CBS News Monthly Poll #1, April 2006 (ICPSR 4614)
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CBS News
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04614.v1
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This poll, conducted April 6-9, 2006, 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 on the current direction of the country, the most important problem the country is facing, the national economy, and to rate the job performance of the United States Congress. Respondents were also asked about the way George W. Bush was handling certain issues, such as the economy, immigration, the war in Iraq, and terrorism, whether or not they approved of his overall job performance, and whether or not he and his policies would affect the way they would vote in Congressional elections. The next section of the survey addressed immigration, legal and illegal immigrants, amnesty, and a security fence between the United States and Mexico. The survey also contained questions about Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic clergy, various religious groups, Creationism, the Bible, and the respondent's religious background, beliefs, and practices. Respondents were then asked for their opinions on the Republican and Democratic parties, and the war in and the future of Iraq. Additional questions solicited information on whether or not the respondents or someone they knew had served in Iraq, as well as the respondents' television news viewing habits. Background information on respondents includes military service, voter registration status, party identification, marital status, sex, religious preference, education record, age, ethnicity, and income.
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Additional information about coding and weighting may be found in the codebook.
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CASEID was reformatted, making it a unique identifier.
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An incorrect value label for Q2 was corrected from "The President/Bill Clinton/Leadership" to "The President/Leadership," so that it would refer to the president in office at the time of the survey.
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Truncated value labels in Q2 and EDUC were corrected.
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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 a telephone at home.
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2007-12-20
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- CBS News. CBS NEWS MONTHLY POLL #1, APRIL 2006. ICPSR04614-v1. New York, NY: CBS News [producer], 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-12-20. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04614.v1
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