Research Guide: Communication Studies

"There are over 1,000 data files included in the ARDA collection. You can browse files by category, alphabetically, view the newest additions, most popular files, or search for a file. Once you select a file you can preview the results, read about how the data were collected, review the survey questions asked, save selected survey questions to your own file, and/or download the data file."

Surveys by themes: Society, Culture and Development, Digital Society and Technology, Politics and the European Union, Health and Safety, and more.

An organization best known for its public opinion polls, the results of which are often referenced by the media. Polls are both national and international in scope, and are used to identify opinion trends over time.

At the Harris Poll, we are committed to providing the latest in public opinion polling as a free service for the media, policymakers, non-profit organizations, ...

"The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan 'fact tank' that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world." Topics include: economics, energy & environment, global attitudes & foreign affairs, immigration, internet & technology, news media, politics & elections, public opinion, religion, and social trends. In many cases, the full text of reports and data sources are available.

Polls, public opinion research, and national surveys on public attitudes toward press, politics, public policy issues.

"The WorldPublicOpinion.org network is a consortium of research centers studying public opinion on international issues in their respective countries. At present the network consists of research centers in more than 25 countries across all of the major continents."

The General Social Survey is an ongoing regular personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. The survey measures the direction of American attitudes, experiences, practices and concerns. Since 1994 the GSS has been conducted in even number years.

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) is the world's largest archive of computer-readable social science data.