CBS News Monthly Poll, August 2002 (ICPSR 3702)
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CBS News
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03702.v3
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This 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. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of President George W. Bush and his handling of the presidency, the campaign against terrorism, and the economy, as well as their views on Dick Cheney and his handling of his job as vice president. They also commented on the national economy, the stock market, Bush's proposals for reforming corporate accounting practices, the Bush administration, disputes between Israel and the Palestinians, the United States' responsibility for and capability of resolving the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and United States military actions against Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Also probed were current and probable future unemployment in the respondents' households, their retirement status and situation, and their family financial situation. Those queried also presented their views on whether the United States had the right to try to weaken and overthrow governments that were unfriendly to the United States or that were believed to pose a threat to the United States. A series of questions focused on Elvis Presley, his home in Memphis, Tennessee, called Graceland, and rumors and stories about Elvis Presley being alive. Background information on respondents includes political affiliation, marital status, religion, education, age, gender, race, and income.
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This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited.
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This collection has not been processed by ICPSR staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this collection in essentially the same form in which they were received. When appropriate, documentation has been converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), data files have been converted to non-platform-specific formats, and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents' anonymity.
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The ASCII data file may have been replaced if the previous version was formatted with multiple records per case. A frequency file, which contains the authoritative column locations, has been added to the collection.
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A variation of random-digit dialing using primary sampling units (PSUs) was employed, consisting of blocks of 100 telephone numbers identical through the eighth digit and stratified by geographic region, area code, and size of place. 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).
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Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over having telephones at home.
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telephone interviews
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2003-08-07
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- CBS News. CBS News Monthly Poll, August 2002. ICPSR03702-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-04-29. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03702.v3
2009-04-29 As part of an automated retrofit of some studies in the holdings, ICPSR updated the frequency file for this collection to include the original question text.
2009-04-22 As part of an automated retrofit of some studies in the holdings, ICPSR created the full data product suite for this collection. Note that the ASCII data file may have been replaced if the previous version was formatted with multiple records per case. A frequency file, which contains the authoritative column locations, has also been added.
2003-08-07 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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