CBS News/60 Minutes/New York Times/Vanity Fair Monthly Poll #2, October 2010 (ICPSR 33062)

Version Date: Mar 20, 2012

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Principal Investigator(s):
CBS News; 60 Minutes; The New York Times; Vanity Fair

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33062.v1

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Summary

This poll, fielded October 6-8, 2010 is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. Respondents were asked how well Barack Obama was handling the presidency, whether they felt that Barack Obama should be re-elected, and whether the country was going in the right direction. Opinions were collected about the Tea Party movement, gays serving in the military, the legalization of marijuana, prohibition, the Iraq war, Social Security, and the Voting Rights Act. Additional topics included Thanksgiving, Columbus Day, Halloween and trick-or-treating, fictional and hypothetical scenarios, and knowledge of common acronyms. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, marital status, education level, household income, employment status, religious preference, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, and whether respondents thought of themselves as born-again Christians.

Citation

CBS News, 60 Minutes, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair. CBS News/60 Minutes/New York Times/Vanity Fair Monthly Poll #2, October 2010. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-03-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33062.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)

2010-10

Date of Collection

2010-10-06 -- 2010-10-08

Data Collection Notes

  1. To preserve respondent confidentiality, codes for the variable CNTY (FIPS County) were replaced with 9s.

  2. The DDL file formerly released as the "Data Collection Instrument" will no longer be released for this series.

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Sample

A variation of random-digit dialing (RDD) using primary sampling units (PSUs) was employed, consisting of blocks of 100 telephone numbers identical through the eighth digit and stratified by geographic region, area code, and size of place. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. 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).

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Persons aged 18 years and older living in households with telephones in the United States.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2012-03-20

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, 60 Minutes, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair. CBS News/60 Minutes/New York Times/Vanity Fair Monthly Poll #2, October 2010. ICPSR33062-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-03-20. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33062.v1

2012-03-20 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.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Weight

The data contain a weight variable that should be used in analyzing the data. According to the CBS News Web site, the data were weighted to match United States Census Bureau breakdowns on age, sex, race, education, and region of the country. The data were also adjusted for the fact that people who share a telephone with others have less chance to be contacted than people who live alone and have their own telephones, and that households with more than one telephone number have more chances to be called than households with only one telephone number.

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Notes