DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03822.v3
title: CBS News Monthly Poll #1, April 2003
title: Version 3

description: This poll, conducted April 2-3, 2003, is part of a
continuing series of monthly polls that solicit public opinion on
political and social issues. Respondents were asked to give their
opinions on President George W. Bush and his overall job performance,
his handling of military action against Iraq, his administration's
expectations of the outcome of military action against Iraq, and
whether he was the primary decision- and policymaker concerning
military action in Iraq. Respondents were also asked whether they
thought Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was alive or dead, whether they
thought the benefits of removing Saddam Hussein outweighed the
economic and human costs, and whether he was involved in the September
11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, DC.
Questions were asked about the likelihood of another terrorist attack
in the United States, whether military action against Iraq was part of
the war on terrorism, and whether the chances of another terrorist
attack had been affected by military action in Iraq. Respondents were
asked whether they approved of military action against Iraq, whether
they were following the news coverage concerning Iraq, how they viewed
media coverage of military action in Iraq, what their personal
expectations of the outcome of military action were, how long they
thought United States military personnel would be in Iraq, whether an
appropriate amount of force was being used, what the probability of
military and civilian casualties in Iraq was, how military action
against Iraq would affect current and future relations with other Arab
countries, and whether they or an immediate family member was a member
of the United States military. Background variables include age, sex,
ethnicity, political orientation, marital status, religious
preference, and household income.
description: 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).
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CBS News Monthly Poll #1, April 2003
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over
having a telephone at home.
description: (1) This collection has not been processed by ICPSR
staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this
collection in essentially the same form in which they were received.
When appropriate, documentation has been converted to Portable
Document Format (PDF), data files have been converted to
non-platform-specific formats, and variables have been recoded to
ensure respondents' privacy.The ASCII data file may have been replaced if the previous version was formatted with multiple records per case. A frequency file, which contains the authoritative column locations, has been added to the collection.