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This guide is designed to assist in locating scholarly articles, journals, statistical data, and other research materials pertaining to community activism and resources, management and organizational development, organizations, and leadership.
PolicyMap
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PolicyMapPolicyMap provides access to more than 15,000 indicators related to demographics, income/spending, housing, lending, quality of life, economy, education, health, jobs, crime, and education. The data is available across a wide range of geographies (e.g., address, block groups, census tract, zip code, county, city, state, MSA) in addition to school districts, HUD neighborhoods, and political boundaries. Users are able to analyze large amounts of data and quickly displays the data through maps, tables, charts and reports.
iPoll
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iPOLL
iPOLL is a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. Most of the major survey research organizations that have done work in the areas of social and political research in the United States are represented in iPOLL. Among them are The Gallup Organization, The Roper Organization, Louis Harris and Associates, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press
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