POLI SCI 391PC : Immigration Politics and Policy

Fall 2021; Scott Blinder

Data, surveys, and polls

iPOLL This link opens in a new window
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Over 650,000 public opinion survey questions and answers - from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Survey from 1935 to present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Roper Dataset This link opens in a new window
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Search over 20,000 datasets from public opinion surveys dating back to the 1930s. Approximately 60% of these were conducted in the United States; 8,000 datasets are from over 100 countries.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

Pew Research Center
Topics, datasets (requires free account)
World Values Survey
The World Values Survey is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life.
Global Barometer Surveys
The first comprehensive effort to measure, at a mass level, the current social, political, and economic atmosphere around the world.
World Bank Open Data
Access to global development data.
Migration Policy Institute Data Hub
Data reflecting research and analysis into migration and integration policies around the world.