Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Supports Small Independent News Outlets During 2020 Election Year
Small independent news organizations will have free access to the Center’s archive through November of 2020. Between now and the 2020 election, the Roper…
Pumpkin Painting Potluck
The Roper Center’s 2nd Annual Pumpkin Painting Potluck was a huge success, with some gorgeous creations. The Eye of Sauron made an appearance, as did the…
Roper Center Gets a Visit from Dr. Raymond Fink
In August the Roper Center was honored with a visit from Raymond Fink, a Cornell alumnus (Ph.D., 1956) and a pioneer in survey research. Fink worked at…
Fifty Years Since Stonewall: The Change in Public Opinion
Polls measuring that change have increased in frequency and broadened in scope, shifting focus as new debates came to the forefront of public discussion,…
2019 Mitofsky Award Winner Announced
The Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University is pleased to announce that Patricia Moy,…
Roper Center to Archive Non-Probability Polls, Other Methods
New acquisitions policy part of larger effort to increase transparency in polling research Ithaca, NY (May 2, 2019) The Board of Directors of the…
Recent Publications Using Roper Data
Interested in seeing some of the research being performed using Roper archive data? This page pulls together a broad spectrum of our member’s recent…
National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse 1971 Poll
In response to the growing prevalence of marijuana use in youth culture in the U.S., President Richard Nixon appointed the National Commission on…
Every Second: The Impact of the Incarceration Crisis on America’s Families
Major New Criminal Justice Survey Archived The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University is excited to archive survey data behind a…
Andrew Kohut Fellowship Accepting Applications
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is now accepting applications for the 2019 Andrew Kohut Fellowship Program in Public Opinion &…
Apartheid-Era South African Survey Series
South Africa in the 1980s was a country on the verge of transition. Under increasing pressure from international and domestic opponents of the apartheid…
The Louis Harris & Associates Violence Survey
The year 1968 was a particularly brutal year for political tensions, popular agitation, and violence. The dramatic events of that year included…
Attitudes Toward Vietnam Era Veterans
The Attitudes Toward Vietnam Era Veterans Survey, conducted by Louis Harris and Associates for the Veterans Administration from November 17 - December 19…
Assassination Nation: Public Responses to King and Kennedy in 1968
In 1968, even more so than in most years, the news was bleak – the carnage in Vietnam, race riots, violence in the streets at the Democratic National…
US-Russia Survey: A Cross-Country Poll
In December 2017, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in partnership with the Yuri Levada Analytical Center released the 2017 US-Russia Survey, a cross-…
1968 in Datasets blog
Datasets from 1968 reflected the concerns of the day. At the national level, Gallup polls covered public attitudes on the biggest stories in the news: the…
Puerto Rico's Recovery After Hurricane Maria blog
In October 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a survey exploring Americans' knowledge and views regarding Hurricane Maria's impact on Puerto…
Waco, Branch Davidians, and Changing Perceptions
Twenty-five years ago this week, federal and Texas state law officers laid siege to the Waco, TX Branch Davidian compound, where they believed cult…
Irish Peace and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998
The Good Friday Agreement of April 10, 1998 was an historic moment in the long Irish peace process. In it the status of Northern Ireland, its…
Metadata at Roper: Building Usability
Since moving to Cornell in late 2015, the Roper Center has been rebuilding its archival structure and replacing old systems with new technology. At…