Roper Ambassador Program
As we celebrate our diamond anniversary, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University truly appreciates your continued support. …
Roper Center Marks 75th Year
In 1947, the first punchcards from Elmo Roper’s polls were deposited at Williams College, establishing the first social science data archive in the world…
Call for Proposals
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research invites paper proposals for a panel featuring underutilized data from the archive for next year’s Social…
New U.S. State Collection Available at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
The Roper Center at Cornell University is proud to announce a new initiative to make questions from U.S. state-level polls available in the Roper iPoll…
Call for Nominations: 2021 Warren J. Mitofsky Award
Call for Nominations: An annual award of The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, The Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence…
What's New in Roper iPoll?
Over the past few months, our member organizations have been migrating to a new, improved user interface. These changes are being implemented to make the…
New Collaboration Brings Public Opinion to the Public Through the Queens Public Library System
Non-Profits, Media, Educators and Engaged Citizens Can Access Current and Historical Public Opinion Data Queens, NY (February 18, 2020) – Among other…
Roper Center's Kohut Fellowship Now Accepting Applications
Andrew Kohut Fellowship Program in Public Opinion & Survey Research The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is now accepting applications for…
Warren J. Mitofsky Public Opinion Graduate Fellowship Now Accepting Applications
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is now accepting applications for the 2020 Warren J. Mitofsky Graduate Fellowship Program in Public Opinion…
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…
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, Christy Cressey…
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 Roper…
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…
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 the…
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…
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…
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: …
Energy and Climate Change in the 2016 Election
In 2016 the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released the Energy and…
Native Americans: Debate Over the Washington Redskins' Name Change
In 2016, the Washington Post released the National Survey of Native Americans poll of an unusual sample of 504 Native American adults. This survey…