ABC News/Washington Post Poll of Public Opinion on Current Social and Political Issues, September 1982 (ICPSR 9047)
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ABC News;
The Washington Post
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09047.v1
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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 social and political issues. Respondents were questioned about political issues involved in the upcoming midterm congressional elections. Issues included the Middle East, the economy, inflation, Social Security, unemployment, and attitudes toward and perceptions of the two major political parties and Congress. Demographic information about the respondents includes age, sex, race, income, educational background, marital status, type of residence, and employment status.
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Households were selected by random digit dialing.
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Adults aged 18 years old and older living in households with telephones in the United States.
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telephone interviews
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1984-07-17
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- ABC News/The Washington Post. ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL OF PUBLIC OPINION ON CURRENT SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES, SEPTEMBER 1982. Conducted by Chilton Research Services. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1983. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09047.v1
1984-07-17 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:
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- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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