DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02926.v3
title: CBS News/New York Times New York State Poll #1, February 2000
title: Version 3

description: This special topic poll, fielded February 16-22, 2000, is
part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public
opinion on the presidency and a range of other political and social
issues. The focus of this data collection was on the upcoming
presidential and New York State senatorial campaigns. Residents of New
York State were asked to give their opinions of President Bill
Clinton, New York governor George Pataki, Vice President Al Gore,
Texas governor George W. Bush, former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley,
Arizona senator John McCain, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, New
York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and civil rights activist Al
Sharpton. Respondents were then asked a series of questions on a
hypothetical senatorial contest between Democrat Hillary Rodham
Clinton and Republican Rudolph Giuliani. Respondents were queried as
to whether they were paying attention to the upcoming race, whether
they were likely to vote and, if so, which candidate they were leaning
toward, or if they preferred another candidate to run. Respondents
were asked to compare Clinton and Giuliani in terms of whether they
cared about the needs and problems of people like them, would
represent their interests, would be better at reforming the health
care system, would improve education and reduce crime, would get along
with other members of the Senate, would protect access to legal
abortions, had the right kind of experience, honesty, and integrity,
and would vote as respondents would like on potential Supreme Court
nominations. Respondents were asked to assess Rudolph Giuliani's job
as mayor, including his handling of crime, education, race relations,
and economic development, and Hillary Rodham Clinton's role as First
Lady, and whether she could represent New York State effectively
without having lived in New York State for very long. Regarding the
presidential election, respondents were asked if they were paying
attention to the campaign, whether they were registered with a party,
whether they intended to vote in the upcoming New York State primary
and, if so, for whom. Respondents were also queried regarding whether
they believed campaign contributions influenced candidates, and
whether contributions affected the honesty and trust of candidates. On
a separate matter, respondents with school-aged children were asked
whether they felt comfortable in letting their children engage in
various activities without an accompanying adult, such as riding the
subway, going outside after dark, crossing the street or going to a
nearby store, sleeping over at another child's house, or going to a
movie with friends. Parents were also asked whether their children
traveled to school by themselves, dated, and had a recognized curfew
hour. Other questions asked of respondents covered preferred uses of a
projected federal budget surplus, views on access to abortion
services, and the posting of the Ten Commandments in public
schools. Background information on respondents includes age, sex,
race, education, religion, voter registration and participation
history, political party, political orientation, Hispanic descent,
marital status, age of children in household, and family income.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: CBS News/New York Times New York State Poll #1, February 2000
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. (2) The codebook is provided by ICPSR
as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was
developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF
reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how
to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR
Website.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.