Public Opinion Polls

Research!America has been commissioning public opinion polls with leading firms since 1992. For more insight and analysis, see our recent blog posts on survey data.

Polls

State

Poll Year	Name	Tags	Type
2020	Americans’ Views on Science and Health	All States with polls tagged to them	Poll History
2020	Americans Strongly Support Organ and Tissue Donation for Research	All States with polls tagged to them	Poll History
2020	Americans’ Views on Funding for Science, Medical, and Health Research	All States with polls tagged to them	Poll History
2020	Americans Strongly Support Human Genetics Research	All States with polls tagged to them	Poll History
2019	Iowa Science Survey	Iowa	State-Based Polling
2019	America Speaks: Poll Data Summary, Volume 19	All States with polls tagged to them, Illinois, National	Poll Data Summary
2018	Americans' Views on Antibiotic Resistance	All States with polls tagged to them	Poll History
2018	Americans’ Views on Child Abuse and Neglect: Political Party	All States with polls tagged to them, National	Poll History
2018	Americans’ Views on Child Abuse and Neglect	All States with polls tagged to them, National	Poll History
2018	Americans’ Views on Vaccines and Infectious Diseases	All States with polls tagged to them, National	Poll History
2018	America Speaks: Poll Data Summary, Volume 18	All States with polls tagged to them, National	Poll Data Summary
2018	Americans Say President Trump Should Assign High Priority to Science and Technology	All States with polls tagged to them	Poll History
2017	West Virginians Speak Out on Medical and Health Research	West Virginia	State-Based Polling
2017	Perception of Migraine among Sufferers and Non-Sufferers	All States with polls tagged to them, National	Poll History
2017	Clinical Trials: Survey Data of Minority Populations	All States with polls tagged to them, National	Clinical Research Polling, Poll History
2017	Public Perception of Clinical Trials	All States with polls tagged to them, National	Clinical Research Polling, Poll History
2017	America Speaks: Poll Data Summary, Volume 17	All States with polls tagged to them	Poll Data Summary
2017	Americans’ Views on Science and Innovation Under President Trump	All States with polls tagged to them	Poll History
2016	Georgians Speak Out on Medical and Health Research	Georgia	State-Based Polling
2016	Americans’ Views on Candidates and Medical Progress	All States with polls tagged to them	Poll History

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For more information on our public opinion polling and for polls prior to 2001, please contact us at info@researchamerica.org.

Telephone (random-digit dialing) polls are conducted with a sample size of 800-1000 adults (age 18+) and a maximum theoretical sampling error of +/- 3.5 percent. Data are demographically representative of adult U.S. residents (state or national).

Online polls are conducted with a sample size of 1000-2000 adults and sampling error of +/-3.1 percent. The data is weighted in two stages to ensure accurate representation of the U.S. adult population. Figures for age, sex, race, education, and income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with population demographics. "Propensity score" weighting was also used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online.

Poll history: National public opinion polls on issues that are relevant to medical research and innovation.

Poll data summary: An annual compilation of the most recent poll data.

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