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Description & Citation--Study No. 6293

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6293
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06293
 
Title:ABC News Crime Poll, November 1993
 
Principal Investigator(s):ABC News
 
Series:ABC News/Washington Post Poll Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:ABC News. ABC NEWS CRIME 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], 1996. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06293
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This special topic poll focused on crime in the United States. Respondents were asked to estimate whether violent crime was going up or down in the United States and in their own neighborhoods. The survey also posed questions designed to estimate crime trends involving assault weapons and to determine whether respondents favored or opposed stronger legislation controlling the distribution of handguns and assault weapons in the United States. Additional questions related to legislation that would put a heavy tax on bullets. Respondents were asked whether they thought that stronger legislation controlling the distribution of handguns in the United States and the tax on bullets would reduce the amount of crime and violence, and if respondents would give up some of their freedoms if it meant a reduction in criminal activity. Demographic variables include race and sex.
 
Subject Term(s):assault weapons, attitudes, crime, gun control, gun control legislation, gun regulation, neighborhoods, public opinion, violent crime
 
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 in the 48 contiguous United States.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:A weight variable with two implied decimal places, applied only for sex, has been included and must be used in any analysis.
 

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:1996-11-21
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: ABC News Crime Poll, November 1993
 

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