DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04490.v1
title: CBS News/New York Times Women's Health Poll, May 1997
title: Version 1

description: This special topic poll, fielded May 19-22, 1997, 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 data collection was men's and women's health
 issues. Respondents were asked about health-related topics such as
 what they thought was the leading cause of death for women, the
 perceived differences in men's and women's health and their
 interactions with their doctors, what they thought were the most
 serious diseases or medical problems facing the country, and whether
 they thought the federal government spends more money researching
 health problems as they relate to men or more money researching health
 problems as they relate to women. Female respondents were polled on
 whether a doctor had ever discussed mammograms with them, whether they
 ever had a mammogram, how trustworthy, safe, and painful mammograms
 were, at which age women should begin getting mammograms, and how
 often they conducted breast self-examinations. All respondents were
 asked whether they tried alternative medicine, whether they had
 considered trying alternative medicine, and whether they would choose
 alternative medicine instead of traditional medicine. A series of
 questions were asked about the type of interactions respondents had
 with their doctors such as whether respondents felt intimidated by
 their doctors, how comfortable respondents felt asking their doctors a
 lot of questions, whether respondents thought their doctors spoke down
 to them, and whether respondents usually call their doctors by their
 first name. Respondent's views were also sought on other topics such
 as the respondent's state of health, menopause, and hormone
 replacement therapy. Demographic variables included sex, age, race,
 education level, employment status, presence of children and teenagers
 in the household, household income, marital status, political party
 affiliation, political philosophy, type of residential area (e.g.,
urban or rural), and religious preference.
description: The data contains weight variables that should be used for
analysis.
description: Stratified random digit dialing. 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 Women's Health Poll, May 1997
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over
having a telephone at home.
description: telephone interview(1) ICPSR created a unique sequential record
 identifier variable named CASEID. (2) The data and documentation for
 this study were acquired from the
 Roper Center for Public
 Opinion Research. (3) The variables AREA_CODE and EXCH_CODE were
 recoded for confidentiality. (4) Value labels for unknown codes were
 added in variables Q8, Q10, Q15 and Q77. (5) The original data file
 contained three records per case and was reformatted into a data file
 with one record per case. (6) The data available for download are not
weighted, and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis.