Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop: Eighty Years of the Minnesota Poll | Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop: Eighty Years of the Minnesota Poll

Since 1944, the Minnesota Poll has catalogued the opinions and perspectives of generations of Minnesota residents.

Starting in Fall 2024, "Eighty Years of the Minnesota Poll: Past, Present, and Future of Public Opinion Research" will be convening a series of symposia and developing this interactive website in an effort to put researchers and practitioners from multiple fields in dialogue with one another in an exploration of the 80-year history of this unique institution, the stories it has told about the state’s increasingly diverse and divided residents, as well as the future of opinion research.

Topics include the role of the news media in covering public opinion, changing research methodologies, and exploring the use of new tools and technologies to track public sentiments.

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This project is supported by the College of Liberal Arts' Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop (ICW) program and an initiative of the Minnesota Journalism Center.

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The Roper Center is the world’s largest public opinion data archive with survey data from more than 120 different countries, and U.S. data from 1935 to today. Roper’s flagship offering is the Roper iPoll platform, a custom-built repository for housing survey data and all the associated documentation and analysis that illuminate a piece of research. Roper iPoll includes nearly a million individual survey questions, and more than 25,000 full data sets, and the Roper data team updates iPoll daily with the latest in political and topical polling.