Polls, Population Studies and Statistics Guide

Databases

• Polling the Nations
  Collection of public opinion, with information from not only in the United States but also more than 90 countries around the world. Includes the full text of the questions and responses covering a broad range of issues- Publisher
• Public Opinion Online
  Full-text collection of public opinion in the United States. Covers the full spectrum of public interest including politics and government, public institutions, international relations, business, social affairs and consumer behavior and preferences- LexisNexis Academic
• Population Studies from JSTOR
  Full-text articles, from scholarly journals dealing with demography, family planning and population studies. 

Books

• World Population: A Reference Handbook / by Geoffrey Gilbert
  (HB871 .G47)
  Provides the resources needed to understand the economic, demographic, and environmental issues at stake on a planet rushing toward “carrying capacity.” Includes researched graphs, tables, and text- Publisher 
• Social Complexity in the Making: A Case Study Among the Arapesh of New Guinea / by Donald F. Tuzin
  (DU740.42 .T893)
  Accessible ethnography which explains the history and evolution of Ilahita, an Arapesh-speaking village in New Guinea- Publisher   Look Inside!
• Ancestry in America: A Comparative City-By-City Guide to over 200 Ethnic Backgrounds--With Rankings / by David Garoogian (Editor)
  (HB3505 .A53)
  Reference work pulls together comparative statistics on the ethnic makeup of municipalities in the U.S., using raw data from the 2000 census. Statistics were drawn from three different sections of the census: "Race," "Hispanic Origin," and "Ancestry"- Publisher
• Additional Books
  • Census
  • Demography
  • Statistics

Journals

• American Demographics
  A magazine dedicated to demographical studies in America. Description from EBSCOhost
• Population: An English Selection
  Scientific journal, publishing the works of French and foreign researchers in demography and in the related disciplines of sociology, economics, family anthropology, history, geography, public health, etc- Publisher
• Demography
  Peer-reviewed periodical containing research conducted in several disciplines, including the social sciences, geography, history, biology, statistics, business, epidemiology and public health. Current issues from Project Muse- JSTOR
• Population and Development Review
  Scholarly journal seeks to advance knowledge of the interrelationships between population and socioeconomic development and provides a forum for discussion of related issues of public policy- JSTOR

Websites

• American Religion Data Archive
  Acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. Collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious
• Norwegian Social Science Data Archives
  Promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and research in Europe.
• Data on the Net
  Provides listing of 756 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.