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How do I search the Gallup Brain?
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Our search engine is flexible and allows you to search as broadly or as narrowly as you need to find what you're looking for in the Gallup Brain. You can search Gallup questionnaires and documents.

Basic Search
Basic Search allows you to perform simple searches by keyword.

1. Choose whether you want to search within questionnaires or documents.
2. Enter a keyword or words to search for. For example, you might enter terms like "president," "economy," "Ronald Reagan," "honesty," or "tobacco."
3. Hit Enter or click the Search button; this should bring up a list of Gallup survey items or Gallup documents that match your search criteria.

Advanced Search
Advanced Search enables you to narrow your search by exact words and even within a date range.

1. Enter a keyword, key phrase, or a combination of keywords and phrases.
2. If you want to refine your search further by looking within a specific date range, use the "before" and "after" options to select a range.
3. Hit Enter or click the Search button; this should bring up a list of Gallup survey items or Gallup documents that match your search criteria.

Results Display
In the Advanced Search area, you can select the number of results you want to display per page and the order in which the results are displayed. If you'd like the results to display in their own window after you click a search link, check this option.

Here are a few basic search tips:

Keywords
Be specific. For example, if you're looking for information on Richard Nixon, enter "Richard Nixon" rather than "president."

The Gallup Brain search engine excludes common words and characters such as "of" and "the."

Capitalization
Searches are not case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be read as lowercase. For example, searches for "teenage smoking," "Teenage Smoking," and "TeenAge SMokinG" will all return the same results.

Word Variations
To provide the most accurate results, the Gallup Brain automatically searches for derivatives of your keyword(s). For example, if you type the keyword "America," it will also find "American." Similarly, if you type "politic," it will also find "political."