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ISR conducts research on a wide variety of topics, from consumer confidence and economic expectations to voting behavior, teen drug use, aging, and family dynamics.
Featured Study
American National Election Studies explores the causes and consequences of voting behavior and electoral outcomes since 1948. Photo by Thinkstock.
ISR conducts a number of other widely cited and influential surveys. These include:
- Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers measures consumer sentiment and economic expectations on a monthly basis since 1946
- Columbia County Study analyzes the factors linked to childhood and adult aggression
- Health and Retirement Study surveys a nationally representative sample of 22,000 Americans age 50 and over every two years
- Monitoring the Future Study surveys 50,000 American youth on their use of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs
- National Survey of American Life examines a nationally representative sample of Black Americans, including Afro-Caribbeans
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics studies the household structure and economic status of U.S. families over lifetimes and across generations
- World Values Surveys assess global value changes in almost 80 societies around the world on all six inhabited continents