DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04623.v1
title: New York Times New York City Poll, August 2006
title: Version 1

description: This poll, conducted August 23-29, 2006, is part of a
 continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on
 the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues.
 Residents of New York City were asked for their opinions of the city,
 and whether they approved of the way Michael Bloomberg was handling
 his job as mayor. Views were sought on whether the federal government
 was doing enough to protect New York City and the country from future
 terrorist attacks, whether the city was prepared for another terrorist
 attack, the likelihood of another attack in the next few months, and
 whether the recent arrests of individuals planning attacks on
 airplanes flying from England to the United States represented a major
 terrorist threat to the United States. Respondents were asked how
 often they thought about the events of September 11, 2001, whether
 they were still dealing with changes caused by the attacks on the
 World Trade Center, and whether they knew anyone who was injured or
 killed in the attacks. Several questions asked whether the public was
 told the truth about the air quality in downtown Manhattan in the
 months after the terrorist attacks, whether respondents trusted the
 federal government to tell the truth about possible dangers if another
 terrorist attack occurred, and whether the government should be
 financially responsible for the medical bills of people who
 experienced health problems because of the terrorist attacks.
 Additional questions addressed the redevelopment of the World Trade
 Center site and the proposed Freedom Tower, the United States' war on
 terrorism, the likelihood that Arab Americans, Muslims, and immigrants
 from the Middle East were being singled out unfairly in the United
 States, and how patriotic respondents considered themselves to
 be. Information was also collected on which borough respondents lived
 in, how long they had lived in New York City, and whether they were
 living there at the time of the attacks. Demographic information
 includes sex, age, race, ethnicity, education level, household income,
 marital status, religious preference, political party affiliation, and
political philosophy.
description: The data contain weights that should be used for analysis.
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: New York Times New York City Poll, August 2006
description: Persons aged 18 and over living in households with
telephones in New York City.
description: telephone interview(1) The data available for download are not weighted,
 and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis. (2)
 Interviews were conducted in both English and Spanish, as indicated in
 the variable HISP. Survey questions appear in both languages in the
 codebook. (3) The CASEID variable was reformatted in order to make it
a unique identifier.