Membership Benefits

The Roper Center has several different levels of membership to accommodate academic institutions, individual scholars and students as well as professional groups and individuals.

Benefits

• Full access to the iPOLL Databank, containing one-half million questions from the 1930s to the present with direct links to codebooks for data archived in the Roper Center
• Unlimited RoperExpress download of datasets in modern formats (ASCII or SPSS)
• Free or reduced rates on conversion of datasets to modern formats
• IP Authentication for Academic Institutions for both services permits researchers from any workstation on a member campus (or proxy account) to access iPOLL and RoperExpress without using a password. Only email registration is required
• Members using password authentication are presented the option of a session ID to identify individual users in a multi-user office environment or to identify specific projects for billing purposes.

Custom Services

• Free consultation on data conversion to standard statistical packages
• Staff time for special projects billed at discounted rates.

Complimentary copy

• General Social Survey
• Electronic Newsletter
  • The latest acquisitions
  • New developments: technological, data formats, programs
  • Improved member services.

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