DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03347.v3
title: CBS News California State Poll, July 2001
title: Version 3

description: This special topic poll, conducted on July 16-17, 2001,
assessed California residents' opinions on a variety of issues,
including George W. Bush's performance as president, energy shortages
and conservation, and the investigation into congressional intern
Chandra Levy's disappearance. Respondents gave approval ratings of
George W. Bush as president, Gray Davis as governor of California, and
Gary Condit as United States Representative. Regarding recent energy
shortages, respondents stated whether the government should give
priority to increasing production of fuels or to encouraging energy
conservation. They were asked to assign blame for the California
energy shortages and to indicate whether they thought there was a real
energy shortage or whether it was a ploy. Respondents gave their
opinion on how President Bush and Governor Davis were handling the
California energy shortage and commented on when they thought the
energy problems would be over, whether they had cut back on their use
of electricity, and if so, how. Respondents stated whether they
believed public officials should be held to a higher standard in their
personal lives, how closely they had been following the news about the
disappearance of Chandra Levy, and whether they thought the situation
had interfered with Representative Condit's job performance. They were
asked whether they were registered to vote, whether they voted for
Gary Condit in 2000, and whether they would vote to re-elect
Condit. Respondents gave their opinions on whether Condit should
resign from office, how much his moral values mattered to respondents
in evaluating his job performance, whether Condit had hurt the
investigation into Levy's disappearance, whether he had told the
police everything, and whether respondents minded that Condit had
misled the public about his relationship with Levy. In addition,
respondents expressed their views on whether Condit asked Anne Marie
Smith to lie about their relationship, whether Condit had anything to
do with Levy's disappearance, whether the news media had acted
responsibly in coverage of Levy's disappearance, and what proportion
of Congress respondents believed had extramarital affairs. Background
information on respondents includes gender, age, race, income,
political leanings, religion, marital status, and education.
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 California State Poll, July 2001
description: Adult population of the state of California aged 18 and
over having telephones at home.
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 Web
site.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.