New York Times Survey, December 1985 (ICPSR 8690)

Version Date: Mar 27, 2017

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Principal Investigator(s):
The New York Times

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08690.v3

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Summary

The major political parties are the focus of this survey. Respondents were asked to evaluate whether the Democratic or Republican party would do a better job of handling inflation, unemployment, foreign trade problems, the federal budget deficit, and new problems that may arise in the future, and whether either party would be more likely to keep the United States out of war and keep defenses strong. Respondents also were asked to identify which party has more money, is more organized, and cares more about the needs of big business, women, labor unions, farmers, and blacks. In addition, respondents were asked who they considered to be the important leaders of each party and if there were any groups within each party that concerned them. Other items include the respondent's party identification and voting history, Ronald Reagan's performance as President, big corporations, government corruption, the United States Supreme Court, and abortion. Demographic characteristics also are included.

Citation

The New York Times. New York Times Survey, December 1985. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-03-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08690.v3

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

state

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1985-12-14 -- 1985-12-18

Date of Collection

1985-12-14 -- 1985-12-18

Data Collection Notes

  1. This dataset has a weight variable that must be used in all analyses.

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Sample

Stratified random digit dialing.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Eligible voters 18 years or older.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Source

telephone interviews

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

1987-10-12

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • The New York Times. New York Times Survey, December 1985. ICPSR08690-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-03-27. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08690.v3

2017-03-27 The SPSS setup files were updated to conform to current standards. SAS and Stata setup files, as well as SPSS and Stata system files, a SAS transport (CPORT) file, an R data file, a tab-delimited data file, and a PDF codebook have been added to the collection.

1987-10-12 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Standardized missing values.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

The data are not weighted, however there is one weight variable, V7 (WEIGHT), that users may wish to apply during analysis.

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Notes