DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03849.v1
title: Washington Post Prince George's County Poll, July 1994
title: Version 1

description: This special topic poll, conducted July 15-20, 1994, was
 undertaken to assess respondents' views on the state of affairs in
 Prince George's County, Maryland, and its upcoming county elections.
 Residents were polled on the biggest problems facing the county,
 whether things were going in the right or wrong direction, the quality
 of the public schools, whether the budget for public schools should be
 increased, decreased or maintained, and whether respondents would
 favor or oppose a tax increase if the money benefited the county's
 public schools. Views were sought on the quality of life in Prince
 George's County and whether it had improved, worsened, or stayed the
 same in the past ten years, whether respondents expected it to improve
 in the next ten years, what they liked the most and the least about
 living there, whether they would rather live somewhere else in the
 Washington area, and if so, where. Respondents were asked about the
 status of race relations in Prince George's County, whether it was
 improving, worsening, or staying the same, and how important it was
 that most people in their neighborhood shared their racial
 background. Questions regarding the Black and White populations of
 Prince George's County asked whether each group had too much, too
 little, or the right amount of influence in county politics, whether
 this influence was changing, and whether it would be better for the
 county if the population of these groups increased, decreased, or
 stayed the same. Residents were polled on the likelihood that they
 would vote in the upcoming Democratic primary election, their opinions
 of the candidates for county executive (Wayne Curry, Sue V. Mills,
 Artie Polk, and Beatrice Tignor), which candidate they would vote for,
 how strongly they supported him or her, how often they trusted county
 government to do what was right, and how important it was that the
 next county executive, school superintendent, or police chief elected
 was Black. Respondents also gave their impressions of Maryland
 gubernatorial candidate Parris Glendening, county attorney Robert
 Ostrom, and council member Richard Castaldi. Background variables
 include sex, age, education, religion, ethnicity, marital status,
 household income, number of children in household, political
 orientation, political party affiliation, voter registration and
 participation history, length of residency in Prince George's County,
and previous residence.
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: Washington Post Prince George's County Poll, July 1994
description: Persons aged 18 and over living in households with
telephones in Prince George's County, Maryland.
description: (1) The data file contains suspicious characters in
 records 32, 85, 118, 124, 148, 291, 300, 361, 402, 497, 545, 599, 648,
 650, 685, 840, 848, 878, 890, 912, and 993. To the best of ICPSR's
 knowledge and testing, the suspicious characters should not affect
 analysis. (2) Weight variables with two implied decimal places have
 been included and must be used in any analysis. (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.