CBS News/New York Times Election Poll, February 2000 (ICPSR 4493)

Version Date: Apr 21, 2008

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Principal Investigator(s):
CBS News; The New York Times

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04493.v1

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Summary

This poll, fielded February 12-14, 2000, 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 give their opinions of President Bill Clinton and his handling of the presidency, foreign policy, and the economy. Views were sought on the condition of the national economy, the projected federal budget surplus, and the most important problem for the government to address in the coming year. Several questions asked how much attention respondents were paying to the 2000 presidential campaign, the likelihood that they would vote in the Republican or Democratic primary, which candidate they expected to win the nomination for each party, and for whom they would vote in the presidential primary and general election. Respondents were asked for their opinions of Republican presidential candidates George W. Bush, John McCain, and Alan Keyes, Democratic presidential candidates Al Gore and Bill Bradley, the main reason they held a favorable or unfavorable opinion of each candidate, and the importance of a candidate's personal qualities and position on issues. Opinions were also solicited of First Lady Hillary Clinton, former President George H.W. Bush, the Democratic, Republican, and Reform parties, and how well members of the United States Congress were handling their jobs. Additional topics included abortion, campaign finance reform, and the effect of elections on the federal government. Information was also collected on the importance of religion on respondents' lives, whether they had access to a computer, Internet access, and e-mail, whether they had served in the United States armed forces, and whether they had a child graduating high school in the class of 2000. Demographic variables include sex, race, age, marital status, household income, education level, religious preference, political party affiliation, political philosophy, voter participation history and registration status, the presence of children and teenagers in the household, and type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural).

Citation

CBS News, and The New York Times. CBS News/New York Times Election Poll, February 2000. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-04-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04493.v1

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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)

2000-02

Date of Collection

2000-02-12 -- 2000-02-14

Data Collection Notes

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

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

  3. Value labels for unknown codes were added in variables Q16, Q17, Q18, and Q19.

  4. The variables AREACODE and EXCHANGE were recoded for confidentiality.

  5. This data collection was produced by CBS News, New York, New York.

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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

Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over having a telephone at home.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2008-04-21

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, and The New York Times. CBS News/New York Times Election Poll, February 2000. ICPSR04493-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-04-21. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04493.v1

2008-04-21 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:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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Weight

The data contain a weight variable that should be used for analysis.

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Notes