CBS News Monthly Poll, October 1999 (ICPSR 2866)

Version Date: Jul 28, 2009

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CBS News

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02866.v3

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Summary

This poll, fielded October 3-4, 1999, 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 provide assessments of the way in which President Bill Clinton and the United States Congress were handling their jobs, and to give their opinions of other public or political figures, including Attorney General Janet Reno and the FBI. A series of questions focused on the events surrounding the Waco, Texas, standoff and confrontation of 1993, including who should take responsibility and blame for the event, whether the cult members deaths could have been avoided, the actions of Congress and the Attorney General's office, and whether the public had been told, or would ever know, the whole truth. Background information on respondents includes age, sex, race (including Hispanic descent), education, marital status, voter registration, political party preference, and general political orientation. Respondents were also asked about computer and Internet access, additional telephone numbers at their home (i.e., cell phone, modem, fax, beeper), stock market investments, age of children in the household, and family income.

Citation

CBS News. CBS News Monthly Poll, October 1999  . Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-07-28. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02866.v3

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Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1999-10-03 -- 1999-10-04

Data Collection Notes

  1. (1) 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, hardcopy documentation has been converted to machine-readable form and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents' anonymity. (2) The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet.

  2. 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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Original Release Date

2000-03-15

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:

  • CBS News. CBS News Monthly Poll, October 1999 . ICPSR02866-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-07-28. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02866.v3

2009-07-28 Minor edits were made to the frequency file cover.

2009-07-22 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.

2000-03-15 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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