Most social scientists will tell you that it is fairly hard to get any type of meaningful sense of public opinion on any number of important issues, so it is with great interest that the Scout Report has found the website of the Pew Global Attitudes Project. With principal funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Global Attitudes Project was created with the intent to gauge public attitudes...

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut is "the largest library of public opinion data in the world." Visitors to their Website may search the extensive Roper Center Archive Catalog, the Latin American Survey Data Bank, or the Japanese Survey Data Bank. The catalog and the data banks provide summary information on surveys and studies measuring public opinion...