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| ICPSR Study No.: | 6293 |
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Persistent URL:
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06293 |
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| Title: | ABC News Crime Poll, November 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 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Subject Term(s): | assault weapons, attitudes, crime, gun control, gun control legislation, gun regulation, neighborhoods, public opinion, violent crime |
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| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
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| Time Period: | November 1993 |
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| Date(s) of Collection: | November 1993 |
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| Universe: | Adults aged 18 and over living in households with
telephones in the 48 contiguous United States. |
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| Data Type: | survey data |
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| 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. |
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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: | 1996-11-21 |
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