DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03982.v3
title: CBS News Monthly Poll, November 2003
title: Version 3

description: This poll, fielded during November 2003, is part of a
continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on
the presidency and on a range of other social and political
issues. Those surveyed were asked to give approval ratings for
President George W. Bush and his handling of the economy, to rate his
honesty and integrity, and to rate the current state of the economy
and its possible future. Respondents were asked whether the war on
Iraq was worth the costs, whether they believed that President Bush
and/or his administration told everything they knew about the
existence of weapons of mass destruction, and whether they believed
that either the United States or the Iraqi people were able to create
a stable democracy. Questions seeking respondent opinions on the
Democratic and Republican parties included which party the respondents
believed advocated the creation of new jobs and was more likely to
make the United States safe from terrorism. In regards to the upcoming
presidential election, respondents were asked if they could name any
of the Democratic candidates for president and how likely they were to
vote in a party primary or caucus. Questions also asked what beliefs
or background the respondent would like a presidential candidate to
have, such as support of the war in Iraq or past active military duty.
Respondents were asked for their opinions on civil unions for
homosexual couples and gun control laws. Background information
collected includes sex, parental status, labor union membership,
whether a job was lost in the household in the past year, Armed Forces
membership/veteran status, favorite music, whether the respondent was
a fan of NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), how
many days a week the respondent watched the morning network news
programs, place of birth, type of job (blue collar, white collar,
etc.), religious preference, political identification and philosophy,
voting record, marital status, level of education, age, ethnicity,
yearly household income, and willingness for callback.
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, November 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' 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.