Gallup US Tracking Poll

The Gallup US Tracking Poll (formerly US Daily Tracking Poll/US Dailies) microdata covers polls conducted from 2008-2017, aiming to sample 1,000 respondents per day throughout the year, and 2018-2019, with a similar sample on a weekly and monthly basis. The microdata provides year, month, date, and day of the week variables; geographic variables include region, state, metropolitan area, congressional district, and ZIP code. Weighting variables are provided to produce nationwide estimates from the sample data. You can learn more about  how Gallup Daily Tracking works.

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How to Use

It is helpful to search Gallup Analytics for questions asked in the US Daily Tracker poll.  You can search by keyword or browse questions by nested topics such as Religion & Ethics, Quality of Life, Health, Well-being, Government & Politics.  Available geographies are the United States, individual states and MSAs.

Please note: The methodology for the Gallup US Tracker has changed over time, please see the documentation for details.

You can also view the QTAGs and Labels in the Gallup US Daily Tracker Methodology (May 2017), although you will not be able to see the years asked.  It is helpful to review the Methodology document to discover general indicators, such as age and gender.

Please be aware, the variable names change year to year.  Even a simple variable representing age has a different variable name over the course of the years available.  The official Gallup methods documents do not reflect the fact that some variable names change over time.

Documentation

Daily Methods (pdf) – Methodology report for the combined Wellbeing and Politics & Economics Tracks for 2008-2017
Tracking Methods (pdf) – Methodology report for the 2018 Politics & Economics track
National Health and Well-Being Index Methods (pdf) – Methodology report for the 2018-2019 Wellbeing track conducted via mail – address based sampling

License Restrictions

Before using these datasets, please be aware of the following restrictions:

Only William & Mary faculty, staff, and students may download, use, and manipulate the data.
You may create reports and publish externally, redistribute, and manipulate such reports, so long as such externally distributed reports do not contain only Gallup data and so long as Gallup data are not included in a report in a quantity or specificity that could reasonably be deemed to be a substitute for acquiring the data from Gallup.
William & Mary affiliates may not share Gallup data with any third party. 
Reports must include attribution when Gallup data are included without modification or are used as a direct source of analysis.

Gallup US Tracking Poll

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