Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

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Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

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Formation	1947
Founder	Elmo Roper
Legal status	Non-profit
Headquarters	Ithaca, NY
Location	Cornell University
Executive director	Jonathon P. Schuldt
Chair	Robert Y. Shapiro
Board of directors	Roper Center Board of Directors
Website	Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University is the world's oldest archive of social science data and the largest specializing in data from public opinion surveys. Its collection includes over 27,000 datasets and more than 855,000 questions with responses in Roper iPoll, adding hundreds more each year. The archive contains responses from millions of individuals on a vast range of topics.^[1] The current executive director of the center is Jonathon P. Schuldt, Associate Professor of Communication at Cornell University, with a governing board of directors chaired by Robert Y. Shapiro of Columbia University.^[2]

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, Pew Research Center, the National Opinion Research Center^[3] and Princeton University's Office of Public Opinion Research.^[4]

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.^[5] The Roper Center moved from the University of Connecticut to Cornell University in 2015.