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Description & Citation--Study No. 4618

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4618
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04618
 
Title:CBS News/MTV Monthly Poll #3, May 2006
 
Principal Investigator(s):CBS News
 
  MTV
 
Series:CBS News/New York Times Poll Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:CBS News/MTV. CBS NEWS/MTV MONTHLY POLL #3, MAY 2006 [Computer file]. ICPSR04618-v1. New York, NY: CBS News [producer], 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-02-27. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04618
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This poll, conducted May 30-June 7, 2006, 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 aged 13 to 24 were asked to give their opinions on the most important problem young people face, on the environment, on global warming, and on MTV's involvement in promoting environmental issues. Respondents were also asked about their cell phone and Internet usage, as well as their television viewing habits. Additional questions addressed homosexuality, racial diversity in the respondents' school, and race relations. Background information on respondents includes military service, voter registration status, party identification, sex, religious affiliation, education record, age, and ethnicity.
 
Subject Term(s):cellular phones, computer use, education, electronic mail systems, electronics, environment, global warming, homosexualtity, Internet, public opinion, race, race relations, telecommunications, television viewing
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:May 2006 - June 2006
 
Date(s) of Collection:May 30, 2006 - June 7, 2006
 
Universe:Adult population of the United States aged 13 to 24 and over having a telephone at home.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) Additional information about coding and weighting may be found in the codebook. (2) Truncated value labels in Q1 (11, 13, 45, 48, 54) and Q77 (5) were corrected. (3) BTCH has many unknown values that cannot be accounted for.
 

Methodology

Sample:A variation of random-digit dialing using primary sampling units (PSUs) was employed, consisting of blocks of 100 telephone numbers identical through the eighth digit and stratified by geographic region, area code, and size of place. 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 weights that should be used for analysis.
 
Mode of Data Collection:telephone interview
 

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:2008-02-27
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: CBS News/MTV Monthly Poll #3, May 2006
 

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