LAPOP Collections at Duke
Duke University Libraries are pleased to serve as an archive for older surveys (please visit LAPOP for the latest data) from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) . The Latin American Public Opinion Project produces surveys for the analysis of public perceptions on the role of government, political tolerance, citizen participation and corruption, among other issues. Questionnaires and technical papers describing the LAPOP collections are available through the survey links that follow.
The data files and questionnaires are provided as zipped files, one per country and year combination. When available, data files are provided in SPSS (.sav) and Stata (.dat) format. Questionnaires are in PDF or Word Document (.doc) format.
Terms of Use
Access to LAPOP data is limited to enrolled students, staff, faculty and instructors at Duke University. The data provided in this collection are deidentified survey data regulated by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Duke University. These data may not be redistributed to third parties.
Merged Files
As a repository for LAPOP data, Duke provides access to pre-merged files created by LAPOP. The following files are currently available.
Country Files by Year
Please browse our LAPOP Collections for country files. Use the "Location" facet to filter by country. We have over a hundred country files for most Western Hemisphere countries for various years from 1973 though 2010, with most datasets dating from the later part of this date range.
Please visit LAPOP Free data for some more recent data and for survey documentation
