ABC News "World News Tonight" Starr Report Poll #5, September 1998 (ICPSR 2642)

Version Date: Nov 20, 2008

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ABC News

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02642.v2

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Summary

This special topic poll, fielded on September 14, 1998, sought respondents' views on Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's ongoing investigation of President Bill Clinton and the resulting "Starr Report," submitted to the United States Congress on September 10, 1998. Opinions were elicited on whether the president should remain in office, resign, be impeached, or be censured, if it were proven that he either lied under oath or encouraged former White House intern Monica Lewinsky to lie under oath. Respondents were asked whether they believed Starr or Clinton, whether they believed that the investigation had been fair or politically motivated, and whether the investigation was about sex or serious lawbreaking. Those queried were also asked whether they believed that Clinton's behavior in the Lewinsky affair was separate from his ability to govern. The results of the poll were announced on the ABC television program "World News Tonight." Background information on respondents includes sex and political party.

Citation

ABC News. ABC News “World News Tonight” Starr Report Poll #5, September 1998. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-11-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02642.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)

1998-09

Date of Collection

1998-09-14

Data Collection Notes

  1. The data available for download are not weighted and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis.

  2. This data collection was produced by Chilton Research Services, Radnor, PA.

  3. The CASEID variable was created for use with online analysis.

  4. The data and documentation for this study were acquired from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
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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

Persons aged 18 and over living in households with telephones in the contiguous 48 United States.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

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Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

1999-03-18

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:

  • ABC News. ABC News "World News Tonight" Starr Report Poll #5, September 1998. ICPSR02642-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-11-20. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02642.v2

2008-11-20 The weight variable was corrected and SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files and SAS and Stata supplemental files have been added to this data collection. The CASEID variable was created for use with online analysis. Question text has been added to the codebook and the data collection instrument has been taken out of the codebook and made into its own file.

1999-03-18 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:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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Weight

The data contain weight variables (WGT, POSTWGT) that should be used for analysis.

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Notes