DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03234.v3
title: CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #3, November 2000
title: Version 3

description: This poll, conducted November 2-5, 2000, is part of a
continuing series of surveys that solicit public opinion on the
presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. The
survey was conducted to assess respondents' interest in and opinions
about the upcoming 2000 presidential election. Those polled were asked
whether they approved of the Clinton presidency and whether they had a
favorable impression of President Clinton. They were also asked if
they had voted for Senator Bob Dole, President Clinton, or Ross Perot
in the 1996 presidential election. Respondents were queried about the
amount of attention they were paying to the 2000 presidential
campaign, if they intended to vote in that election, if the 2000
presidential election were held that day, whether they would vote for
Vice President Al Gore, Texas Governor George W. Bush, conservative
commentator Pat Buchanan, or consumer advocate Ralph Nader, and which
candidate they expected would win. Those polled were asked if they had
a favorable impression of Bush and Gore and which candidate they
thought was better prepared for the presidency. Respondents were
asked whether Bush or Gore would be better able to deal with an
international crisis, sustain the current economy, preserve Social
Security, and improve education, and which of them would appoint
Supreme Court justices who would vote to keep abortion legal.
Additional questions included whether respondents belonged to labor
unions, whether they were aware of Bush's driving under the influence
(DUI) arrest in 1976, and if that arrest changed the way they would
vote in the 2000 presidential election. Background information on
respondents includes age, sex, political party, political orientation,
voter registration and voting participation history, religion, marital
status, children in household, education, race, Hispanic descent,
years in community, 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: CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #3, November 2000
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over
having a telephone 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
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.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.