CBS News/New York Times O.J. Simpson Poll, June 1994 (ICPSR 6600)
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CBS News;
The New York Times
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06600.v2
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This special topic poll focused on the O.J. Simpson murder trial, including the role of the news media. Respondents were asked whether the media had done a good or bad job covering the case, whether they had spent too much or too little time on stories about O.J. Simpson and the two victims in the case, whether the stories the news media had reported about the case were mostly accurate, and whether the news media had been too harsh or too easy in their treatment of Simpson. Background information on respondents includes voter registration status, household composition, vote choice in the 1992 presidential election, political party, political orientation, education, age, sex, race, religious preference, and family income.
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A variation of random-digit dialing 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. 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]).
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Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over having telephones at home.
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telephone interviews
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1996-05-14
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- CBS News/The New York Times. CBS NEWS/NEW YORK TIMES O.J. SIMPSON POLL, JUNE 1994. 2nd ICPSR version. New York, NY: CBS News [producer], 1994. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06600.v2
2000-06-21 The variable "first name" was removed to further ensure the privacy of respondents.
1998-01-14 ICPSR created an appendix to the codebook to clarify codes for many of the standard demographic variables.
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