A.C. Nielsen Media Research

Center for Media and Public Affairs "is a non-profit, non-partisan media research organization located in Washington, DC."

General Social Survey resources developed by Queens College.

Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy is located at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The site contains a useful publications list.

Newsweek Media Research Index - Newspapers: Audience Research, "a directory of major studies and reports, and it represents an extraordinary bibliography of over 700 studies, journal articles, conference papers and books, including many international contributions."

Pew Center for People, the Press and Politics is "an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues."  

PollingReport.com is an independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion.

Public Agenda Online: Public Opinion and Public Policy is a "nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization based in New York City."

Research Triangle Institute-Survey Research

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research "provides for a "public audit" of polling data and reports of public opinion. As a non-profit, non-partisan public opinion data archive, the Center is in a unique position to help clarify the public's voice."

The Business Research Laboratory provides online survey information.

The Gallup Organization

U.S. Census Bureau Home Page

University-Based Research Institutes: