LAPOP Datasets
LAPOP
Latin American Public Opinion Project
LAPOP is a series of public opinion surveys conducted by Mitchell Seligson of Vanderbilt University. The project consists of over 60 surveys of individuals in Latin American countries about their views on system support, political tolerance, citizen participation, local government, corruption, and authoritarianism. Read more.
Carleton Access
Carleton College and St. Olaf College Libraries participate in the LAPOP Repository program and currently hold the following datasets (raw data files).
- Bolivia: 2000 (description and documentation)
- Brazil: 2007 (description and documentation)
- Chile: 2006 (description and documentation)
- Mexico: 2004 and 2006 (description and documentation)
- Paraguay: 1996, 1998 and 2006 (description and documentation)
- Peru: 1996 and 1998 (description and documentation)
- Venezuela: 1995 and 2007 (description and documentation)
The repository arrangement allows current members of the Carleton and St. Olaf communities to access the data via the libraries in lieu of contacting LAPOP. Contact Kristin Partlo for access* and watch this web site for new datasets. If you would like to receive email updates, or if you would like to request purchase of additional datasets, contact Kristin. See the LAPOP web site for a complete listing of their survey data.
* During the fall term of 2008, contact Danya Leebaw instead of Kristin for access to these datasets.
Online data analysis of some of the datasets is in development on the LAPOP web site. Familiarity with social science data structure and fluency in Spanish is recommended.