NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Easter Season Poll, 1986 (ICPSR 8584)

Principal Investigator(s): New York Daily News

Summary: This survey of New York City residents focuses primarily on religion. Respondents were questioned about religious upbringing and education, current participation, specific beliefs, and religion's influence on their personal values. Other topics include sex education, abortion, the death penalty, and prayer in public schools. Demographic characteristics were also recorded. (more info)

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New York Daily News. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Easter Season Poll, 1986. ICPSR08584-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-05-03. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08584.v2

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08584.v2

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Summary:   This survey of New York City residents focuses primarily on religion. Respondents were questioned about religious upbringing and education, current participation, specific beliefs, and religion's influence on their personal values. Other topics include sex education, abortion, the death penalty, and prayer in public schools. Demographic characteristics were also recorded.

Subject Terms:   abortion, church buildings, demographic characteristics, domestic policy, issues, public schools, religion, schools, sexual attitudes, social attitudes, values

Geographic Coverage:   New York (state), New York City, United States

Time Period:  

• 1986-02

Date of Collection:  

• 1986-02

Universe:   The population of New York City aged 18 and over.

Data Types:   survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The data contain blanks. Included in the data is a weight variable which must be used in all analysis.

Sample:   Households were selected by random digit dialing.

Data Source:

telephone interviews

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• Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Original ICPSR Release:  1988-06-01

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• 2011-05-03 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

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