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- Description
- LAPOP, the Latin American Public Opinion Project, is an annual public opinion survey that
involves over 40,000 respondents in 26 countries in Latin America, as well as the United
States and other countries in the region such as Jamaica. Questions deal with political and
social attitudes, as well as demographic and economic characteristics. The countries
represented are Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United, States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
- Help
- Questionnaires, codebooks, and other supporting material are downloadable along with each data
file.
- User tools and features
- Users can download complete annual data files from the "Datasets" tab in Stata or SPSS
format.
- Dates covered
- From 2004 to the present.
- Updating frequency
- Annual.
- Sources
- LAPOP conducts the AmericasBarometer, a regularly conducted, multi-country, survey of democratic
values and behaviors in the Americas, organized by a consortium of academic and think-tank partners
in the hemisphere. LAPOP prides itself in employing rigorous methodology, employing carefully
designed stratified and clustered national samples, dozens of pretests for each new questionnaire
module introduced, the widespread use of handheld computers to collect the data, extensive training
of interviewers by LAPOP faculty and staff, and free on-line access to all of our data.
- Type of coverage
- Data.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- None.
- Producer/content provider
- Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
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