DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04481
title: CBS News Telenoticas Survey, October 1996
title: Archival Version

description: This poll, fielded October 23-27, 1996, 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 and issues such as foreign
 policy. Several questions asked how much respondents had been paying
 attention to the presidential campaign, whether they were likely to
 vote in the election for president, which candidate they would vote
 for if the presidential and United States House of Representatives
 elections were being held that day, whether they had favorable
 opinions of the candidates and trusted them, and who they expected to
 win. Respondents were asked to rate the condition of the national
 economy, whether they thought trade with other countries, such as
 Mexico and Canada, was good for the United States economy, whether
 they approved of the way Bill Clinton was handling relations with
 Cuba, Mexico, and Canada, and the importance of these countries to the
 United States' interests. Several questions asked for respondents'
 opinions on welfare, including whether most people on welfare were
 immigrants or belonged to a specific ethnic group, whether respondents
 approved of a recent law that changed the welfare system, and whether
 eligibility for welfare should be limited. A series of questions asked
 respondents whether trade restrictions were necessary, whether they
 favored the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), whether it
 should be expanded to other Latin American countries, and how many
 foreign products respondents had purchased in the past few years.
 Respondents were asked for their opinions on immigration to the United
 States, including the effects of immigration on society, whether
 immigrants should be eligible for entitlements programs and other
 benefits, and the country of origin of current legal and illegal
 immigrants. Information was also collected on whether respondents
 considered themselves part of the conservative Christian movement, and
 Hispanic respondents were asked about their country of birth and that
 of their ancestors. Additional topics included abortion, affirmative
 action, race and gender discrimination in job hiring practices, the
 trade embargo against Cuba, and whether the government should be more
 involved in people's lives and do more to solve national problems.
 Demographic variables include sex, race, age, household income,
 education level, political party affiliation, political philosophy,
 voter participation history and registration status, employment
 status, military service, whether respondents had any children under
 the age of 18, household union membership, length of time living at
 current residence, and type of residential area (e.g., urban or
rural).
description: The data contain a weight variable that should be used for
analysis.
description: 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). The data contain an oversample of Hispanic respondents.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CBS News Telenoticas Survey, October 1996
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over
having a telephone at home.
description: telephone interview(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
 the variables Q10 and Q54. (4) The variables AREA_CODE and EXCH_CODE
 were recoded for confidentiality. (5) Interviews were conducted in
 both English and Spanish, as indicated in the variable HISPANIC.
 Survey questions appear in both languages in the data collection
 instrument. (6) The probable electorate is accessible by using the
 WEIGHT_2 variable. (7) This study includes an oversample of Hispanic
 respondents as indicated in the SAMPLE variable. (8) The original data
 file contained three records per case and was reformatted into a data
 file with one record per case. (9) ICPSR created a unique sequential 
record identifier variable named CASEID.