DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03698.v3
title: CBS News Monthly Poll, June 2002
title: Version 3

description: This poll is part of a continuing series of monthly polls
that solicit opinions on the presidency and on other political and
social issues. Respondents were asked to give their opinions on the
following: the effectiveness of President George W. Bush and his
administration, the war in Afghanistan, terrorism and the effects of
the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States Department of
Homeland Security, the scandals in the Catholic Church, possible
military action in Iraq, and the 2000 United States presidential and
2002 House of Representatives elections. Questions addressed
President Bush's handling of fighting in the Middle East, terrorism,
foreign policy, and the economy, the goals of the Bush administration
and its domestic policies, who was setting the administration's
policies, and how respondents viewed United States Attorney General
John Ashcroft. Other questions focused on the progress of the war in
Afghanistan and the ramifications and likelihood of capturing or
killing al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Questions probed for
respondents' opinions about the likelihood of another terrorist
attack, the use of military tribunals as opposed to civilian courts to
try terrorists, the government's actions to prevent terrorism, the
likelihood of a nuclear attack being launched by another country as
opposed to a terrorist organization, the establishment of the
Department of Homeland Security, pre-emptive strikes against other
countries, and the Central Intelligence Agency's involvement in
weakening foreign governments. Respondents were also queried about the
effectiveness of the Catholic Church and the Pope in handling sexual
abuse allegations against priests and drafting policies on how to deal
with future allegations. Background variables include age, sex,
education, ethnicity, political orientation, marital status, the lack
or presence of children in the household, ages of the children, 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, June 2002
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over
having telephones at home.
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' 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.