CBS News Somalia Poll, December 1992 (ICPSR 6097)
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06097.v2
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In this special topic poll, respondents were queried regarding United States involvement in Somalia and the former Yugoslavia. Those surveyed were asked if the United States should be sending troops to Somalia to insure that food shipments got through to the people, whether food would get to the Somalians without United States military involvement, whether troops should stay in Somalia only as long as it took to set up supply lines, and whether sending troops to Somalia was worth the possible cost of American lives. Respondents were also asked if they favored the United States using its military forces to keep Serbia from violating the United Nations ban on Serbian flights over Bosnia, whether it was more important for the United States to be involved in Somalia or the former Yugoslavia, and whether helping the homeless and hungry in the United States was more important than trying to get food to the people in Somalia. Background information on respondents includes age, race, education, family income, service in the United States armed forces or reserves, political orientation, and party preference.
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A variation of random-digit dialing using primary sampling units (PSUs) was employed, consisting of blocks of 100 telephone numbers identical through the eighth digit and stratified by geographic region, area code, and size of place. 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]).
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Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over having telephones at home.
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telephone interviews
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1993-12-18
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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 Somalia Poll, December 1992 . ICPSR06097-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-01-28. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06097.v2
2010-01-28 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.
1993-12-18 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:
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