Roper Center receives NYAAPOR 2006 Outstanding Achievement Award

The Roper Center was honored at the June 2006 meeting of the New York Chapter of AAPOR with the prestigious NYAAPOR Outstanding Achievement Award.  As The Roper Center enters its 60th year, it continues to maintain the largest archives of survey research and public opinion data. Accepting the award on behalf of the Roper Center was Marc Maynard and Lois Timms-Ferrara.

The creation of the Roper Center by Elmo Roper with George Gallup in the 1940s—about the same time that APPOR was established—was an act of vision and generosity, for the Center was designed to archive and disseminate their most valuable and costly product:  their data. Today, Preservation and Access are the Roper Center’s mandate.  The Center has become the most extensive public opinion data archives in existence, taking on the role of data steward to opinion surveys collected by more than 150 survey firms over the last seventy years and across scores of different nations.  These data shall be preserved in perpetuity.

It is humbly acknowledged that without the generosity and altruism of those who create the surveys, collect the data and pay for them, the Roper Center would not exist. We proudly accept this honor on behalf of the data providers who archive with us, the founders of the enterprise, and the social science community that reaps the endless benefits of having access to these important collections.

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