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iPOLL User Benefits


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For further information please contact The Roper Center at 860.486.4440 or rcweb@ropercenter.uconn.edu.

iPOLL Databank
Faculty Political Analyst Pollster Public Affairs Public Policy Analyst Journalist

Faculty Researcher:
  • Find information about public opinion on a wide range of topics
  • Identify datasets for more detailed analysis
  • Construct time series of change in public opinion
Political Analyst:
  • Develop strategic insights through a stronger understanding of public opinion on key issues
  • Strengthen proposals with hard data and long-term trends
  • Sharpen questionnaire design by researching tested questions
Pollster:
  • Provides a basis for new projects in terms of instrument construction, issue framing
  • Investigate historical context
  • Helps generate ideas and new approaches to policy issues
  • Evaluate what's been covered and discovered, but also what has not been covered
Public Affairs:
  • Strengthen proposals with hard data and long-term trends.
  • Develop political insight through a stronger understanding of public opinion on key issues.
  • Get more value out of surveys for clients by researching tested questions.
Public Policy Analyst:
  • Strengthen proposals with hard data and long-term trends
  • Sharpen questionnaire design by researching tested questions
  • Develop political insight through a stronger understanding of public opinion on key issues
Journalist:
  • Quickly find poll numbers to supplement your stories
  • Evaluate the public's opinion of critical public policy issues
  • Put today's poll reports into an historical context by looking back at nearly 70 years of survey questions