DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02923.v3
title: CBS News New Hampshire Primary Poll #2, January 2000
title: Version 3

description: This special topic poll, conducted January 28-30, 2000, was
designed to assess respondents' views on the upcoming presidential
election and New Hampshire primaries. Residents of the state of New
Hampshire were asked to give their opinions of President Bill Clinton
and his handling of the presidency, as well as their views of former
President George Bush. Respondents were asked whether they intended to
vote in the New Hampshire presidential primaries to be held February
1, 2000, and what their opinions were of Democratic candidates Vice
President Al Gore and former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley, and
Republican candidates Texas governor George W. Bush, Arizona senator
John McCain, publisher Steve Forbes, radio talk show host Alan Keyes,
and Family Research Council president Gary Bauer. Those polled were
asked which candidate they intended to vote for and which candidate
they thought would win, and whether they had ever considered voting in
the opposing political party's primary. Respondents were further asked
whether they watched or listened to the January 26, 2000, presidential
primary debates, which candidate they thought won the debates, and
which candidate could be trusted. Additional questions relating to the
presidential campaigns probed respondent views on the candidates' use
of their campaign time, the amount of attention respondents had given
to the campaign, and whether they had seen any of the candidates in
person. Additional survey items focused on abortion, the most
important problems facing the country, and whether a flat or graduated
income tax system was preferable. Background information on
respondents includes age, gender, political party, political
orientation, voter registration and participation history, marital
status, education, religion, race, Hispanic descent, computer and
Internet access, military service, years as a resident of New
Hampshire, 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 New Hampshire Primary Poll #2, January 2000
description: Adult population of the state of New Hampshire aged 18 and
over having telephones 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' anonymity. (2) The codebook is provided by ICPSR
as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was
developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF
reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how
to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web
site.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.