Survey Websites

Provides guides, standards, definitions, recommended and condemned practices for public policy survey data collection.

The organization maintains an archive of computer-readable social science data. Includes searchable and downloadable catalogs, database of opinion polls, vital statistics for North Carolina, and related resources.

The Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides access to an extensive collection of downloadable data. While some data is only available to individuals from member institutions, an extensive collection of criminal justice data, election data, and data from the General Social Surveys is available to the public from this site.

Promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and research in Europe.

Categorized articles about problems in data collection and survey methodology.

A graduate degree program teaching state-of-the-art principles and practices in the design, conduct, analysis and evaluation of sample surveys. JPSM, sponsored primarily by the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, is a consortium of the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan and Westat. The primary goal of JPSM is to educate the next generation of technical leaders of the survey profession. 

Provides tools, services, resources, and training for conducting surveys, with a focus on measuring satisfaction.

Provides sampling and related services exclusively to survey research professionals.

provides educational opportunities for students and information on elections, policy, and popular issues for the public.

CSRS specializes in data collection and data processing for complex research projects. Telephone surveys, mail surveys, internet surveys. CATI interviewing. Bi-lingual interviewing.

Software package for collecting survey data based on structured questionnaires, using telephone or face-to-face interviewing, web surveys or self-administered procedures.

Open collection of survey questionnaires used in social sciences and public policy making. This digital collection allows users to browse, search, store and share survey instruments over the web.

A software package that allows survey researchers to increase the expressiveness and longevity of the data collected through standards based metadata documentation.

Conducts survey research in the public interest for government agencies, educational institutions, private foundations, non-profit organizations, and private corporations.

A non-profit organization that conducts nationwide phone and mail surveys on topics such as Current affairs, Health, Education and Business.