New Datasets at the Roper Center

Roper Center Archives Update, October 2007

The Roper Center had added several new datasets into its archive of survey data. The additions include surveys taken in the weeks before or after the 2006 Congressional elections; a Public Agenda Foundation poll on rudeness in America (plenty to work with there, no doubt); a survey on U.S. international leadership; and a survey on attitudes towards Muslims in the United States.

There are also additions from surveys taken amongst particular populations, such as Hurricane Katrina survivors; registered voters in Iowa who were asked about the upcoming Iowa caucuses; “Generation Next;” the working poor and unemployed; and laid-off workers.

Current and past announcements of updates/additions to Roper’s archives are available at

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/data/past_data_announcements.html

And, Roper’s Survey Spotlights also highlight new additions to Roper’s holdings.

Today’s “Roper has data on that?” dataset: a survey from 1943/1944 of people who listened to a WWII-era Kate Smith war bond drive.

Latest ICPSR Updates and Additions

The ICPSR’s holdings continue to expand. Amongst other studies, the archive has added or updated the following over the past month:

• The 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health;
• The 2006 United States Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy Survey;
• AsiaBarometers for 2003 and 2004;
• Determinants of Aid in the Post-Cold War Era;
• Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study, Wave 3, 2205-2006;
• Eurobarometer 67.2;
• Additions to the Monitoring the Future series from 2006;
• The Polish General Social Survey 1992-2002;
• County Characteristics, 2000-2007

As always, you can view the full list of ICPSR additions and updates at this location:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/recent.html.

Today’s “I didn’t know the ICPSR had those data” study: Gallup International’s 2005 Voice of the People survey, with data from 67 countries on topics such as approval/disapproval of international and domestic political institutions, attitudes towards crime, and respondents’ beliefs about what constitute the most important topics confronting the world today.