DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03235
title: CBS News Monthly Poll #4, November 2000
title: Archival Version

description: This special topic poll is part of a continuing series of
monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and a
range of other political and social issues. The study was conducted in
part to assess respondents' interest in and opinions about the 2002
elections in the state of New York. Residents of that state were asked
to give their opinions of Governor George Pataki and his handling of the
governorship, the economy of New York State, his response to the attacks
on the World Trade Center, and his participation in the recovery efforts
following the terrorist attacks, as well as their views of Senators
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer, state comptroller H. Carl
McCall, and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Those queried were
asked whether they intended to vote in the November 5, 2002, elections.
Respondents were asked for whom they would vote if the election for
governor were held that day, given a choice between George Pataki
(Republican Party), H. Carl McCall (Democratic Party), and Tom Golisano
(Independent Party). Respondents were asked which candidate cared more
about the needs of people like the respondent, residents of New York
City, residents of the suburbs, and residents of upstate New York.
Those queried were asked to specify which candidate would be more likely
to raise taxes, improve the state of the New York economy, help all
people of New York, and help only special interest groups. Respondents
were also asked if Pataki and McCall were spending more time during the
campaign attacking each other or explaining what they would do if
elected. Respondents were asked to consider whether Pataki had made
progress in the following areas during his eight years in office:
improving public school education, reducing New York State's taxes,
improving the state's economy, creating jobs in New York State,
protecting the environment, and reducing the state's debt. They were
asked for whom they would vote if the election for state comptroller
were held that day, given a choice between John Faso (Republican Party)
and Alan Hevesi (Democratic Party). Likely voters were asked whether a
candidate's stance on keeping open the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant,
located in Westchester, New York, would influence their vote. Additional
questions probed respondent views on the Rockefeller laws requiring
mandatory sentences for drug offenses, environmental protection, the
quality of New York State public schools, the influence of Blacks and
Catholics in how the state of New York was run, whether employees who
worked in New York City and lived elsewhere should be charged a commuter
tax, whether state financial aid to New York City was adequate, and the
preferred solution to the state's budget concerns. Those queried were
asked for their views on Bloomberg's tenure as mayor, specifically his
record on crime compared to that of his predecessor Rudolph Giuliani.
Background information on respondents includes age, gender, political
party, political orientation, voter registration and participation
history, education, religion, marital status, Hispanic descent, race,
years in community, household income, and whether they watched or
listened to the October 13, 2000, gubernatorial debate.
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 #4, November 2000
description: Adult population of the state of New York aged 18 and over
having a telephone at home.
description: 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.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.