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| ICPSR Study No.: | 6289 |
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Persistent URL:
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06289 |
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| Title: | ABC News "Nightline" Somalia Poll, October 1993 |
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| Principal Investigator(s): | ABC News |
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| Series: | ABC News/Washington Post Poll Series |
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| Bibliographic Citation: | ABC News. ABC NEWS ''NIGHTLINE'' SOMALIA POLL, OCTOBER
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. |
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| Summary: | For this special topic poll, respondents were asked whether
they approved of President Bill Clinton's handling of the situation in
Somalia and, looking back, whether they approved of former President
George Bush's decision to send United States troops to Somalia. The
U.S. role in Somalia was addressed in detail, with questions on
whether America's vital interests were at stake in Somalia, the
conditions under which the United States should withdraw from Somalia and
when, whether 450 more troops and tanks should be sent to Somalia,
whether the United States should continue trying to capture warlord
Mohammed Aideed, and whether the United States should respond with a
major military attack against Aideed's forces if American soldiers
held as prisoners couldn't be freed through negotiations. The results
of the poll were announced on the ABC television program ''Nightline''
the day the poll was taken. Demographic background variables include
political orientation and sex. |
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| Subject Term(s): | attitudes, Bush, George H.W., Clinton, Bill, military intervention, military operations, national interests, prisoners of war, public approval, public opinion, Somalia |
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| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
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| Time Period: | October 1993 |
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| Date(s) of Collection: | October 1993 |
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| Universe: | Adults aged 18 and over living in households with
telephones. |
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| Data Type: | survey data |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Data Source: | telephone interviews |
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| 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. |
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| Original ICPSR Release: | 1997-05-16 |
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