DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03700.v3
title: CBS News/New York Times Monthly Poll #2, July 2002
title: Version 3

description: This poll 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, foreign policy, the economy, and the situation between
Israel and the Palestinians, as well as their views on the single most
important problem for the president and Congress to address in the
coming year. Respondents also expressed their views on Congress and
the federal government, big business influence on George W. Bush, the
seriousness of corporate accounting scandals for the nation's economy,
and big business contribution to communities and the environment.
Respondents gave their opinions of John Ashcroft and Dick Cheney, as
well as their views on reports about companies accused of fraudulent
accounting practices, George W. Bush's proposals for reforming
corporate accounting practices, the frequency of white-collar crime in
American business, insider trading in the stock market, George
W. Bush's past business dealings with Harken Energy, and Dick Cheney's
past business dealings as the chief executive of Halliburton Company.
Respondents also answered a set of questions regarding the
establishment of a Palestinian homeland in the West Bank and Gaza, the
Republican party, the Democratic party, and the health care system in
the United States. Respondents were asked to express their opinions
about the ability of the United States government to capture Osama Bin
Laden and likelihood of another terrorist attack in the United
States. In addition, those queried were asked a series of questions
regarding their personal investments. Background information includes
respondents' political affiliation, marital status, number of
household members, religion, education, age, race, income, and
gender.
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 #2, July 2002
description: Adult population of the United States aged 18 and over
having telephones at home.
description: 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.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.