DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04658
title: ABC News/Stanford University/Time Magazine Environment Poll #1, March 2006
title: Archival Version

description: This special topic poll, conducted March 9-14, 2006, is
 part of a continuing series of monthly polls that solicit public
 opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social
 issues. The focus of this data collection was on environmental
 issues. Respondents rated the condition of the natural environment,
 and identified the most important environmental problem facing the
 world. Those polled were asked whether they approved of how President
 George W. Bush, the United States Congress, and American businesses
 were handling issues involving the natural environment, how much
 President Bush's policies, American businesses, and the American
 public did to help or harm the environment in the past year, and how
 much respondents wanted them to help the natural environment in the
 next year. Several questions asked how important the issue of global
 warming was to respondents, how much they knew about it, how serious a
 problem it was, and how much could be done to prevent future global
 warming and reduce its effects. Additional topics addressed changing
 local and worldwide weather patterns, scientists' assessments of the
 environment and global warming, whether the federal government should
 require companies and individuals to take measures to reduce global
 warming, and what type of vehicle respondents drove. Demographic
 variables include sex, age, race, education level, religious
 preference, household income, political party affiliation, political
 philosophy, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), whether
 respondents had any children or grandchildren, and whether they
considered themselves born-again or evangelical 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 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: 
DS1: ABC News/Stanford University/Time Magazine Environment Poll #1, March 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) Original
 reports using these data may be found via the
 ABC News Web site. (3)
 System-missing values were recoded to -1. (4) The FIPS and ZIP
 variables were recoded for confidentiality. (5) According to the data
 collection instrument, code 3 in the variable Q909 also included
 respondents who answered that they had attended a technical school.
 (6) Several codes in the variable CBSA contain diacritical marks. (7)
 Value labels for unknown/missing codes were added in the MSA,
 METRODIV, CSA, and CBSA variables. (8) The CASEID variable was created
for use with online analysis.