DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03352.v3
title: CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #2, September 2001
title: Version 3

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, his ability to handle a crisis, and whether he had good
judgment. Respondents were also asked to give their views on the
September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York
City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Questions focused on the
condition of the nation's economy, federal spending on intelligence
agencies, whether the United States should take military action in the
wake of the terrorist attacks, and what the scope of any action should
be, including use of ground troops, cruise missiles, and assassination
attempts. Respondents were also asked about the likelihood that the
terrorists would be caught, the possibility of another attack on the
United States, and who was to blame for the attacks. Other questions
focused on whether the United States should return to business as
usual, whether the government had done enough to make the country more
secure, and how willing respondents were to make sacrifices of time
when flying. Respondents were asked additional questions regarding air
travel in the United States and whether they might, in the wake of the
terrorist attacks, surrender certain personal freedoms, such as having
the government monitor the telephone calls and e-mail of ordinary
Americans. Questions were also posed regarding immigration and the
treatment of Arab Americans. Other topics included respondents'
personal willingness to fly in an airplane, what the government should
do to help the airline industry, personal opinions of New York City,
opinions of the United States economy, whether the United States was
in a recession, spending habits since the terrorist attacks, personal
investments, and the effect the terrorist attacks had on personal
investment. Background information on respondents includes age,
gender, political party affiliation, military service, marital status,
education, race, and 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 York Times Monthly Poll #2, September 2001
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' 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.