DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03273
title: CBS News Monthly Poll, January 2001
title: Archival Version

description: This poll, conducted January 15-17, 2001, is part of a
 continuing series of surveys that solicit public opinion on the
 presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. The
 survey examined respondents' views about George W. Bush as president:
 what kind of president Bush would be, what worried them about Bush,
 and whether he would bring together or divide different groups of
 Americans, as well as whether he would be able to deal wisely with an
 international crisis, work with members of both parties, improve
 education, reduce costs of prescription drug coverage for seniors, cut
 taxes, strengthen and reform Social Security, and improve the
 economy. Respondents were asked whether they participated in the last
 presidential election on November 7, 2000, and whom they voted
 for. They also gave their opinions of President-elect George W. Bush
 and his wife Laura Bush, Vice President-elect Dick Cheney, President
 Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vice President Al
 Gore, and Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft. Those polled
 expressed their views on whether Bush and Clinton could both be
 trusted to keep their word as president, whether they shared the same
 moral values as most Americans, and whether they said what they
 believed or what people wanted to hear. Other questions examined
 respondents' opinions on the most important problems for the
 government, the national economy and the stock market, abortion,
 taxes, tax-funded vouchers for children's education, mandatory testing
 of students in public schools, and federal funding. Respondents were
 asked whether they had stock market investments, whether they
 considered themselves part of the conservative Christian political
 movement, whether they approved of the cabinet appointments Bush had
 made, and whether they trusted federal government. The survey also
 queried respondents on the legitimacy of the election, the effects of
 the presidential election controversy on American democracy, and
 partisanship in Congress. Other questions concentrated on the use of
 computers and the Internet, including whether respondents had access
 to a computer and to the Internet, and if so where, and if they had an
 e-mail address. Background information on respondents includes age,
 gender, education, race/ethnic identity, voter registration, political
 party affiliation, political orientation, marital status, number of
children in the household, and household 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 Monthly Poll, January 2001
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over
having telephones at home.
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