Slovenian Public Opinion Programme (SPO) has been in place for over 50 years, yet so far no systematic analysis of its academic use has been made. The aim of the article is to fill this gap and evalute through quantitative bibilographical study the infrastructural role of the programme in the production of social sicentific knowledge. The analysis is based on 1043 scientific and expert publications for the period 1971 – 2021, which include data from the SPO and were accessed on different online platforms and acquired in physical form. The main finding is that the SPO indicators are used by researchers in numerous academic and other organsiations and in diverse disciplinary areas addressing a wide range of topics, mainly in the inter-temporal prespective. Over 90 archived datasets of SPO represents an important part of the ‘ecosystem’ of social scientific data in Slovenia, and in a historical perspective, a special value can be attributed to the indicators from the early period which represent a peculiar comparative advantage for Slovenian empirical social sciences
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