iPOLL Databank and PollingReport.com

PollingReport provides access to current polls and survey reports and is organized in broad categories including Politics & Policy, Business/Economy, and the American Scene. Poll results are added to the site as they are released by the organizations. Subscribers pages offer more detailed poll results including state-by-state presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial polls.

Content

Generally, the PollingReport contains published reports of national, state and regional surveys of a political and social nature from several dozen main sources. Though trended data released by survey firms may provide historical background, typically the polls posted on the PollingReport date only from 1998. The iPOLL system focuses on national scope surveys and contains not only the complete question text and responses to half a million questions from as far back as 1935, but also information such as study abstracts, links to questionnaires, datasets and citation information where available.

 

Currency

The iPOLL Databank is updated on a daily basis, as is the Polling Report.

 

Additional features

Nearly 60% of iPOLL questions are linked to respondent level data sets, providing researchers access to the full questionnaire and details of the methodology, codes, demographic variables, etc. instantly.

The search engine for iPOLL is designed specifically for this content, therefore offering more flexibility to hone in on what is appropriate for the research topic at hand.

iPOLL provides search within results, save a search, and search history features.