ABC News Starr Report Poll #1, September 1998 (ICPSR 2638)

Version Date: Oct 24, 2008

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ABC News

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02638.v1

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Summary

This special topic poll, fielded on September 11, 1998, sought respondents' views on Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's ongoing investigation of President Bill Clinton and the resulting "Starr Report," submitted to the United States Congress on September 10, 1998. Respondents were asked whether they believed that Clinton had done anything illegal regarding the Lewinsky matter. Their opinions were sought on whether the president should resign, be impeached, or be censured if it were proven that he either lied under oath, encouraged former White House intern Monica Lewinsky to lie under oath, or asked aides to lie under oath. Those queried were also asked for their opinions of the Starr Report and the Clinton response to that report, in which the White House argued against impeachment. Respondents were asked whether they believed Starr or Clinton, whether they believed that the Starr Report was fair or politically motivated, and whether this was more a personal matter for Clinton or a public concern. Background information on respondents includes gender and political party affiliation.

Citation

ABC News. ABC News Starr Report Poll #1, September 1998. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-10-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02638.v1

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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)

1998-09

Date of Collection

1998-09-11

Data Collection Notes

  1. The data available for download are not weighted and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis.

  2. The CASEID variable was created for use with online analysis.

  3. This data collection was produced by Chilton Research Services, Radnor, PA.

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Sample

Stratified random-digit dialing. Within households, respondents were selected using a method developed by Leslie Kish and modified by Charles Backstrom and Gerald Hursh (see Backstrom and Hursh, SURVEY RESEARCH, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1963).

Universe

Persons aged 18 and over living in households with telephones in the contiguous 48 United States.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

1999-02-25

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:
  • ABC News. ABC News Starr Report Poll #1, September 1998. ICPSR02638-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-10-24. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02638.v1

2008-10-24 The weight variable was corrected and SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files and SAS and Stata supplemental files have been added to this data collection. The CASEID variable was created for use with online analysis. Question text has been added to the codebook and the data collection instrument has been taken out of the codebook and made into its own file.

1999-02-25 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.
  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

The data contain a weight variable (WGT) that should be used for analysis

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Notes