What's New at the Center for the Month of May

Topics at a Glance!--Election 2008

This year's historical presidential election is heated. Here you can find data on the current Democratic Nomination. Find out public opinion on important issues driving the vote, the horse race and the sitting President's approval rating. Click here to get more public opinion data on this month's Topic at a Glance--Election 2008!

Based on a new topic each month, TAG offers a generous free sampling of related polling data and details of survey datasets held by the Roper Center, along with articles previously published in Public Perspective magazine.

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Newly Spotlighted Datasets

Updated as of May 1, 2008

Special studies of interest recently added to iPOLL. The database now contains half a million questions!

Title:	Retirement Confidence Survey 2008 [January, 2008]
Source:	Survey by Employee Benefit Research Institute.
Methodology:	Conducted by Mathew Greenwald & Associates, January 3-January 29, 2008 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult sample of 1,322. For some questions there were variations in the question wording between the retired and non-retired respondents which are shown. The status was determined by taking into account the respondent's and spouse's retirement status.
Search for:	Searched iPOLL for: Topic: 'retirement'; Date: '01/03/2008 to 01/03/200

Additional resources - Web sites with special survey samples

CIRCLE & Rock the Vote Young Voter Turnout and Registration Trends
http://www.civicyouth.org/PopUps/CIRCLE_RtV_Young_Voter_Trends.pdf

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