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Description & Citation--Study No. 6292

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6292
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06292
 
Title:ABC News/Washington Post Poll, November 1993
 
Principal Investigator(s):ABC News
 
  The Washington Post
 
Series:ABC News/Washington Post Poll Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:ABC News/Washington Post. ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL, NOVEMBER 1993 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Radnor, PA: Chilton Research Services [producer], 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997., 2008-08-22. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06292
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This poll 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 were asked to identify the most important problem facing the United States and to comment on whether they approved of Bill Clinton's handling of his job as president, the nation's economy, foreign affairs, crime, the situation in Somalia, and the situation in Haiti. Other questions addressed issues such as health insurance and Clinton's health care plan. They were also asked whether the Democrats or the Republicans were doing a better job coping with the main problems the nation faces and whether First Lady Hillary Clinton had too much influence over Bill Clinton. Other topics covered in the poll include the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), whether Puerto Rico should be admitted as the 51st state, and the role of the United States in United Nations peacekeeping efforts. Demographic background variables include political orientation, sex, age, race, income, and education.
 
Subject Term(s):Clinton, Bill, Clinton, Hillary, crime, foreign affairs, Haiti, health insurance, health policy, national economy, NAFTA, peace keeping missions, presidency, public opinion, Somalia
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:November 1993
 
Date(s) of Collection:November 1993
 
Universe:Adults aged 18 and over living in households with telephones.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) A weight variable with two implied decimal places has been included and must be used in any analysis. (2) The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet. The codebook is also available in hardcopy form upon request from ICPSR.
 

Methodology

Sample:Households were selected by random-digit dialing. Within households, the respondent selected was the adult living in the household who last had a birthday and who was at home at the time of interview.
 
Data Source:telephone interviews
 

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:1997-05-16
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2008-08-22.
 
  2008-08-22 - SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files have been added to this data collection.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: ABC News/Washington Post Poll, November 1993
 

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