restricted to academic research by Princeton University faculty and students. Registration is required but is free for IPOLL. IPOLL does not include outside the USA. International holdings are kept separately.
Comprehensive, up-to-date source for national public opinion. The database is a full-text retrieval system updated daily and organized at the question-level, providing tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935.

Odum Institute for Research in Social Science

ICPSR

Finding questions

American public opinion index
Continued by: Polling the nations (Online)
To locate the data in this index, note the poll codes and dates, then see:

American public opinion data [microform] 

Polling the Nations  (1986+)
Compilation of public opinion surveys conducted in the United States and more than 80 other countries. Each record includes the question asked and the responses given, the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and the groups or areas included in the interview.

Periodicals

Public opinion 1886-1906.
Absorbed by: Literary digest 

Literary digest 1890-1938