International Opinion Poll Data


Roper's Catalog of Holdings

  • Use the pull-down "country" menu to limit searches by country.
  • The collection is strong, but not limited to, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Latin America).

 

Collections Specific to Latin America

 

ICPSR contains thousands of opinion polls

  • Search the phrase, public opinion and then
    • Filter By Geography:
      selecting the name of the country you are interested (use "view all" if the name is not listed).
              OR
      the word Global if you want trans-national surveys.
    • Filter by Topic
      again use "view all" option if the name is not listed.
      You can then shorten the list with Filter by Series and/or Filter by Author as either may reflect a geographic coverage.
  • Trans-national Survey by Name

   Voice of the People
-ICPSR's Series entry
list of studies plus variable
search and online analysis

    Eurobarometer
-links to EU's features for
  identifying a survey
-then download from ICPSR
    Afrobarometer
-ICPSR's Series entry
list of studies plus variable
search and online analysis

 
    Asiabarometer
-links to ICPSR search page
-search for series name

Polling the Nations (complete data files not available)

  • A commercial index to question-level results.
  • Use the "Universe: Geographic area covered by the survey" search feature to limit by country or groups of countries.
  • Download only the tabulated responses to individual questions.
  • Only useful to identify surveys as complete data files are not available.

Assistance in using these or any other data resources is available on-site in the DSSC during reference hours or by emailing dssc.data@columbia.edu.