DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03703.v3
title: CBS News/New York Times New York City Poll, August 2002
title: Version 3

description: This special topic poll assessed respondents' opinions on
the long-range view for New York City, Michael Bloomberg and his
performance as mayor of New York City, and the recovery efforts
following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Residents
of New York City were asked to give their opinions of President George
W. Bush and his handling of the presidency, their biggest concern
about living in New York City, their confidence in the economic
recovery of the city, the likelihood of another terrorist attack on
the United States, the threat level of another terrorist attack in New
York City as opposed to other big cities, and their confidence in the
ability of the United States government to capture Osama bin
Laden. Respondents also described their personal images of New York
City, indicated how likely they were to carry a cellular phone, and
specified the frequency of their air travel before and after the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. A series of questions focused
on Arab Americans, Muslims, and immigrants from the Middle East in the
United States, security at New York City airports, bridges, and
tunnels, and New York City's preparedness for dealing with a
biological or chemical attack. Those queried also presented their
views on the impact of the events of September 11, 2001, on their
everyday lives, personal economy, and health, what should be done at
the site of the World Trade Center in addition to a memorial, and
government-issued warnings about possible terrorist attacks on
Americans abroad and in the United States. Background information on
respondents includes age, gender, voting status, whether they knew any
Arab immigrants, borough of residence, religion, marital status,
political affiliation, education, race, and income.
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 York Times New York City Poll, August 2002
description: Adult population of New York City 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
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reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how
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site.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.