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Description & Citation--Study No. 3298

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:3298
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03298
 
Title:ABC News/Washington Post Afghanistan Attack Poll #1, October 2001
 
Principal Investigator(s):ABC News
 
  The Washington Post
 
Series:ABC News/Washington Post Poll Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:ABC News/The Washington Post. ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST AFGHANISTAN ATTACK POLL #1, OCTOBER 2001 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Horsham, PA: Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch [producer], 2001. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03298
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This special topic poll, conducted October 7, 2001, was undertaken to assess respondents' reactions to and feelings about the United States military action in Afghanistan. Respondents were asked whether they approved of the way President Bush was handling the response to terrorist attacks in the United States, and whether they supported United States air strikes on Afghanistan and sending a significant number of United States ground troops into that country. Those polled also gave their opinions on whether capturing or killing Osama bin Laden and his associates was a higher priority than overthrowing the Taliban government and how concerned they were about the possibility of further terrorist attacks in America. Respondents also tried to predict whether it would be a quick military action or a long war, and whether the military action in Afghanistan would make further terrorist attacks against the United States more or less likely. Opinions were elicited on whether the United States should have done more to find a diplomatic solution before attacking Afghanistan, whether the United States should mount a broader war against terrorism, whether the United States government was doing enough in its anti-terrorism campaign to win the support of Muslim people, and whether respondents supported the humanitarian aid for Afghans. Background information on respondents includes gender and political party affiliation.
 
Subject Term(s):Afghanistan War, attitudes, bin Laden, Osama, Bush Administration (George W.,2001-), Bush, George W., counterterrorism, diplomacy, military intervention, presidential performance, public opinion, September 11 attack, terrorism
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:October 2001
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) The data are provided as an SPSS portable file. (2) This collection has not been processed by ICPSR staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this collection in essentially the same form in which they were received. When appropriate, documentation has been converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), data files have been converted to non-platform-specific formats, and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents' anonymity. (3) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
 

Methodology

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2001-10-31
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: ABC News/Washington Post Afghanistan Attack Poll #1, October 2001
 

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