ABC News/Washington Post Poll #2, September 1990 (ICPSR 9558)

Version Date: Jul 30, 2007

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

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09558.v1

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Summary

This data collection focuses on the federal budget deficit and on issues dealing with the rich and the poor in America. Respondents were asked if they approved of the way George Bush, Democrats in Congress, and Republicans in Congress were handling the the federal budget deficit, and who was more to blame for the larger deficit. Additionally, respondents were asked how much money it takes to be rich in the United States, whether they would want to be rich, how likely it was that they would ever be rich or poor, whether the percentage of Americans who are rich was increasing, and whether they respected and admired rich people. Other questions asked respondents if they characterized rich people as more likely to be honest, snobbish, intelligent, and a variety of other traits, whether respondents would be more or less likely to vote for a candidate who was a millionaire/self-made millionaire, and which political party better represented the interests of poor, rich, and middle class people. Background information on respondents includes political alignment, 1988 presidential vote choice, registered voter status, education, age, religion, social class, marital status, number of people in the household, labor union membership, employment status, race, income, sex, and state/region of residence.

Citation

ABC News, and The Washington Post. ABC News/Washington Post Poll #2, September 1990. [distributor], 2007-07-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09558.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1990-09-20 -- 1990-09-24

Date of Collection

1990-09-20 -- 1990-09-24

Data Collection Notes

  1. The data contain blanks and alphabetic characters. A weight variable is included that must be used in any analysis.

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Sample

Households were selected by random digit dialing. Within household, the respondent selected was the adult living in the household who last had a birthday and who was at home at the time of the interview.

Universe

Adults aged 18 and over living in households with telephones in the 48 contiguous United States and the District of Columbia.

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:
  • ABC News/Washington Post. ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL #2, SEPTEMBER 1990. Radnor, PA: Chilton Research Services [producer], 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-07-30. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09558.v1

2007-07-30 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files have been added to this data collection.

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