ABC News/Washington Post Poll, September 1986 (ICPSR 8637)
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ABC News;
The Washington Post
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08637.v1
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This survey covers a variety of national issues and includes special sections on health, labor unions, and hijacking. Respondents were asked to rate Reagan's performance as president, to describe the state of the economy, and to tell which party they would be voting for in the upcoming congressional election. The health questions include: what the respondents consider to be the nation's greatest health problem, what experience (if any) they have had with cancer, and if they have modified certain behaviors in order to lower their risk of getting cancer. In the section on labor unions, respondents were asked if they had belonged to a union as well as several questions regarding their opinions of labor unions. The hijacking questions include whether or not respondents are afraid to travel on international flights and whether they believe that the United States strike against Libya will lead to more or less terrorism. Demographic characteristics were also recorded.
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The data contain blanks. Included in the data is a weight variable which must be used in all analysis.
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Households were selected by random digit dialing.
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The population of the United States aged 18 and over.
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telephone interviews
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1988-06-01
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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:
- ABC News/Washington Post. ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL, SEPTEMBER 1986. Radnor, PA: Chilton Research Services [producer], 1986. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-05-16. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08637.v1
2008-05-16 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files have been added to this data collection.
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