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The Roper PO Res Center, a unique internat'l soc sci res facility, was established at Williams Coll, Williamstown, Mass on Jul 1, 1957. Located at this Center are the basic data from approximately 3,200 sample surveys conducted in over 40 diff countries. Approximately 70 survey res firms are now placing such data at the Center, thereby making these materials available to scholars for secondary analysis. Scholars wishing to use these materials may do so at the Center itself, or they may obtain duplicates of selected studies on a loan basis. Further, the Center is currently developing a new program entitled the Internat'l Survey Library Assoc. Educ'al instit's, non-profit res instit's, & gov agencies may affiliate with the Center as Associates, & thereby obtain, on a permanent basis, duplicate sets of data of approximately 75% of the studies at the Roper Center. (See SA 0104-B2279). AA.

On Jul 1, 1964, the Roper PO Res Center at Williams Coll, Mass, inaugurated a new program entitled the Internat'l Survey Library Assoc. The central purpose of the Assoc is to make sample survey data being placed at the Center more readily accessible & more widely used for scholarly purposes. The program also serves to stimulate the development of specialized sub-centers of survey data at educ'al & other non-profit instit's. Encouraged to affiliate with the Center as Associates are educ'al instit's, non-profit res org's, & gov res groups in the US & other countries. AA.

The Roper Center, located at Williams Coll (Williamstown, Mass), is the major library of sample survey data in the world today. Currently, over 60 survey org's in the US & abroad are placing the basic data from their studies at the Center, thus making them available to scholars for secondary analysis. To date, approximately 2,800 studies, dating from 1936 to the present, & conducted in 39 countries, have been sent to the Roper Center. Access to these data is granted to accredited scholars, & others doing res in the public interest. Over 2,500 scholars from all parts of the world have thus far made use of the Center's data, res facilities, & services. AA.

Founded in July 1957, the Roper PO Res Center at Williams Coll is a unique internat'l repository of the raw data from over 2,000 sample surveys conducted in 22 countries since 1935. 44 org's are currently cooperating with the Center by placing their data here. By bringing these materials together in one location & making them readily available for secondary analysis to accredited scholars, the Center is making an important contribution to a wide range of res projects in the soc sci's. To date approximately 1,100 scholars have used the Center's data & processing facilities. Among the services offered on a cost basis are: (1) periodic information regarding the receipt of additional survey data, (2) provision of mimeographed copies of the Center's topical index headings, (3) tabulation of data & (4) the release on a loan basis of duplicate sets of survey materials. AA.

A challenging problem for both the student of political behavior and the practical politician is the self-labeled independent voter. Much of the research on what appears to be an increasingly larger segment of the American electorate has been either historically or sociologically oriented in the sense that it has focused on trend studies of the voting pattern of this group or has attempted to describe it in terms of its objective characteristics. Frequently, by inference at least, we are led to believe that the future political behavior of the independent can be anticipated if we have information of the above nature. The central purpose of this article is to present evidence favoring the hypothesis that the political behavior of the independent is more closely related to relevant psychological variables, such as his political perceptions, than to his past voting habits or his objective attributes.During the period from April through November of 1952, the author directed a detailed study of the political opinions and behavior of the residents of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a city of approximately 53,000 people. The research methods employed in the project included a systematic historic analysis of the community, a series of four public opinion surveys, content analysis of some of the mass media of communication, and a panel study. The first poll took place late in the spring of 1952, the second in August, and the third and fourth were carried out just prior to and immediately following the November elections. The panel members, coming from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds, were interviewed periodically throughout the course of the project.