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CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll, August 1990 (ICPSR 9503)
Released/updated on: 2010-09-16
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1990-08-16--1990-08-19
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. Topics covered include foreign policy, the national economy, taxes, respondents' views of the most important problem facing the country and which political party could best handle it, present consequences and future expectations regarding Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the United States' response, whether inflation or unemployment was a more important problem, the federal budget deficit, respondents' party preferences in the 1990 United States House of Representatives election and 1992 presidential election, standards of ethics in government, and factors affecting respondents' preferences in congressional elections. Additionally, respondents were questioned regarding the savings and loan crisis. They were asked how banks compared with savings and loans and who has benefited most from the policies of the federal government. Other topics covered include abortion, respondent's financial situation, whether voting, jury duty, and military service is a duty or a choice, national handgun laws, capital punishment, whether convicted murderers serving life sentences should be paroled, and opinions of George Bush, Neil Bush, David Souter, Congress, and the Democratic and Republican parties. Demographic information collected includes sex, age, race, education, parental status, family income, employment status, religion, ethnicity, political orientation, party preference, voting behavior, party of United States Representative, jury duty service, and service in the armed forces.
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CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #2, October 1990 (ICPSR 9616)
Released/updated on: 2010-06-24
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1990-10-28--1990-10-31
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 how things were going in the United States on a scale of 1 to 10, the most important problem facing the country and which political party could best handle it, foreign policy, the national economy and recession, state economies, the job done by Congress in general and the respondent's representative in particular, the federal budget deficit and the deficit reduction plan, state election campaigns, and satisfaction with choices in state elections. Respondents also were asked about their voter registration status, party preference in the 1990 election for the United States House of Representatives, likelihood of voting in the 1990 elections for Congress, George Bush as a factor in voting for Congress, helpfulness of television commercials in choosing who to vote for for Congress, whether the respondent voted for Bush or Dukakis in 1988 or chose not to vote/was prevented from voting, whether the respondent voted in the 1986 elections for United States Congress or chose not to vote/was prevented from voting, and the most recent election in which the respondent voted. Other topics included Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the United States' response, dependability of Israel as an ally, the savings and loan problem, the drug problem, the environment, education, raising taxes to reduce the deficit, interpreting the meaning of Bush's statement "Read my lips: No new taxes," Bush's veto of the civil rights bill, government as self-serving or beneficial to all, re-election of respondent's representative and members of Congress, trustworthiness of government and Congress, influence of elections on government's attention to what people think, and the amount of input people have in what government does. In addition, survey respondents were queried for their opinions on national health insurance, whether decisions of Congress were mostly right or wrong, Bush's leadership, differences in what Republican and Democratic parties stand for, positiveness/negativeness of state political campaigns compared to ten years ago, qualifications of elected officials compared to ten years ago, the amount of attention given to political ads on television and radio and the influence of those ads, whether who is elected makes a difference, financial status of respondent compared to a year ago, quality of respondent's life compared to their parents' lives, and employment/jobs vs. inflation/rising prices as the most important economic problem facing the country.
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CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #1, October 1990 (ICPSR 9615)
Released/updated on: 2010-03-31
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1990-10-08--1990-10-10
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.
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ABC News Business World Poll, March 1989 (ICPSR 9244)
Released/updated on: 2007-09-18
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1989-03-16--1989-03-16
This data collection explores respondents' opinions about the savings and loan industry. Respondents were asked whether they had any savings in federally insured savings and loan institutions, whether they had withdrawn their monies within the last few months and, if so, the reason for withdrawal, and whether they were planning to withdraw monies in the future. Respondents also were asked if they had heard about the financial crisis in the savings and loan industry, and if the crisis had personally affected or might affect them in the future. Additionally, respondents were queried about their level of confidence in the federal insurance system's ability to compensate if savings and loan institutions go out of business, Bush's plan to raise money for the federal savings bank insurance program, and Bush's opinion that there was no danger for people with money in savings and loans institutions. Background information on respondents includes age, 1988 yearly household income, and sex.
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ABC News Business World Poll, February 1989 (ICPSR 9239)
Released/updated on: 2007-07-03
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1989-02-08--1989-02-09
This data collection explores respondents' opinions about the savings and loan industry. Respondents were asked whether they had any savings in federally insured savings and loan institutions, whether they had withdrawn their monies within the last few months and, if so, the reason for withdrawal, and whether they planned to withdraw monies in the future. Respondents also were asked if they had heard or read about the financial crisis in the savings and loan industry, if this crisis has affected them personally or would in the future. Respondents were queried about their level of confidence in the federal insurance system's ability to compensate if savings and loan institutions go out of business, Bush's plan to raise money for the federal savings bank insurance program, and Bush's opinion that there was no danger for persons with money in savings and loan institutions. Additionally, respondents were questioned regarding President Bush's cabinet choices, specifically his nomination of John Tower as secretary of defense. Respondents were asked if Tower's nomination should be confirmed or denied based on charges made during confirmation hearings. Background information on respondents includes sex and age.
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Explanations for the Increased Riskiness of Banks in the 1980's (ICPSR 1088)
Released/updated on: 1996-01-03
Geographic coverage: United States
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