CBS News/New York Times New York City Mayoral Primary Exit Polls, September 1989 (ICPSR 9490)

Version Date: Jun 14, 2012

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Principal Investigator(s):
CBS News; The New York Times

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09490.v2

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Summary

This data collection, fielded on September 12, 1989, consists of responses to a survey of voters in the New York City Democratic and Republican mayoral primaries. Respondents were asked which mayoral candidate they voted for, how much they liked that candidate, when they decided on that candidate, which issues and factors most affected their vote, how the Bensonhurst incident influenced their vote, if race was a factor in voting, and if they had been contacted by phone on election day about voting. Respondents also evaluated Ed Koch's job performance, expressed favorable/unfavorable opinions of each candidate, speculated on David Dinkins' performance should he be elected mayor, and indicated who they would favor in a runoff between Koch and Dinkins in the general election. Additional items include how respondents voted in the 1988 Democratic presidential primary and in the 1989 primary for municipal offices. Demographic information includes sex, race, age, political orientation, education, family income, union membership, employment, birthplace, housing situation, parental status, subway usage, and sexual orientation.

Citation

CBS News, and The New York Times. CBS News/New York Times New York City Mayoral Primary Exit Polls, September 1989. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-06-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09490.v2

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1989-09-12

Date of Collection

1989-09-12

Data Collection Notes

  1. Please disregard the column locations provided in the "Original ICPSR Codebook, 1991 Release", as they are not always applicable to the data file. The correct column locations for the ICPSR-produced data file can be found in the SPSS and SAS setup files, and in the Stata dictionary file.

  2. In both DS1: Democratic Primary, and DS2: Republican Primary, an undocumented code 0 is present in variables QC, QB, QA, QH, QU1, QE1, QF1, QF2, QV1, QW1, QX1, QY1, QZ, QI, QJ, QK, QL, and QM.

  3. This data collection was produced by CBS News, New York, NY.

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Sample

The election surveys were conducted at polling places among a sample of voters immediately after they cast their votes. The precincts are a random subsample of those used by CBS News for estimating election outcome. Sample precincts were selected with probability proportionate to the total vote cast in a recent past election. The sampling frame consisted of all precincts in New York City. Within precincts, respondents were selected on a systematic random basis.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Voters participating in the September 12, 1989 New York City mayoral primary election.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Source

self-enumerated forms

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1991-05-03

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:
  • CBS News, and The New York Times. CBS News/New York Times New York City Mayoral Primary Exit Polls, September 1989. ICPSR09490-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-06-14. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09490.v2

2012-06-14 SPSS, SAS, and Stata setup files, as well as SPSS and Stata system files and a SAS transport (CPORT) file have been added to this collection. The codebook has been updated.

2006-01-18 File CB9490.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

1991-05-03 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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Weight

The data contain a weight variable that must be used in any analysis.

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Notes