WABC-TV/New York Daily News New York city poll, May 1985
By: principal investigators, WABC-TV, New York Daily News
Series: ICPSR -- 8565; ICPSR (Series) -- 8565
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Public opinion; Police; Water-supply; New York Yankees (Baseball team)
Other titles: Daily news (New York, N.Y. : 1920)
Description: In this survey respondents were queried on several topics of current interest in New York City. Respondents were asked about the Yankees baseball team and owner George Steinbrenner's handling of managers Yogi Berra and Billy Martin. Each respondent was asked to rate the performance of New York City police officers and Commissioner Benjamin Ward and to comment on reports of police officers roughing up and torturing suspects. Respondents also were asked if they knew of the water shortage and were taking measures to reduce water use.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: May 1985. Data collected: May 1985.

Telephone interviews.

Survey data.

New York city.

Card image data format. For reasons of confidentiality, respondents' phone numbers have been replaced with blanks.

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 501 ; variable count: approx. 18 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: 1.

Households were selected by random digit dialing.

Universe: The population of New York City, aged 18 and over.