iPOLL User Benefits

By making iPOLL more intuitive to understand and accessible to everyone, iPOLL empowers your entire institution to keep up on public attitudes and opinions.

• 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

• Expose your students to critical evaluation of public policy issues from the public's perspective
• Enhance quantitative skills
• Find examples of public opinion for use in your class
• Use to develop exercises in finding and evaluating information

• 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

• 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

• Provide your faculty and students access to the largest database of US public opinion
• Quickly find poll numbers to use in student class papers --intuitive design makes it easy to find just the right set of questions
• Choose from a wide variety of topics such as abortion, crime, elections, immigration, trade, and work

• Keep up on public attitudes surrounding hot-button issues of the day
• Provides vital information to informed citizens in a vibrant democracy