The following websites, databases, directories, and data collections have been curated by Librarians in consultation with faculty to provide the most relevant resources for Government Relations students outside of Seneca Libraries.
Provides summaries of reports on polls from around the world. Choose from: Polls & Research; Politics in Depth; and Election Tracker.
Provides summaries of Canadian opinion poll results on different topics over time. Register to get full access to the Archive.
Canadian Gallup Polls contain political, social and economic questions, with occasional question(s) on subjects of current interest. These polls were conducted periodically from 1945-2000.
Nanos Research is a North American research and strategy organizations. Nanos conducts polls for CTV and the Globe and Mail.
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The GALLOP Portal is intended as a one-stop access point to full-text searchable electronic government documents collected by Legislative Libraries in Canada for their jurisdictions.
CPAC is Canada's independent, commercial-free politics in action, providing around the clock programming focused exclusively on the people and processes shaping Canada each day. This database includes CPAC produced articles and videos.
GRIC is a national, not for profit association, representing both government relations and public affairs professionals from all sectors.
Site offered through Canadian Company Capabilities, you can search for associations by name or province or sector. Provides address, key contacts, and links to the association websites
PAAC offers a range of professional development programs and networking opportunities to help members stay on top of industry issues and trends.
A community for public affairs professionals, intended to advance the field of public affairs and provide members with the executive education, expertise and research they need to succeed.
Professional organization with members that include public servants, academics and others interested in public administration. The Institute also works closely with all levels of government to promote quality public services and practices.
Data on US voting, public opinion, and political participation. Users must login and agree to terms of use before downloading data.
The study objective is to explain what makes people decide to vote (or not vote), and why they support a candidate/party. The data files are in Stata or SPSS.
The Census Program provides a statistical portrait of the country every five years. Datasets available from 1981 to present.
Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. Contains over 3500 datasets.
Pew Research Center conducts US public opinion polling, demographic research, and media content analysis.
Open access datasets that are contributed by Ontario University researchers.
Searchable portal to free-to-use datasets and statistics about socioeconomic factors in Canada.
- Please note that not all of the Ontario Data Catalogue results in this database are fully Open Access.
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