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Description & Citation--Study No. 4491

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4491
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04491
 
Title:CBS News Clinton/Ethics Poll, June 1997
 
Principal Investigator(s):CBS News
 
Series:CBS News/New York Times Poll Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:CBS News. CBS NEWS CLINTON/ETHICS POLL, JUNE 1997 [Computer file]. ICPSR04491-v1. New York, NY: CBS News [producer], 1997. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-07-02. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04491
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This poll, conducted June 10-11, 1997, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents of this poll were asked to give their opinions of President Bill Clinton, and his handling of the presidency, and other issues such as foreign policy and the economy. A series of questions solicited respondents' opinions about race relations including how respondents felt race relations were in the United States, how respondents felt race relations were in their communities, how they felt race relations would change four years in the future, how important an issue respondents felt race relations were to the future of the United States, and whether they thought race relation issues were within the presidents' control. Other race-related questions addressed whether respondents thought Bill Clinton cared about Black people, respondents' opinion about the degree of progress that has been made with the elimination of racial discrimination, and whether respondents expected to see full equality for Black people in their lifetime. Views were sought on the Paula Jones lawsuit and included questions that addressed whether the lawsuit would interfere with the president's ability to effectively perform his job and the respondents' opinion about the validity of the claims of both President Clinton and Paula Jones. Views were also sought on the death penalty and on the recent conviction of Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings. Demographic variables include sex, race, age, marital status, household income, education level, type of residential area (e.g. urban or rural), presence of children and teenagers in the household, political party affiliation, voter participation history and registration status, and political philosophy.
 
Subject Term(s):Clinton Administration (1993-2001), Clinton, Bill, death penalty, foreign policy, Jones, Paula, McVeigh, Timothy, national economy, Oklahoma City bombing, political ethics, presidency, presidential performance, public opinion, race relations, racial discrimination, social issues, voting behavior, Whitewater inquiry
 
Time Period:June 1997
 
Date(s) of Collection:June 10, 1997 - June 11, 1997
 
Unit of Observation:individual
 
Universe:Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over having a telephone at home.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) The data available for download are not weighted, and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis. (2) The data and documentation for this study were acquired from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (link). (3) The variables AREACODE and EXCHANGE were recoded for confidentiality. (4) The original data file contained three records per case and was reformatted into a data file with one record per case. (5) ICPSR created a unique sequential record identifier variable named CASEID.
 

Methodology

Sample:Stratified random digit dialing. Within households, respondents were selected using a method developed by Leslie Kish and modified by Charles Backstrom and Gerald Hursh (see Backstrom and Hursh, SURVEY RESEARCH, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1963).
 
Weight:The data contain weight variables that should be used for analysis.
 
Mode of Data Collection:telephone interview
 
Extent of Processing:CDBK.ICPSR/ DDEF.ICPSR/ FREQ.ICPSR/ REFORM.DATA/ REFORM.DOC
 

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:2008-07-02
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: CBS News Clinton/Ethics Poll, June 1997
 

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