DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03700.v1
title: CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #2, July 2002
title: Version 1

description: This poll 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 George W. Bush and his handling of the presidency, foreign policy, the economy, and the situation between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as their views on the single most important problem for the president and Congress to address in the coming year. Respondents also expressed their views on Congress and the federal government, big business influence on George W. Bush, the seriousness of corporate accounting scandals for the nation's economy, and big business contribution to communities and the environment. Respondents gave their opinions of John Ashcroft and Dick Cheney, as well as their views on reports about companies accused of fraudulent accounting practices, George W. Bush's proposals for reforming corporate accounting practices, the frequency of white-collar crime in American business, insider trading in the stock market, George W. Bush's past business dealings with Harken Energy, and Dick Cheney's past business dealings as the chief executive of Halliburton Company. Respondents also answered a set of questions regarding the establishment of a Palestinian homeland in the West Bank and Gaza, the Republican party, the Democratic party, and the health care system in the United States. Respondents were asked to express their opinions about the ability of the United States government to capture Osama Bin Laden and likelihood of another terrorist attack in the United States. In addition, those queried were asked a series of questions regarding their personal investments. Background information includes respondents' political affiliation, marital status, number of household members, religion, education, age, race, income, and gender.
description: 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..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS1: Dataset
description: CBS News/New York Times Poll Series
description: 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.
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.
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over having telephones at home.
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]).