CBS NEWS/NEW YORK TIMES MONTHLY POLL #2, MARCH 1995 (ICPSR 6551) Codebook Appendix Principal Investigators CBS News/The New York Times First ICPSR Version December 1997 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research P.O. Box 1248 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 - BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION Publications based on ICPSR data collections should acknowledge those sources by means of bibliographic citations. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for social science bibliographic utilities, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: CBS News/The New York Times. CBS NEWS/NEW YORK TIMES MONTHLY POLL #2, MARCH 1995 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. New York, NY: CBS News [producer], 1995. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter- university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. 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CBS News / New York Times Poll Documentation ============================================ Card #1 Column (Starting) Length Description ================================================== 1 1 (1) Card Number (1) 2 5 (2-6) Respondent Number 7 3 (7-9) Area Code 10 3 (10-12) Exchange Code 17 1 (17) Completed Interview 1=Yes 3=Converted Refusal 18 1 (18) Cover Sheet Number 19 1 (19) Number of Adults in Household 20 1 (20) Number of Adults at Home 21 1 (21) Number of Women at Home 22 1 (22) Respondent's Sex 1=Male 2=Female 23 3 (23-25) Interviewer's ID Number 26 1 (26) Interviewer's Sex 27 1 (27) Interviewer's Race 28 1 (28) Flip Variable 30 1 (30) Registered/Registration NOT Necessary 1=Registered/Registration not necessary 2=Not registered and need to be to vote 9=DK Card #2 Column (Starting) Length Description ================================================== 1 1 (1) Card Number (2) 2 5 (2-6) Respondent Number 57 8 (57-64) Respondent's First Name 73 2 (73-74) Last Time Voted 0=Never 1=1996 2=1995 3=1994 4=1993 5=1992 6=1991 7=1988-90 8=1986-87 12=before 1986 99=DK/NA (If VOTE92 = 1,2,3,4 then 99=5) Card #3 Column (Starting) Length Description ================================================== 1 1 (1) Card Number (3) 2 5 (2-6) Respondent Number 12 1 (12) 3rd Flip Variable (FLIP3) 13 1 (13) State Vote Rolls Purged 14 1 (14) CBS Voting Eligibility 15 1 (15) Eligibility Residence 20 6 (20-25) Weight 2 (Probably Electorate Weight) 40 6 (40-45) Weight 3 (Call-back weight if applicable) 49 6 (49-54) Standard Weight 55 1 (55) Census Region (derived from telephone number) 1=East 2=Midwest 3=South 4=West 56 1 (56) CBS Region 1=Northeast 2=Northcentral 3=South 4=West 57 2 (57-58) State Code (numbered 01-51 in alphabetica order) 59 1 (59) Urbanity Code 1=Large Central City (over 500k) 2=Central City (50 to 500k) 3=Suburbs 4=Other Community (10 to 50K) 5=Rural 60 2 (60-61) Batch Number 62 1 (62) Metro Status Code 1=Central city of multi-county SMSA 2=Not in central city, but in county containing all/part of the central city 3=Suburban county of the SMSA 4=In an SMSA consisting of just one county 5=Not in an SMSA 63 1 (63) Time Zone (Code by Interviewer) 1=East 2=Central 3=Mountain 4=Pacific 5=Bering 6=Hawaii CBS News State Code List ======================== 01. Alabama 27. Montana 02. Alaska 28. Nebraska 03. Arizona 29. Nevada 04. Arkansas 30. New hampshire 05. California 31. New Jersey 06. Colorado 32. New Mexico 07. Connecticut 33. New York 08. Delaware 34. North Carolina 09. District of Columbia 35. North Dakota 10. Florida 36. Ohio 11. Georgia 37. Oklahoma 12. Hawaii 38. Oregon 13. Idaho 39. Pennsylvania 14. Illinois 40. Rhode Island 15. Indiana 41. South Carolina 16. Iowa 42. South Dakota 17. Kansas 43. Tennessee 18. Kentucky 44. Texas 19. Louisiana 45. Utah 20. Maine 46. Vermont 21. Maryland 47. Virginia 22. Massachusetts 48. Washington 23. Michigan 49. West Virginia 24. Minnesota 50. Wisconsin 25. Mississippi 51. Wyoming 26. Missouri CBS Region Code =============== Northeast: Northcentral: Connecticut Illinois Delaware Indiana District of Columbia Iowa Maine Kansas Maryland Michigan Massachusetts Minnesota New Hampshire Missouri New Jersey Nebraska New York North Dakota Pennsylvania Ohio Rhode Island South Dakota Vermont Wisconsin West Virginia South: West: Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona Florida California Georgia Colorado Kentucky Hawaii Louisiana Idaho Mississippi Montana North Carolina Nevada Oklahoma New Mexico South Carolina Oregon Tennessee Utah Texas Washington Virginia Wyoming Census Region Codes =================== Same as CBS code except Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, and West Virginia are coded as South (not Northeast).