ABC News/Washington Post Colin Powell Speech to the United Nations Poll, February 2003 (ICPSR 3775)

Version Date: Jul 30, 2003

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Principal Investigator(s):
ABC News; The Washington Post

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03775.v1

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Summary

This special topic poll, conducted February 5, 2003, was undertaken to assess public opinion on Secretary of State Colin Powell's address to the United Nations about Iraq earlier that day. Respondents were asked whether they approved of the way President George W. Bush was handling the situation with Iraq and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, whether they supported or opposed United States military action against Iraq even without United Nations support, and whether the Bush administration had presented enough evidence to show why military action was necessary. Those polled were asked to assess their familiarity with Powell's address to the United Nations, whether Powell made a convincing case for going to war, and whether the evidence presented proved, or merely suggested, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Views were sought on whether the United States had presented strong evidence showing that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons, was trying to develop nuclear weapons, had provided direct support to the al Qaeda terrorist group, and had not cooperated with United Nations weapons inspectors. Respondents were asked how much longer the Bush administration should give United Nations weapons inspectors to search for weapons of mass destruction, and whether it was more important for the United States to move quickly against Iraq or wait to gain international support. Background information on respondents includes gender and political party.

Citation

ABC News, and The Washington Post. ABC News/Washington Post Colin Powell Speech to the United Nations Poll, February 2003. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003-07-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03775.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited.

Distributor(s)

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

2003-02

Date of Collection

2003-02-05

Data Collection Notes

  1. Additional information about sampling, interviewing, weighting, and sampling error may be found in the codebook.

  2. The data are provided as an SPSS portable file.

  3. 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, documentation has been converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), data files have been converted to non-platform-specific formats, and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents' anonymity.

  4. Produced by Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch, Horsham, PA, 2003.

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Sample

Households were selected by random-digit dialing. Within households, the respondent selected was the adult living in the household who last had a birthday and who was home at the time of the interview.

Universe

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

Unit(s) of Observation

Individuals

Data Source

telephone interviews

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2003-07-30

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, and The Washington Post. ABC News/Washington Post Colin Powell Speech to the United Nations Poll, February 2003. ICPSR03775-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03775.v1

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