DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02921
title: CBS News New Hampshire Primary Call-Back Poll, January 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 on a
 range of other political and social issues. This survey, fielded
 January 25-26, 2000, was a call-back of the January 15-17, 2000,
 cohort from CBS NEWS NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY POLL #1, JANUARY 2000
 (ICPSR 2919), and was conducted to assess respondent views on the
 upcoming presidential election and New Hampshire
 primaries. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of President
 Bill Clinton and his handling of the presidency as well as their
 opinions of New Hampshire governor Jeanne Shaheen and her handling of
 the state. Those polled were asked whether they intended to vote in
 the New Hampshire presidential primaries to be held February 1, 2000,
 and what their opinions were of Democratic candidates Vice President
 Al Gore and former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley, and Republican
 candidates Texas governor George W. Bush, Arizona senator John McCain,
 publisher Steve Forbes, radio talk show host Alan Keyes, Family
 Research Council president Gary Bauer, and Utah senator Orrin
 Hatch. Respondents were queried as to which candidate they intended to
 vote for and which candidate they thought would win, and whether they
 had ever considered voting in the opposing political party's
 primary. Respondents were further asked what they thought about the
 candidates, which candidate could be trusted to keep his word, to
 understand the complicated problems a president has to deal with, and
 to say what he believes, and whether they thought any candidate had
 made a decision as a direct result of a major campaign
 contribution. Additional questions relating to the presidential
 campaigns probed respondent views on the influence of television ads,
 which candidate's health-care plan respondents supported, whether
 respondents had been contacted by a campaign, whether they had seen
 any of the candidates in person, and whether they knew who won the
 Iowa caucuses. Respondents who had shifted their support to a
 different candidate since their original interview were asked why they
 had done so. Their views were also sought on whether Bradley's medical
 condition, arrhythmia, would affect his ability to serve effectively
 as president. Additional survey items focused on abortion, the most
 important problems facing the country, and whether homosexuals should
 be permitted to serve in the military. Background information on
 respondents includes age, gender, political party, political
 orientation, voter registration and participation history, marital
 status, education, religion, race, Hispanic origin, household income,
computer and Internet access, and military service.
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 New Hampshire Primary Call-Back Poll, January 2000
description: Adult population of the state of New Hampshire 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.