DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03287
title: ABC News/Washington Post Poll, July 2001
title: Archival Version

description: This poll, conducted July 26-30, 2001, is part of a
continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on
the presidency and a range of other social and political issues. This
survey assessed the public's satisfaction with President George
W. Bush, as well as their satisfaction with his political agenda and
motivations. Respondents were asked what they thought of Bush's
ability to handle the nation's economy, the environment, a possible
energy crisis, and stem cell research as compared to the ability of
the Democrats in Congress to handle these issues. Respondents were
also asked whether Bush's administration was influenced too much by
large business corporations, the oil and gas industries, conservative
religious groups, wealthy people, environmental groups, minority
groups, or people like the respondent, and whether the following
applied to Bush: he understands the problems of people like you, he
can be trusted in a crisis, he's doing a good job as
commander-in-chief of the military, he is honest and trustworthy, he
is a strong leader, he's got a vision for the future, he understands
complex issues, he has strong personal character, he has brought
needed change to Washington, and he's done a good job keeping the
economy strong. Opinions were solicited on whether the President or
Congress was more trustworthy in handling the economy, international
affairs, environmental issues, education, the energy situation,
patients' rights in the health care system, Social Security, the
federal budget, campaign finance reform, the cost of prescription
drugs, and the defense and the military budget. Respondents were
queried on whether they would vote for Bush, Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Pat
Buchanan, or someone else, if the 2000 presidential election were held
that day. Additional issues addressed in the poll included
respondent's views of the nation's economy, how they thought the
nation's economy would be affected by the tax cut, whether they
supported stem cell research, if they would support federal funding
for stem cell research, and if they had a favorable impression of Vice
President Dick Cheney, the Republican party, the Democratic party,
Arizona senator John McCain, and former President Ronald
Reagan. Background information on respondents includes political
party, voter registration status, education, type of graduate degree,
age, religion, characteristics of place of residence, marital status,
labor union membership, Hispanic origin, race, combined household
yearly income, and gender.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: ABC News/Washington Post Poll, July 2001
description: The data are provided as an SPSS portable file.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 codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable
Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe
Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software,
such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy
of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.