Spotlight on Philippines Data
In recent months, the Roper Center has begun to receive datasets from three new data providers in the Philippines. Social Weather Stations, the…
Public Health in Low-Income Southern States blog
The Low-Income Southern States Survey series from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is now available in the archive. Conducted…
50 Years After 1968
The year that rocked the world and changed the United States forever, 1968 is remembered as a time of societal divisions and cultural shifts. Following…
1962 Roper Interviewers' Handbook
Early polling researchers knew well that their data was only as good as their interviewers. These field researchers had to interpret instructions to…
Concerns of Rural America
In June 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation in partnership with The Washington Post released a poll of 1,686 national adults, including an…
Tensions with North Korea: The 1968 Pueblo Incident
Over the last few months, tensions between the United States and North Korea have been high. Fifty years ago, the two countries faced a crisis that found…
Roper Center Awarded CoreTrustSeal Certification
We are pleased to announce the Roper Center has been awarded the CoreTrustSeal certification for 2017-2019. The CoreTrustSeal has been developed by the…
Exploring the Andrew Kohut Collection
When most people think about the Roper Center, they think data. While data and datasets are what the Center is about for the most part, there are…
Responsibility, Overconfidence, & Intervention Efforts in the Age of Fake News
Who does the public hold accountable in the age of mass misinformation? What is being done now to deal with the problem? How can it be done better? Fake…
Long-Term Care in America: Who Should Bear the Responsibilities & Costs of Care
Source: AP-NORC In March 2017, the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research conducted a survey of 1,341 Americans, including an…
Opinions on the 2017 Women's Marches
Women’s March on Washington (image source: Washington Post) Women’s Marches, a new dataset addition to the archive from the Washington Post,…
New Year's Resolution: Archive Your Data
Vital research on public opinion is lost every day. Hard drives holding valuable polling data are gathering dust in storage rooms. Flash drives are…
2017 Mitofsky Award Winner Howard Schuman
Howard Schuman (PhD, Sociology, Harvard University; MS, Psychology, Trinity College; and A.B., Philosophy, Antioch College) is a distinguished and…
End-of-Life Medical Care: A Cross-Country Poll
In April 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation in partnership with The Economist released the End-of-Life Medical Care poll, a cross…
Lopez, Musick, Schuldt Join Roper Center Board of Directors
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, the world’s largest archive of public opinion data, welcomes three new members to its Board of Directors:…
Ideological Self-Identification Before Democratic Collapse: The Case of Chile Before 1973
"September 11 evokes tragic memories in the U.S. due to the terrorist attacks in 2001. Far south in the Americas in Chile, the date is associated with a…
Zika Virus: A Look Back at the 2016 Summer Olympics
In March 2016, the Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago conducted a national survey of 1,004 adults to explore Americans' knowledge…
Working-Class Whites: Views on Economy
In September 2016, the Kaiser Family Foundation and CNN released the Working-Class Whites poll of 1,614 national adults, with large oversamples of white,…
The Long Hot Summer: Riots in 1967
The Summer of Love was not the only nickname given to those months in 1967 when the world seemed to be changing at a record pace. Over 150 riots…
Lemberg Center Poll: Six-City Study on Violence
The Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence at Brandeis University was established after the assassination of President Kennedy to investigate the…