New Home for Roper Center

In the US, data archive the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is to be relocated from its current home at the University of Connecticut to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Founded by pollster Elmo Roper in 1947, with support from George Gallup, the Roper Center today includes more than 600,000 survey questions and 20,000 datasets from US and international polls conducted since 1935. Data is accessed online, allowing researchers from academic institutions and other member organizations to search, select and download survey results and datasets.

With the new name of Roper@Cornell, the center will work closely with Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, and social scientists, archivists and computer experts at the university will add to the center's range of services. Full access to center archives will be maintained during the transition to Cornell, and its staff will continue to add new surveys and datasets to the collection.

The move will officially take place on November 7th, with Peter Enns (pictured), Associate Professor of Government in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, taking the role of the center's Executive Director. Commenting on the university's successful bid to host the center, Enns said: 'This is an amazing opportunity for Cornell and I'm honored and thrilled to be a part of it. Our students and faculty will benefit immeasurably from this rich data resource, as will scholars and other members of Roper@Cornell nationally and around the world as we expand the collection and enhance the archive'.

The Center's web site - for the moment - is at www.ropercenter.uconn.edu .

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