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Guide to Published Public Opinion Statistics

Definitions: The difference between "data" and "statistics"

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Magazines

Magazines and Newsletters reporting results of public opinion surveys. The following magazines and newsletters focus exclusively on public opinion. (American Demographics concentrates on demographic information for marketers and so is a little different than pure public opinion magazines, but it might be of interest as well.) These magazines have articles, graphs and tables about recent surveys. You can often find something useful just by browsing recent issues of these magazines. (For indexes to articles in these and other magazines, see Indexes below.) For more magazines and journals, Search Roger by Subject "Public Opinion Polls Periodicals".

American demographics.
[Ithaca, N.Y., American Demographics Inc.]
UCSD Central HB 3505 A66 Current Shelves-Bound in Stacks

California opinion index.
[San Francisco, Field Institute]
UCSD Central HM 261 C26 Reference
issues since 1993 available at field.com

The Field poll.
San Francisco, CA : The Field Institute,. RELATED TITLES: Continues: California poll.
UCSD Central HM 261 C262 Reference
issues since 1996 available at field.com
Note: the California Field Poll datasets are available online as part of SSDC.

The Gallup poll monthly.
Princeton, N.J. : The Gallup Poll, 1989- Continues: Gallup report (Princeton, N.J. : 1981).
UCSD Central HM 261 A1 G34 Reference

The Public perspective : a Roper Center review of public opinion and polling.
Storrs, CT : The Center, 1989-
UCSD Central HM 261 P87 Current Shelves-Bound in Stacks


Books of U.S. public opinion results

These are examples of books that print detailed information from public opinion polls. Each one brings together lots of public opinion data and includes charts, diagrams, text and questions asked. There are many other books in the library about specific public opinion topics and about public opinion in other countries. For many more books Search Roger for "Public Opinion United States" or other countries or places.

America at the Polls, 1994
Everett Carll Ladd, editor. staff and associates of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. [Storrs, CT] : Roper Center ; University of Connecticut, c1995. ix, 159 : ill. ; 28 cm. "A Roper Center DataBook."
CUL Ref Stacks JK1968 1994 LIB USE ONLY

An American profile : opinions and behavior, 1972-1989 : opinion results on 300 high-interest issues derived from the General Social Survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center
Floris W. Wood,... Detroit : Gale Research, c1990.
UCSD Central HM261 .A447 1990 Reference
UCSD Undergrad HM261 .A447 1990 Reference

America's youth, 1977-1988
Robert Bezilla, editor. Princeton, N.J. : Gallup Organization, c1988.
UCSD Central HQ796 .A67 1988 Reference

Compendium of American public opinion
by Dennis A. Gilbert. New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Publications, c1988.
UCSD Central HN90.P8 G56 1988 Reference
UCSD Undergrad HN90.P8 G56 1988 Reference

The Gallup poll : public opinion.
(annual) Wilmington, Del. [etc.] Scholarly Resources [etc.], 1972-
UCSD Central HN 90 P8 G3 Reference

Inside America
Louis Harris. 1st ed. New York : Vintage Books, c1987.
UCSD Central HN90.P8 H37 1987
UCSD Central HN90.P8 H37 1987 Reference
UCSD Undergrad HN90.P8 H37 1987

The People, press & economics
a Times Mirror multi-nation study of attitudes toward U.S. economic issues conducted by the Gallup Organization. [S.l.] : Times Mirror, [1989].
UCSD Central HN90.P8 P46 1989 Reference

Political attitudes in the Nation and the States : Comparative State Elections Project
Merle Black, David M. Kovenock, William C. Reynolds.
Chapel Hill : Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, 1974.
Series title: Comparative State Elections Project monograph.
UCSD Central JK1967 .B55

Trends in public opinion : a compendium of survey data
by Richard G. Niemi, John Mueller, Tom W. Smith. New York : Greenwood Press, 1989.
UCSD Central HN90.P8 N53 1989 Reference


Indexes to public opinion polls

These are books and periodical indexes that list, or index, or describe public opinion polls by subject. Use these sources for finding that polls have been conducted on a particular subject.

American public opinion index.
UCSD Central HM 261z A463 Reference

The Gallup poll public opinion, 1935-1997 [computer file] (Gallup poll cumulative index)
Wilmington, DE : Scholarly Resources, c2000 CD-ROM ed.
SSH Reference CD-ROM YCD 239 (Reference CDROM Network)

Index to international public opinion.
Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press.
UCSD Central HM 261 I5 Reference

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
(See the topic "public opinion" and the related topics listed under "public opinion.")
UCSD Central Index Table -- Reference

Sourcebook of Harris national surveys : repeated questions 1963-1976
[edited by] Elizabeth Martin, Diana McDuffee and Stanley Presser ; with the assistance of Nancy H. Fultz. [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981. Series title: IRSS technical papers ; 6.
UCSD Central HN90.P8 S65 Reference

Survey data for trend analysis : an index to repeated questions in U.S. national surveys held by the Roper Public Opinion Research Center
under the editiorial direction of Philip K. Hastings ; edited by Jessie... [Williamstown, Mass.] : The Roper Public Opinion Research Center in cooperation with the Social Science Research Council, [1975?].
UCSD Central HM 261z .S9 1975 Reference

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