Public Opinion

Global Barometer Project

Global Barometer Project

An independent, non-governmental think tank "particularly concerned with the political climate in Northeast Asia and the state of democracy"

Comprehensive effort to measure, at a mass level, the current social, political, and economic atmosphere around the world. It provides an independent, non-partisan, multidisciplinary view of public opinion on a range of policy-relevant issues.

This source includes international research covering subjects including "people’s assessments of their own lives to their attitudes about the current state of the world."

This source includes international research covering subjects including "people’s assessments of their own lives to their attitudes about the current state of the world."

"The Pew Global Attitudes Project is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys, covering 49 countries plus the Palestinian Authority." Data is from 2001 forward.

Some 14,000 surveys from 1,000 survey organizations in the US and 100 other countries.

Provides articles on the results of opinion polls taken around the world on a wide variety of current issues.

“The World Values Survey is a worldwide investigation of socio-cultural and political change. It is conducted by a network of social scientists at leading universities all around world. The survey is performed on nationally representative samples in almost 80 societies on all six inhabited continents. A total of four waves have been carried since 1981 allowing accurate comparative analysis."