DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04520.v1
title: ABC News/Washington Post Hurricane Follow-Up Poll, September 2005
title: Version 1

description: This special topic poll, conducted September 9-11, 2005, 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. The focus of this poll was to ascertain the feelings and
 opinions of respondents surveyed about Hurricane Katrina and the
 federal government's response to the events leading up to and after
 the hurricane. This poll, surveying a different sample of respondents,
 is a follow-up to a post-hurricane Katrina poll (ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON
 POST HURRICANE KATRINA POLL, SEPTEMBER 2005 [ICPSR 4519]) conducted
 earlier in the same month. Respondents were queried on the federal
 government's overall emergency preparedness plan, as well as the
 government's preparedness and response efforts during Hurricane
 Katrina in regard to delivering food, water, and medical help,
 recovering and identifying those who lost their lives, dealing with
 the oil supply and rising gasoline prices, evacuating and resettling
 people who had lost their homes, and clearing and repairing the
 hurricane and flood damage. A series of additional questions dealt
 with how the government should pay for the hurricane relief effort,
 whether the government's lack of preparedness in New Orleans was
 racially or socio-economically driven, and the call by Congress for a
 full-scale congressional investigation of the government's Hurricane
 Katrina preparedness and response efforts. Respondents were also asked
 whether they approved of the way George W. Bush was handling the
 presidency, the economy, the situation in Iraq, and the United States
 campaign on terrorism. Demographic variables include race, gender,
 age, level of education, employment status, income, political party
affiliation, political philosophy, and religious affiliation.
description: The data contain a weight variable (WEIGHT) that should be
 used in analyzing the data. The data were weighted using demographic
 information from the Census to adjust for sampling and nonsampling
 deviations from population values. Respondents customarily were
 classified into 1 of 48 cells based on age, race, sex and education.
 Weights were assigned so the proportion in each of these 48 cells
 matched the actual population proportion according to the Census
Bureau's most recent Current Population Survey.
description: Households were selected by random-digit dialing. Within
 households, the respondent selected was the adult living in the
 household who last had a birthday and who was home at the time of
the interview.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: ABC News/Washington Post Hurricane Follow-Up Poll, September 2005
description: Persons aged 18 and over living in households with
telephones in the contiguous 48 United States.
description: telephone interview(1) The data available for download are not weighted
 and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis. The data
 available via online data analysis have been weighted. (2) Additional
 information about sampling, interviewing, and sampling error may be
 found in the codebook. (3) Original reports using these data may be
 found via the ABC News
 Polling Unit Web site and via the
 
Washington Post Opinion Surveys and Polls Web site.