This guide suggests some resources available from the TRU Library and on the Internet that contain information related to Canadian Opinions, Polls & Surveys.
Odesi contains over 3,535 datasets for the social sciences, with more than 13,000 additional dataset descriptions available for searching. Use Odesi to directly access DLI microdata from Statistics Canada
The Canadian Gallup Polls are omnibus polls, containing questions of a political, social and economic nature, from 1945-2000. Each poll contains various questions on such topics, as well as questions on political affiliation and demographics which are standard from poll to poll.
Includes readily accessible results from these surveys, tracking Canadian opinion over time on frequently asked survey questions, as well as tabular results from recent Canadian surveys, and more general information on polling.
Enter the words "poll or survey" in the "Document Title" field and the words of your topic into the "Citation and Document Text" field. Read the newspaper article and try to find the original Poll or Survey from the Polling/Survey Company.
Polls & Surveys
Polls & Surveys: Raw Data
Note: the following sites provide access to raw data.
Users will need to use the Data Codebook from a specific survey and specialized Statistical Software
to interpret this data.
The Canadian Gallup Polls are omnibus polls, containing questions of a political, social and economic nature, from 1945-2000. Each poll contains various questions on such topics, as well as questions on political affiliation and demographics which are standard from poll to poll.
Includes readily accessible results from these surveys, tracking Canadian opinion over time on frequently asked survey questions, as well as tabular results from recent Canadian surveys, and more general information on polling.
