DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03375.v3
title: New York Times New Jersey State Poll, October 2001
title: Version 3

description: This special topic poll was designed to assess respondents'
interest in and opinions about the 2001 election campaign for New
Jersey governor and to gauge respondents' reactions to the September
11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York
City. Residents of the state of New Jersey were asked to give their
opinions of candidates Jim McGreevey (Democrat) and Bret Schundler
(Republican), as well as their opinions of President George W. Bush,
New Jersey acting governor Donald DiFrancesco, New Jersey senators Jon
Corzine and Robert Torricelli, and former New Jersey governor Christie
Whitman. Respondents were also queried about their readiness to vote
in the upcoming election, whom they were going to vote for, and who,
in their opinion, would become governor. Respondents answered a set of
questions comparing McGreevey and Schundler as gubernatorial
candidates in terms of their experience, interest in people like
themselves, integrity, temperament, leadership qualities, and
political philosophy, as well as who would deal better with the
economy, property taxes, crime, and education in New Jersey. The
survey also elicited respondents' feelings about the recent terrorist
attacks. Respondents were asked whether their daily routine had
returned to normal, whether they were personally concerned about
terrorist attacks in their community and/or another terrorist attack
against New York City, whether they had experienced negative feelings
toward Arab Americans, Muslims, and/or immigrants from the Middle
East, whether anyone close to them was missing, injured, or killed in
the attacks, whether they had experienced job and/or financial loss as
a result of the attacks, and whether they were concerned about
possible exposure to anthrax. Additional questions probed respondents'
views on issues such as abortion, racial profiling, school vouchers,
automobile insurance deregulation, laws restricting the sale of
handguns, and how to balance the budget in New Jersey. Background
information on respondents includes age, gender, political party,
political orientation, voter registration and participation history,
employment status, marital status, religion, education, race, Hispanic
descent, children in household, whether children attended private or
public school, gun ownership, automobile ownership, urban vs. rural
residence, years at current residence, and household 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: New York Times New Jersey State Poll, October 2001
description: Adult population of the state of New Jersey aged 18 and
over having telephones 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.