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CBS News/60 Minutes/Vanity Fair National Survey, March #3, 2013 (ICPSR 34998)

Released/updated on: 2014-04-09

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2013-03-01--2013-03-31

This poll, last of three fielded March 2013, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. Respondents were asked multiple questions about health care, including whether they had a favorable opinion on the Affordable Care Act, and whether they were satisfied with their quality of health care. Further questions collected opinions on global warming, including whether it emerged from human activity or natural causes, and the serious impact of global warming on the environment. Opinions were also collected on income taxes, genocide, and the seriousness of cyber-attacks. Respondents were also asked if they were following the news about the political movements in the Arab world, and whether they believed Egypt would become a stable democracy. Additional topics included 2012 presidential voting behavior, ethical behavior, music, traveling and hotel behavior, and various hypothetical vacation scenarios. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, marital status, education level, household income, religious preference, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, and whether respondents thought of themselves as born-again Christians.

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Public Opinion and Foreign Policy in the United States, China, India, Australia, and South Korea, 2006 (ICPSR 4650)

Released/updated on: 2008-07-18

Geographic coverage: South Korea, United States, China (Peoples Republic), Australia, Global, India

Time period: 2006-01-01--2006-12-31

The Chicago Council undertakes a large-scale public opinion study every two years that compares American and international public opinion on a wide range of important international issues. A significant part of each biennial survey is additionally dedicated to examining a timely theme. The theme of the 2006 survey was, "The Rise of China and India."

This data collection presents a unique comparison of international attitudes on how the emergence of China and India as economic dynamos and claimants to great power status will affect the global economy, international security, and politics. Moreover, this study sought to assess American public opinion (Part 1, Public Opinion Survey, United States) on a variety of challenges facing the United States today including international terrorism, nuclear proliferation, conflict in the Middle East, the rising economic and political power of Asia, economic competition from abroad, and threats to energy supplies and the environment. This data collection also provides an understanding of how the Chinese (Part 2, Public Opinion Survey, China) and Indian (Part 3, Public Opinion Survey, India) publics view their nations' international challenges and opportunities and their respective roles as emerging great powers. Parallel surveys were also conducted in Australia (Part 4, Public Opinion Survey, Australia) in conjunction with the Lowy Institute for International Policy, and in South Korea (Part 5, Public Opinion Survey, South Korea) in conjunction with the East Asia Institute.

Demographic variables include race, age, gender, religious affiliation, highest level of education, and political identification.

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Refugee or Internally Displaced Person? (ICPSR 1319)

Released/updated on: 2005-07-22

Geographic coverage: Global

The literature on the decision to abandon one's home in the face of violence is dominated by scholarship that implicitly assumes that forced migrants had no choice but to leave. Yet a spate of recent studies adopts a general rational choice framework that identifies new questions and challenges some conventional wisdom. This study builds on that work and breaks new ground by investigating the circumstances that lead some countries to produce a large number of refugees and relatively few internally displaced persons (IDPs) as opposed to a large number of IDPs and relatively few refugees. The investigators present the hypothesis that refugee flows are greater in the face of state (sponsored) genocide/politicide than they are in response to other state coercion, dissident campaigns of violence, or civil wars. It is argued that countries surrounded by poor, authoritarian regimes will produce fewer refugees (relative to IDPs) than those surrounded by wealthy, democratic neighbors. A sample selection model is employed to conduct statistical analyses using data on a global sample of countries for the period 1976-1995.