Datasets that appear in this collection are available from Odesi for searching and exploration. The Public Opinion Polls collection in Odesi includes over a thousand polls, or POPs for short, from the Canadian Opinion Research Archive (CORA), Ipsos Canada, Angus Reid, Gallup Canada, Leger, and more.

A Public Opinion Poll is a survey of public opinion about social, economic, and political issues. “Public opinion” typically means a commonly held belief about something, usually by a majority of people. “Poll” or “Polling” has roots in voting and recording those votes but has since evolved to also mean the act of recording people's opinions on a topic as a pollster asks them a series of questions.

Curation and preservation of these POP data collections are provided in partnership between Odesi and university libraries, including Carleton University, Queen's University, University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Ottawa, and others. To learn more about the Odesi POP Collection visit the Canadian Public Opinion Polls Guide.

To search for POP datasets, visit Odesi.ca.