ABC News/Washington Post Social Security Poll, May 1981 (ICPSR 8015)
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ABC News;
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08015.v1
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This special-topic poll is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of political and social issues. This data collection focuses on the reactions of the elderly to the Reagan administration's proposed changes in Social Security benefits. Respondents' age, race, sex, education, and income level were also recorded.
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An oversample of the elderly was drawn from respondents who had been contacted in earlier studies.
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telephone interviews
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1984-05-11
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- ABC News/The Washington Post. ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST SOCIAL SECURITY POLL, MAY 1981. Conducted by Chilton Research Services. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1982. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08015.v1
1984-05-11 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:
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- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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