DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04654.v1
title: ABC News/Washington Post Monthly Poll #1, January 2006
title: Version 1

description: This poll, conducted January 5-8, 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 to give their opinions of President
 George W. Bush and his handling of the presidency, ethics in
 government, and the United States campaign against terrorism. Views
 were sought on whether the war in Iraq was worth fighting, and whether
 the federal government was doing enough to protect the rights of
 American citizens and people suspected of involvement in terrorism. A
 series of questions addressed the level of honesty of members of the
 United States Congress, the level of corruption in federal, state, and
 local government, corruption charges against prominent lobbyist Jack
 Abrahmoff, and whether it should be legal for registered lobbyists to
 make campaign contributions to congressional members or candidates,
 give them gifts, or organize fund raisers on their behalf. Additional
 questions asked about upcoming Senate confirmation hearings for
 federal Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito and whether Alito would
 vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized
 abortion. Demographic variables include sex, age, race, education
 level, political party affiliation, political philosophy, religious
 preference, and whether respondents considered themselves to be
born-again Christians.
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 1 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 living in the
 household who last had a birthday and who was home at the time of
the interview.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: ABC News/Washington Post Monthly Poll #1, January 2006
description: Persons 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)
 Additional information about sampling, interviewing, and sampling
 error may be found in the codebook. (3) Original reports using these
 data may be found via the
 ABC News Polling Unit
 Web site and via the
 Washington
 Post Opinion Surveys and Polls Web site. (4) System-missing values
 were recoded to -1. (5) FIPS and ZIP variables were recoded for
 confidentiality. (6) The variables PCTBLACK, PCTASIAN, PCTHISP,
 MSAFLAG, CSA, CBSA, METRODIV, ZIP, and NIELSMKT were converted from
 character to numeric. (7) According to the data collection instrument,
 code 3 in the variable Q909 also included respondents who answered
 that they had attended a technical school. (8) Value labels for
 unknown codes were added in the CSA, METRODIV, and MSA variables. (9)
 Several codes in the variable CBSA contain diacritical marks. (10) The
CASEID variable was created for use with online analysis.