ABC News/Washington Post Education Poll, September 1981 (ICPSR 8018)

Published: Feb 16, 1992

Principal Investigator(s):
ABC News; The Washington Post

Series:

ABC News/Washington Post Poll Series

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08018.v1

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Project Description

Summary

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 other political and social issues. This data collection focuses on perceptions of education in the United States. The poll consisted of interviews with school principals and the general population. The data are contained in two datasets. Part 1, Principals Survey, contains data on the number and racial mix of students in the respondents' schools. Respondents were also questioned about discipline problems, competency tests, busing to achieve integration, television and homework, parental involvement in school decision-making, budget cutbacks, school performance, and their personal occupational history. Part 2, General Public Survey, contains information on the respondents' confidence levels in public institutions, perceived problems in their local high school, the value of school programs, functions of schools, educational discipline, the education of their children, and their opinions of President Ronald Reagan. Demographic information was collected, including respondents' sex, age, race, occupation, education and income levels, marital status, number of children, political party identification, and voting behavior.

Citation

ABC News, and The Washington Post. ABC News/Washington Post Education Poll, September 1981 . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08018.v1

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Subject Terms

attitudes budget cuts education educational programs educational testing homework parental attitudes presidency public confidence public opinion racial integration Reagan, Ronald school busing school desegregation schools social issues student behavior students television viewing

Geographic Coverage

United States

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1981-09

Date of Collection

1981-09

Methodology

Data Source

telephone interviews

Data Type(s)

survey data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version Date

1992-02-16

Version History

1984-05-03 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:

Standardized missing values.
Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

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