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- Title
THE ROPER CENTER: AN INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE OF SAMPLE SURVEY DATA.
- Authors
Hastings, Philip K.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the Roper Public Opinion Research Center founded in 1957 in Williamstown, Massachusetts, which is an international archive of sample survey data. According to the author, during the past quarter-century, the use of sample surveys in social science research has increased markedly. Cross-national comparative studies of political behavior, analyses of public reactions to the control of crime and delinquency, research on many problems in public education, studies focusing on the nature and extent of popular support for various strands of foreign policy programs, all these are a few examples of social research in which sample survey data have played a significant and often a critical role. Towards this, the Roper Center, a unique international social science research facility, has brought to one location a vast reservoir of American and non-American attitude and behavior data that were formerly either difficult to obtain or entirely inaccessible. Since its founding, approximately 2,500 scholars from many countries have made use of the data and various other services it offers.
- Subjects
WILLIAMSTOWN (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED States; ARCHIVES; PUBLIC opinion polls; SOCIAL sciences; INFORMATION services
- Publication
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1963, Vol 27, Issue 4, p590
- ISSN
0033-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/267208