DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04664
title: ABC News Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Poll, August 2006
title: Archival Version

description: This special topic poll, conducted August 14-20, 2006, is
 part of a continuing series of monthly polls that solicit public
 opinion on various political and social issues. The focus of this data
 collection was on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Part
 1, FEMA Counties, contains data from a sample of 501 adults living in
 counties in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama that were designated
 as Hurricane Katrina disaster areas. Part 2, Orleans Parish Including
 Oversamples, contains data on respondents living in Orleans Parish,
 Louisiana, including oversamples of 160 respondents contacted via
 landline telephones, and 120 respondents contacted via cell phones.
 Respondents were asked to rate the recovery efforts of federal, state,
 and local governments with respect to Hurricane Katrina, and how much
 trust and confidence they had in the federal government and the
 Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) ability to respond to
 another disaster. Opinions were collected on whether Hurricane Katrina
 was the result of global climate change or just a severe weather
 event. Information was collected about the damage caused to
 respondents' residence and personal property, as well as the severity
 of the damage, how much of the losses were insured, and whether
 recovery had already occurred. Respondents were asked to rate the
 impact Hurricane Katrina had had on their life, whether they suffered
 a long-term negative impact on their finances, health, and emotional
 well-being, and whether any friends or family members were seriously
 injured or killed as as a result of the hurricane. A series of
 questions asked respondents to rate the job of groups involved with
 assisting recovery, such as the the United States Small Business
 Administration, state relief agencies, and insurance companies. Views
 were sought concerning whether respondents' trust in the government
 and fellow man was affected by the hurricane, how much they worried
 about another hurricane occurring, and how much extra stress was
 created by the possibility of another hurricane. Additional topics
 addressed whether race and poverty affected the recovery effort, and
 whether problems with the relief effort were an indication of racial
 inequality in the United States. Demographic variables include sex,
 age, race, education level, household income, political party
 affiliation, political philosophy, employment status, marital status,
and type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural).
description: The weight variable (WTS) should be used in 
 analyzing the data in Part 1 only. These 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 living in the
 household who last had a birthday and who was home at the time of the
interview.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: FEMA Counties
DS2: Orleans Parish Including Oversamples
description: Persons aged 18 and over living in households with
 landline telephones and cell phones in the counties designated
 as Hurricane Katrina disaster areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, 
and Alabama.
description: telephone interview(1) This poll includes two oversamples, as identified
 in the SAMPTYPE variable. (2) Data on respondents in Part 1 who lived
 in Orleans parish also appear in Part 2 and can be matched using the
 RESPNO variable. (3) The data available for download are not weighted
 and users will need to weight the data prior to analysis. (4) Original
 reports using these data may be found via the
 ABC News Polling
 Unit Web site. (5) System-missing values were recoded to -1. (6)
 The FIPS and ZIP variables were recoded for confidentiality. (7)
 Several codes in the variable CBSA contain diacritical marks. (8)
 Value labels for unknown/missing codes were added in the variables
 CBSATYPE, CSA, USR, REG4, STCODE, and DMA. (9) The CASEID variable was
 created for use with online analysis. (10) The variables PCTBLACK,
 PCTASIAN, PCTHISP, CONGDIST, BLOCKCNT, MSAFLAG, CSA, CBSA, METRODIV,
 ZIP, and NIELSMKT were converted from character to numeric. (11)
 According to the data collection instrument, code 3 in the variable
 Q909 also included respondents who answered that they had attended a
technical school.