CBS News/60 Minutes/Vanity Fair National Poll, January #3, 2012 (ICPSR 34591)

Version Date: May 9, 2013

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Principal Investigator(s):
CBS News; 60 Minutes; Vanity Fair

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34591.v1

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Summary

This poll, the last of three fielded January 2012, is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. Opinions were collected on federal income taxes, the federal tax policy on capital gains, and whether respondents felt things in the United States were going in the right direction. Respondents were also queried on topics such as firearms, hedge funds, online piracy, and past presidents. Additional topics include respondents' television preferences, the Academy Awards, the Super Bowl, and Valentine's Day. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, marital status, education level, household income, religious preference, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, military service, and whether respondents thought of themselves as born-again Christians.

Citation

CBS News, 60 Minutes, and Vanity Fair. CBS News/60 Minutes/Vanity Fair National Poll, January #3, 2012. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-05-09. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34591.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

congressional district

Distributor(s)

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

2012-01

Date of Collection

2012-01
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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).

Universe

Persons aged 18 years or older living in households with telephones in the Unites States.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

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Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2013-05-09

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, and Vanity Fair. CBS News/60 Minutes/Vanity Fair National Poll, January #3, 2012. ICPSR34591-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-05-09. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34591.v1

2013-05-09 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:

  • 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. 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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