DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03828
title: CBS News Monthly Poll, June 2003
title: Archival Version

description: This poll conducted, June 12-13, 2003, is part of a
continuing series of monthly polls that solicit opinions on political
and social issues. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of
President George W. Bush and his overall job performance, his ability
to do something to establish peace in the Middle East, United States
involvement in Iraq, former President Bill Clinton, and Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton. Questions involving the United States
involvement in Iraq addressed whether removing Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein from power was worth the human and economic costs, whether it
mattered if Saddam Hussein were found, whether the Bush administration
over-, under-, or accurately estimated the number of weapons of mass
destruction present in Iraq, whether the Bush administration
exaggerated the number of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in order
to garner support for military action, whether the Central
Intelligence Agency over-, under-, or accurately estimated the number
of weapons of mass destruction present in Iraq, respondents' level of
confidence that the United States would find weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq, whether it mattered if weapons of mass
destruction were found in Iraq, and whether Iraq was an immediate
threat, a threat but did not require immediate action, or not a
threat. Views were sought on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton from New
York. Respondents were queried on whether they had a favorable or
unfavorable opinion of Senator Clinton, what they liked about her,
what they disliked about her, whether their opinions of Senator
Clinton were more based on their agreement with her political views or
their feelings about her personal life, Senator Clinton's performance
as first lady, her performance as a senator, her performance as a
mother, whether Senator Clinton was a good role model for professional
women, and whether she was a good role model for wives. Respondents
were asked whether they would describe Senator Clinton as possessing
high or average intelligence, whether they felt she had worked hard to
attain her position in life, whether she exhibited more or less
honesty and integrity than most people in public life, whether she
cared about the needs and concerns of the respondents, whether she
showed strong leadership qualities, whether they would have
confidence in Senator Clinton in a crisis situation, and whether she
said what she believed or what people wanted to hear. In addition,
respondents were polled on whether they agreed with Senator Clinton's
political views, regardless of their personal feelings toward her,
whether they read or knew of her most recent book "Living History,"
whether they believed her statements about her reaction to the
relationship between former President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky,
whether Senator Clinton was hiding something the public should know,
whether she would run for president of the United States in 2004 or
2008, whether she should run for president of the United States in
2004 or 2008, and who would run the White House, she or former
President Clinton, if she were elected president. Additional questions
addressed whether respondents considered themselves part of the
conservative Christian political movement, also known as the religious
right, and whether respondents were registered to vote in the
precincts or districts where they resided. Background variables
include age, sex, ethnicity, education, political orientation,
political ideology, marital status, religious orientation, household
income, whether the respondent voted in the 2000 presidential
election, and if so, for whom (Democrat Al Gore, Republican George
W. Bush, Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan, or Green Party candidate
Ralph Nader).
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, June 2003
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over
having a telephone 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.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.