CBS News/New York Times Abortion Polls, September-October 1989 (ICPSR 9491)

Version Date: Jun 1, 2009

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Principal Investigator(s):
CBS News; The New York Times

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09491.v2

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Summary

This data collection focuses on abortion issues. Respondents were asked whether they approved of the July Supreme Court decision in Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services, whether abortion should be legal and under what circumstances (e.g., possibility of birth defects, rape, unmarried motherhood, health risk to the woman, age of the female, and whether the pregnancy would force a teenager to quit high school or a professional woman to interrupt her career), and whether they favored or opposed possible restrictions on abortion, such as requiring parental consent and prohibiting public employees or hospitals from performing abortions. In addition, respondents' opinions were sought concerning use of public funds for abortion, child care costs, adoption services for unwanted children, whether their vote choices were affected by a candidate's stand on abortion, government regulation of abortion, the reasonableness/extremism of pro- and anti-abortionists, whether abortion was murder, and abortion as a form of birth control. In all surveys, respondents were asked if they approved of George Bush's handling of the presidency. A more detailed evaluation of Bush's performance in specific areas as well as Bush's relationship with Congress, important problems facing the nation, taxes, and United States aid to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union also were addressed in the National Survey (Part 1). Background information on respondents includes registered voter status, 1988 presidential vote choice, political party affiliation, age, income, sex, religious preference, education, and race.

Citation

CBS News, and The New York Times. CBS News/New York Times Abortion Polls, September-October 1989. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-06-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09491.v2

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Distributor(s)

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

1989-09-12 -- 1989-10-01

Date of Collection

1989-09-12 -- 1989-10-01

Data Collection Notes

  1. These files contain a weight variable that must be used in any analysis.

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Universe

Adults aged 18 and over.

Data Source

telephone interviews

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1991-05-03

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, and The New York Times. CBS News/New York Times Abortion Polls, September-October 1989. ICPSR09491-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-06-01. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09491.v2

2009-06-01 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 8 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1991-05-03 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:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
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