DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03461.v2
title: CBS News/New York Times Call-Back Poll, January 2002
title: Version 2

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 is a call-back of the January 21-24, 2002, cohort from CBS NEWS/NEW YORK TIMES MONTHLY POLL #3, JANUARY 2002 (ICPSR 3460), and was conducted to assess respondent views following President George W. Bush's State of the Union address delivered earlier that evening. Respondents were asked whether they listened to the president's speech and were then asked a series of questions about the speech. Topics covered whether they approved of the proposals, whether the president would be able to accomplish his goals, whether the war on terrorism or the economy was a more important issue, whether the government would be able to afford all of Bush's proposals, whether the proposed tax cuts would be good for the economy, what issues the president had failed to mention, and whether he should have further addressed the Enron crisis. Additional topics included whether the president and Congressional Democrats would be able to work together in the coming year and whether another terrorist attack was likely in the next few months. Background information on respondents includes age, gender, marital status, political party, political orientation, children in household, religion, education, race, Hispanic origin, and household income.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Created variable labels and/or value labels..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS1: Dataset
description: CBS News/New York Times Poll Series
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.
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over having telephones at home.
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]).