The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

is the world's oldest archive of

social science Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among members within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the ...

data and the largest specializing in data from

public opinion Public opinion, or popular opinion, is the collective opinion on a specific topic or voting intention relevant to society. It is the people's views on matters affecting them. In the 21st century, public opinion is widely thought to be heavily ...

surveys. Its collection includes over 27,000 datasets and more than 855,000 questions with responses i
Roper iPoll
adding hundreds more each year. The archive contains responses from millions of individuals on a vast range of topics. The current executive director of the center is Jonathon P. Schuldt, Associate Professor of Communication at

, with a governing board of directors chaired by Robert Y. Shapiro of

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

. The Roper Center focuses on surveys conducted by the news media and commercial polling firms; however, it also holds many academic surveys, including historical collections from Gallup,

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, the

National Opinion Research Center NORC at the University of Chicago, previously the National Opinion Research Center, is an independent social research organization in the United States. Established in 1941, its corporate headquarters is located in downtown Chicago, with office ...

and

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's Office of Public Opinion Research. The Roper Center maintains cooperative relationships with other archives around the world. Its board of directors includes representatives from academic and commercial

public opinion research An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll, is a survey (human research), human research survey of public opinion from a particular sampling (statistics), sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions ...

. The Roper Center moved from the

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Warren J. Mitofsky Award

The Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research is named in honor of

Warren Mitofsky Warren J. Mitofsky (September 17, 1934 – September 1, 2006) was an American political pollster. Mitofsky graduated in 1957 from Guilford College and was executive director of the CBS News election and survey unit from 1967 to 1990. He also pr ...

. Previous winners: * 2007:

John Mueller John E. Mueller (born June 21, 1937) is an American political scientist in the field of international relations as well as a scholar of the history of dance. He is recognized for his ideas concerning "the banality of 'ethnic war'" and the theory ...

* 2008: Robert Blendon * 2009: Robert Wuthnow * 2010: James A. Davis * 2011: Kathleen Frankovic * 2012: Norman Bradburn * 2013: Eric Schickler and

Adam Berinsky Adam J. Berinsky (born 1970) is a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of the 2004 book ''Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America'' and the 2009 book ''In Time of ...

* 2014: Andrew Kohut * 2015:

Daniel Yankelovich Daniel Yankelovich (December 29, 1924 – September 22, 2017) was an American public opinion analyst and social scientist. Education and career After attending Boston Latin School, Yankelovich graduated from Harvard University in 1946 and 1950 be ...

* 2016: James Stimson * 2017: Howard Schuman, Emeritus Professor at the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

, where he began his teaching career in 1964, and Emeritus research scientist at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center * 2018: Mollyann Brodie, Senior Vice President for Executive Operations and Executive Director, Public Opinion and Survey Research, at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) * 2019: Patricia Moy, Christy Cressey Professor of Communication and Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Student Affairs at the

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* 2020: Karlyn Bowman, Senior Fellow at the

American Enterprise Institute The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C., that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare ...

* 2021: Lawrence D. Bobo, Dean of Social Science and the

W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relativel ...

Professor of the Social Sciences at

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* 2022:

Kathleen Hall Jamieson Kathleen Hall Jamieson (born November 24, 1946) is an American professor of communication studies, communication and the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-founded FactCheck.org, and she is an ...

, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication of the

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and director of the university’s

Annenberg Public Policy Center The Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) is a center for the study of public policy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. It has offices in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, where the University of Pennsy ...

, where she co-founded FactCheck.org * 2023: Diane Colasanto, former Gallup chief methodologist and senior vice president and 1996-1997 AAPOR president * 2024: Michael Traugott, Professor Emeritus of Communication and Political Science at the

Student Fellowships

The Roper Center awards 3 student fellowships: * Kohut Research Fellows: for undergraduate and graduate students * Mitofsky Graduate Research Fellows: for Cornell University doctoral students *

W.E.B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relativel ...

Fellowship in Support of Diversity and Inclusion, a joint project with the

American Association for Public Opinion Research The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) is a professional organization of more than 2,000 public opinion and survey research professionals in the United States and from around the world, with members from academia, media, gover ...

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