DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04619
title: CBS News Monthly Poll #1, June 2006
title: Archival Version

description: This poll, conducted June 10-11, 2006, 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.
Respondents were asked whether they approved of the way President
George W. Bush was handling the presidency, the economy, immigration
and the situation in Iraq. Views were sought on whether respondents
approved of the way the United States Congress was handling its job,
whether things in the country were going in the right direction, and
the most important problem the country was facing. Respondents were
asked to rate the condition of the national economy and whether they
thought the economy was improving. Opinions were collected on whether
respondents considered Iran a threat to the United States to an extent
that required military action, whether respondents thought the United
states did the right thing in taking military action against Iraq,
whether the war with Iraq was worth the loss of life and other costs,
whether they thought the United States' efforts to bring stability and
order to Iraq were going well, and whether United States troops should
stay in Iraq as long as it would be needed to make it a stable
democracy. A series of questions asked whether the war with Iraq was
a part of the war on terrorism, whether the United States was winning
the war on terrorism, and the extent of the impact of the recent
killing of al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi by the United States
military. Additional topics addressed whether respondents thought gay
couples should be allowed to marry or form civil unions, and how often
household members watched network news programs. Demographic
information includes voter registration status and participation
history, political party affiliation, political philosophy, marital
status, sex, religious preference, education level, age, household
income, race, whether respondents had any children under the age of
18, and the presence of household members between the ages of 13 and
24.
description: The data contain weights that should be used for analysis.
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 #1, June 2006
description: Persons aged 18 and over living in households with
telephones in the contiguous 48 United States.
description: telephone interviewThe data available for download are not weighted,
and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis.The
CASEID variable was reformatted in order to make it a unique
identifier.The value label for code 38 in variable Q3 was assumed
to be outdated and was changed to refer to the president in office at
the time of the survey.Truncated value labels in Q3 and EDUC were corrected.