DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04655.v1
title: ABC News/Good Housekeeping Mother's Day Poll, January 2006
title: Version 1

description: This special topic poll, conducted January 30-February 2,
 2006, is part of a continuing series of monthly polls that solicit
 public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and
 social issues. The focus of this data collection was on respondents'
 experiences as mothers. Female respondents with children under the age
 of 18 were asked how well they felt they were doing as mothers, how
 much each worried about not being as good a mother as she would like
 to be, and the quality of her relationships with her children and with
 her own mother. The poll asked how often the respondent asked her
 mother for advice, whether her mother ever gave her unsolicited
 parenting advice, and whether she found this advice helpful or
 annoying. A series of questions asked respondents to compare their own
 parenting styles with that of their mothers in areas such as
 discipline and parental involvement, and respondents gave their
 opinions on whether being a mother was harder or easier compared to
 when they were children. Additionally, respondents were asked whether
 they worked outside the home, whether they considered their work to be
 a career or just a job, who had the main child care responsibilities
 in their households, whether their own mothers had worked outside the
 home when they were children, and the number of children in their
 families when they were growing up. Demographic variables include age,
 race, marital status, household income, employment status, education
level, and number and ages of children in the household.
description: The data contain a weight variable (WEIGHT) that should be
 used in analyzing the data. The data were weighted using demographic
 information from the Census to adjust for sampling and nonsampling
 deviations from population values. Respondents customarily were
 classified into one of 48 cells based on age, race, sex, and
 education. Weights were assigned so the proportion in each of these
 48 cells matched the actual population proportion according to the
Census Bureau's most recent Current Population Survey.
description: Households were selected by random-digit dialing. Within
 households, the respondent selected was the adult woman in the
 household who had children under 18 living there and who was home at
the time of the interview.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: ABC News/Good Housekeeping Mother's Day Poll, January 2006
description: Women aged 18 and over living in households with
telephones in the contiguous 48 United States.
description: telephone interview(1) The data available for download are not weighted
 and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis. (2) Original
 reports using these data may be found via the
 ABC News Web site.
 (3) System missing values were recoded to -1. (4) The FIPS variable
 was recoded for confidentiality. (5) According to the data collection
 instrument, code 3 in the variable Q909 also included respondents who
 answered that they had attended a technical school. (6) Variable
 Q910YY contains the ages of the children of respondents who stated
 that they had one child in variable Q910X, while variables Q910Y_1
 through Q910Y_7 contain the ages of the children of respondents who
 had stated that they had more than one child. (7) The CASEID variable
was created for use with online analysis.