WABC-TV/New York Daily News poll, December 1984
By: principal investigators, WABC-TV, New York Daily News
Series: ICPSR -- 8554; ICPSR (Series) -- 8554
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Public opinion; Mayors; Elections; Politics and government; Catholic Church
Other titles: Daily news (New York, N.Y. : 1920)
Description: This survey focuses on the 1985 New York City mayoral race and the Roman Catholic church. Respondents were asked who they would like to see win the 1985 race, how they would rate Ed Koch as mayor, and whether they preferred Koch to other mayoral candidates. Respondents also were asked whether they agreed with a series of statements relating to abortion, birth control, homosexuality, and the Roman Catholic church. Items pertaining to the Catholic church included the respondent's opinions on priests being allowed to marry, women being allowed to become priests, priests, bishops and cardinals staying out of politics, a tax credit for parents who send their children to parochial schools, and Bishop John O'Connor's performance as head of the New York Archdiocese. Demographic characteristics also were recorded.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: December 1984. Data collected: December 1984.

Telephone interviews.

Survey data.

United States.

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

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 855 ; variable count: approx. 25 ; LRECL: 80 ; records per case: 1.

Households were selected by random digit dialing.

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