CBS News Election Surveys, 1978 (ICPSR 7814)
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CBS News;
The New York Times
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07814.v1
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This data collection consists of two election surveys. Part 1, Pre-Congressional Poll, contains a nationwide telephone survey conducted in late September 1978, focusing on the respondents' voting intentions for the 1978 United States Congressional elections. A total of 1,451 randomly selected adults were surveyed. Respondents were asked whether they intended to vote and what issues would influence their vote, their reactions to President Carter's policies, and their preferences for presidential candidates in 1980. Demographic information including age, race, religion, income, political orientation, and education is available for each respondent. Part 2, Nationwide Election Day Poll, contains a nationwide "exit" survey conducted at the polls on election day, November 7, 1978. A total of 8,808 randomly selected voters were asked to fill out a questionnaire asking which party they voted for in the Congressional election and their opinion on a number of current political issues. Demographic information for respondents in Part 2 includes age, race, religion, income, and labor union affiliation. These datasets were made available to the ICPSR by the Election and Survey Unit of CBS News. The Pre-Congressional Poll was conducted solely by CBS News.
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There are three implied decimal places in the weight variables for both data files.
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Part 1: Random-digit dialing. Part 2: Precincts were selected with probability proportionate to the total vote cast in a recent past election. Within precincts, respondents were selected on a systematic random basis.
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Part 1: Adults with telephones in their households living in the coterminous United States. Part 2: Voters in the November 1978 congressional election.
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Part 1: telephone interviews, Part 2: self-enumerated questionnaires
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1984-05-08
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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/The New York Times. CBS NEWS ELECTION SURVEYS, 1978. New York, NY: CBS News and The New York Times [producer], 1978. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1981. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07814.v1
2006-01-18 File CB7814.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
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