CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #1, October 1990 (ICPSR 9615)

Version Date: Mar 31, 2010

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

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09615.v2

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Summary

This data collection is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that evaluate the Bush presidency and solicit opinions on a variety of political and social issues. Demographic information collected includes sex, age, race, education, family income, religion, ethnicity, political orientation, party preference, and voting behavior. Specific topics covered in this survey include foreign policy, the economy and the recession, the federal budget deficit, Dan Quayle, state election campaigns, voter registration status, party preference in the 1990 election for United States House of Representatives, likelihood of voting in the 1990 elections for Congress, and term limits for members of Congress. Other areas on which respondents' opinions were sought include the savings and loan crisis, whether the interests of the government and Congress were self-serving or beneficial to all, re-election of respondent's representative and members of Congress, Democratic vs. Republican control of the White House and House of Representatives, the Cold War, whether the Soviet Union and Germany were peace-loving or aggressive, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the response of the United States, female reporters in professional sports team locker rooms, and major league baseball. A series of items focusing on marriage included whether divorce or constant domestic arguments were more harmful to children, respondent's marital status, likelihood of remarriage if divorced, initiating party in divorce, divorce vs. keeping the marriage together, quality of communication and trust in marriage, and whether the respondent would marry the same person again.

Citation

CBS News, and The New York Times. CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #1, October 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-03-31. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09615.v2

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

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

1990-10-08 -- 1990-10-10

Date of Collection

1990-10-08 -- 1990-10-10

Data Collection Notes

  1. A weight variable is included that must be used in any analysis. Telephone exchanges, telephone numbers, and the names of respondents have been recoded to "999" for reasons of confidentiality.

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Sample

Stratified random digit dialing. 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]).

Universe

Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over.

Data Source

telephone interviews

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1992-05-12

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 Monthly Poll #1, October 1990. ICPSR09615-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-03-31. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09615.v2

2010-03-31 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

1992-05-12 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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