ABC News Vice-Presidential Debate Poll and Call-back Poll, October 1988 (ICPSR 9184)
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ABC News
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09184.v2
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This special topic poll, conducted October 3-5, 1988, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. The focus of this data collection was the opinions of registered voters prior to and immediately following the vice-presidential debate held October 5, 1988. Registered voters polled prior to the vice-presidential debate were asked about the likelihood that they would vote in the November 1988 general election, whether they planned to watch the vice-presidential debate, for whom they would vote if the presidential election were held that day, and the strength of their support for this candidate. Immediately following the vice-presidential debate, 739 respondents were recontacted about whether they had watched the debate, which candidate had won, for whom they would vote for if the presidential election were held that day, and whether vice-presidential candidates Quayle and Bentsen would be qualified to take over the presidency if needed. Demographic variables include sex, age, race, household income, political party affiliation, and education level.
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The data do not include a weight variable.
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To protect respondent confidentiality, respondent names were removed from the data file. The original data file contained two records per case and was reformatted into a data file with one record per case.
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ICPSR added a unique sequential record identifier variable named CASEID.
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According to the data collection instrument, code 3 in the variable Q13 (Education Level) included respondents who answered that they had attended a technical school.
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The data collection was produced by Chilton Research Services of Radnor, PA.
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Households were selected by random-digit dialing. Within households, the respondent selected was the adult living in the household who was a registered voter, who last had a birthday, and who was home at the time of the interview.
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Registered voters aged 18 and over living in households with telephones in the 48 contiguous United States.
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1990-05-01
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- ABC News. ABC News Vice-Presidential Debate Poll and Call-back Poll, October 1988. ICPSR09184-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-12-08. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09184.v2
2009-12-08 Respondent names were removed from the data file. SPSS, SAS, and Stata setup and system files were added. Question text was also added to the codebook.
1990-05-01 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:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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