DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03348.v3
title: CBS News Call-Back Poll, June 2001
title: Version 3

description: This poll, fielded June 9, 2001, 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. This
survey was a call-back of the May 10-12, 2001, cohort (CBS NEWS
MONTHLY POLL, MAY 2001 [ICPSR 3350]), and was conducted to assess
respondent views regarding the upcoming June 11, 2001, execution of
Timothy McVeigh, who was sentenced to death for bombing the Oklahoma
City federal building. Respondents were queried on how closely they
had been following the upcoming execution and whether they favored the
death penalty for McVeigh. A second set of questions asked
respondents whether they agreed with the Justice Department's decision
to delay the execution until June 11 so McVeigh's lawyers had time to
review newly discovered FBI documents, whether these new documents
would shed any new light on the case, and how often they felt legal
documents in court cases were not turned over to defense lawyers, as
the law requires. Respondents were also asked whether the criminal
justice system had worked the way it should for a death penalty case
and whether any questions about who committed the bombing would remain
after McVeigh's execution. A final set of questions asked respondents
whether it was a good idea for the victims of the Oklahoma City
bombing and their families to be able to watch McVeigh's execution,
whether everyone should be allowed to watch the execution, and whether
the media had spent too much time on the upcoming execution. Opinions
were also solicited on the FBI, the criminal justice system, and
George W. Bush's handling of his job as president. Background
information on respondents includes age, sex, race, education,
religion, voter registration and participation history, political
party, political orientation, Hispanic descent, marital status, age of
children in household, economic investments in the stock market, and
family 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 Call-Back Poll, June 2001
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.