MEJO *53: Reporting & Writing News: Public Opinion & Data
Statistics
- StatistaData on topics such as pet ownership, music sales, poverty, social media use, and much more. Or browse their market research categories. Available as pdf and download as Excel
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- SBRnet (Sports Business Research Network)Sports and sporting goods industry market research, demographics, and industry news.
Simply Analytics
- SimplyAnalyticsIncludes demographic, consumer spending, market segment, and purchasing data. Sources include Mediamark, Simmons, the U.S. Census, and more. Create maps or download data into Excel. Free account required.
Free Data Sources
- Free Data Sources For Your Next ProjectPublicly data in multiple categories. Compiled by Jake Kilroy for Column Five Media.
NOTE Statista is included here - please refer to UNC's Statista subscription for even more free-to-you data! - Google Think Tank SearchA custom Google-powered search created by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Census Data
- Data USADemographic, economic, other statistical data, and data visualizations for towns, counties, states, and the United States. Includes graphics and ability to export data to CSV. Uses U.S. Census and other public data.
- Social ExplorerU.S. and international data from 1790 to present. Data includes U.S. census data, Market Profile Data, and World Development Indicators from 1970-2015. Create maps or download data into Excel.
Polls
- Pew Research Center
Public opinion, research on population and demographic conditions and change.
- Roper Center's iPollStart with iPOLL to search at the question level.
See also Roper/Express, which allows searching at the dataset level. National opinion polls back to 1935, both U.S. and some international polls. Holdings include Gallup, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, ABC, CBS, Wall Street Journal and many more.
Many datasets are available for instant download in ASCII or SPSS format.
Sample Poll Everywhere Question
