CBS News Pre-Election Tracking Poll, October 29-31, 1988 (ICPSR 9150)

Version Date: Sep 25, 2009

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09150.v2

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Summary

In this survey respondents were asked their opinions of the Democratic and Republican presidential and vice-presidential candidates, and how likely they were to vote in the 1988 presidential election. They were asked how they would vote if the election were held the day of the survey, if their minds were made up, and how strongly they favored the candidates they chose. Other information elicited included respondents' choice if they were only voting for president or for vice-president, if they were better off now than they were eight years ago, if they approved of the way Reagan was handling his job as president, previous voting behavior, who they thought would win the election, and whether they thought so because of opinions expressed in the media, by polls, by people they know and trust, or because of what the candidates themselves said. Background information on individuals includes party affiliation, age, marital status, income, religious preference, employment status, education, race, and union membership.

Citation

CBS News. CBS News Pre-Election Tracking Poll, October 29-31, 1988. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-09-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09150.v2

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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)

1988-10-29 -- 1988-10-31

Date of Collection

1988-10-29 -- 1988-10-31

Data Collection Notes

  1. This file contains a weight variable that must be used in any analysis. The data contain blanks and alphabetics, and telephone exchanges have been recoded to '999' for reasons of confidentiality.

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Sample

Stratified random digit dialing.

Universe

Adults aged 18 and over in the United States.

Data Source

telephone interviews

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1989-09-26

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. CBS News Pre-Election Tracking Poll, October 29-31, 1988. ICPSR09150-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-09-25. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09150.v2

2009-09-25 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

1989-09-26 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:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.

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