DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03846.v1
title: ABC News/Washington Post Poll, June 1994
title: Version 1

description: This poll, conducted June 23-26, 1994, is part of a 
 continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on a 
 range of political and social issues. Respondents were asked to give 
 their opinions of President Bill Clinton and his handling of the 
 presidency, the economy, foreign affairs, health care, and the 
 welfare system. Views were sought on the most important issues facing 
 the country, the condition of the national economy, whether President 
 Clinton was seeking the right or wrong changes for the country, if he 
 made more mistakes than usual for a president, whether he was a 
 strong and decisive leader, and whether he understood the problems of 
 people like the respondent. Respondents were polled on whether they 
 approved or disapproved of the way President Clinton was handling the 
 situations in North Korea, Haiti, Rwanda, and Bosnia, whether the 
 United States' interests were at stake in these countries, and 
 whether the United States should take action to restore democracy in 
 Haiti and prevent North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons. 
 Questions involving health care asked whether President Clinton's 
 plan was better than the current system, whether President Clinton or 
 Congress should handle health care reform, whether the system should 
 be fixed or changed completely and in what ways, and whether it was 
 more important to guarantee health care for all Americans or to hold 
 down the cost for working people. Opinions were solicited on Congress 
 and how well it was doing its job, how much it accomplished in the 
 past 18 months, what prevented it from accomplishing more, and 
 whether the Democratic or Republican party could be better trusted to 
 deal with the country's main problems. Respondents were asked whether 
 they would likely vote for President Clinton or a Republican nominee 
 in the 1996 presidential election, whether they would vote for a 
 Republican or Democratic candidate in the upcoming United States 
 House of Representatives election, whether they approved or 
 disapproved of the way their own representative was doing his or her 
 job, whether they would vote to re-elect him or her, whether they 
 felt more inclined to vote for incumbents or challengers for public 
 office, and whether they favored or opposed term limits for 
 representatives. A series of questions addressed whether respondents 
 considered themselves professional sports fans, whether they watched 
 or planned to watch the world cup soccer games, and whether they 
 thought they might ever be soccer fans. Other topics addressed 
 whether respondents had ever heard of the religious right, whether 
 they held favorable or unfavorable impressions of this group, whether 
 they considered themselves a member of the religious right, whether 
 homosexual relations should be legal or illegal, whether it was 
 morally wrong, whether homosexuality was a choice, and whether 
 homosexuals should have equal rights. Background variables include 
 age, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status, education, 
 religion, religiosity, employment status, household income, social 
 class, subjective size of community, labor union membership, 
 political orientation, political party affiliation, whether the 
 respondent was registered to vote, whether he or she voted in the 
 1992 presidential election, and if so, for whom (Democrat Bill 
 Clinton, Republican George H.W. Bush, or Independent candidate Ross 
Perot).
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 Poll, June 1994
description: Persons aged 18 and over living in households with 
telephones in the contiguous 48 United States.
description: (1) Additional information about sampling, 
 interviewing, weighting, and sampling error may be found in the 
 codebook. (2) 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. (3) 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 Web 
site.