DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03845
title: ABC News Privacy and Harassment Poll, June 1994
title: Archival Version

description: This special topic poll was undertaken to assess 
 respondents' opinions on and concerns about privacy and sexual 
 harassment. Respondents were asked whether computers and technology, 
 companies keeping personal information on their customers, credit 
 agencies recording and disclosing credit information, and access to 
 public government records by third parties constituted invasions of 
 privacy. Respondents were polled on whether they worried about 
 government agencies or private companies like credit card companies 
 misusing their personal information or their personal information 
 being accessed by hackers or by persons monitoring their phone 
 conversations. In addition, respondents were asked whether they had 
 ever been a victim of information misuse, whether they were concerned 
 about the accuracy of public records about them, and whether there 
 should be laws governing third party access to personal information 
 without consumer consent, the inclusion of corrections and criticisms 
 of personal information, notification of the types of information 
 held by an organization about an individual, and access to one's 
 personal information for a minimal fee. Opinions were gathered on 
 President Clinton's handling of relations with North Korea, whether 
 the United Nations should have imposed a trade embargo on North 
 Korea, whether the United States and its allies should have taken 
 military action against North Korea, and whether dealings with North 
 Korea involved interests vital to the United States. Respondents were 
 also queried on whether sexual harassment in the workplace was a 
 problem in the United States, whether respondents themselves had ever 
 been harassed, and if they reported the harassment, the outcomes of 
 reporting the harassment, the reasons one may or may not report 
 sexual harassment, and whether the accuser or accused is more likely 
 to be believed in sexual harassment cases. Views were gathered on 
 whether it is easy or hard to legally file sexual harassment charges, 
 whether sexual harassment may be brought on by one's clothing and/or 
 behavior, whether President Clinton sexually harassed former Arkansas 
 state employee Paula Jones, and whether Supreme Court Justice 
 Clarence Thomas sexually harassed Anita Hill. Demographic information 
 includes age, education, ethnicity, employment status, political 
orientation, and sex.
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 Privacy and Harassment Poll, June 1994
description: Persons aged 18 and over living in households with 
telephones in the contiguous 48 United States.
description: (1) Additional information about sampling, 
 interviewing, weighting, and sampling error may be found in the 
 codebook. (2) 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. (3) 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.