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The Field Poll

Overview:

This is your one-stop shop to do analysis of the California Field Opinion Polls! Click below to do immediate on-line searching and analysis of the opinions of 5 decades of Californians, from 1956 to 2006.

What is the Field Poll?:
The Field Poll, established in 1945 as The California Poll by Mervin Field, has operated continuously as an independent, non-partisan, media-sponsored public opinion news service. Each year the Field Polls cover a wide range of political and social topics examining California public opinion. Continuing measures are made of voter support for leading political figures vying for major state and federal offices, job ratings of important political figures and reactions to significant political events. Voter awareness, understanding and predispositions of major campaign issues and salient statewide ballot propositions are also tracked over time.

UC DATA, a member of The Field Institute Academic Consortium, serves as the distributor of data from the Field Polls. Data are made available to members of the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) systems in accordance with a licensing agreement. UC membership in the Consortium is funded by the UC Office of the President. CSU Consortium membership is funded by the Social Science Research and Instructional Council (SSRIC).

Access to Field Poll Data:
Who can access:
Students, faculty and staff at the University of California (UC) and California State Universities (CSU) may use all available Field Poll data.

The General Public and research affiliates at other academic institutions may access Field Poll data after a two year embargo period.

How to access:
UC and CSU affiliates:

ANALYZE the Polls on-line. Choose one of the polls below. This will invoke the web-based analysis program SDA - Survey Documentation & Analysis. SDA allows you to do detailed analysis, involving correlation of respondents to all questions within a poll.

SEARCH the Field Polls. Explore Field Poll questions by keyword to find out which polls interest you. This SDA tool will provide you with the study date, question text and response statistics for all questions that match your query.

DOWNLOAD the data via ftp. These will link you to all currently held Field Poll data. These data are available on the Berkeley network via IP authentication. Currently UC and CSU affiliates will have to access these data from a computer on the UC Berkeley campus.

BROWSE Press Releases. Scanned images of the California/Field Poll Press Releases provide contemporaneous interpretations of Poll results from from 1948 through 1995.

Other researchers, non-UC/CSU academic institutions, or general public:

ANALYZE the Polls on-line. Click on one of the polls below. This will invoke the web-based analysis program SDA - Survey Documentation & Analysis. SDA allows you to do detailed analysis, involving correlation of respondents to all questions within a poll.

SEARCH the Field Polls. This will allow you to explore Field Poll questions by keyword in order to find out which polls interest you. This SDA tool will provide you with the study date, question text and response statistics for all questions that match your query.

DOWNLOAD data using SDA. Choose one of the polls below to link to SDA. In SDA you can download the dataset for a poll, or a customized subset.

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