Metadata

CBS News Monthly Poll #2, May 1999

Version
v1
Resource Type
Dataset : survey data
Creator
  • CBS News
Other Title
  • Version 1 (Subtitle)
Collective Title
  • CBS News/New York Times Poll Series
Publication Date
1999-09-15
Language
English
Description

  • Abstract

    This poll, fielded May 11, 1999, 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 Bill Clinton, foreign policy, and the economy, as well as their views on United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) involvement in the Kosovo war between the Albanians and the Serbs. Respondents were asked if they favored or opposed the air strikes, if NATO and the United States should continue to bomb until Serbian troops withdrew from Kosovo, and if the bombing of Kosovo would have a negative impact on the United States' relationship with Russia and with Russian president Boris Yeltsin. Respondents were also asked if they followed news coverage of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, if they thought the United States should apologize for the bombing, and if the bombing would have a negative impact on the United States' relationship with China. Additional questions covered whether respondents believed Social Security benefits would be available when they retired, and if respondents had pension plans or 401K accounts from their employers. Background information on respondents includes age, sex, race, education, religion, political party, political orientation, voter participation history, marital status, age of children in household, family income, and computer access.

  • Methods

    ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Created variable labels and/or value labels..

  • Table of Contents

    Datasets:

    • DS1: Dataset
Collection Mode

  • (1) 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, hardcopy documentation has been converted to machine-readable form and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents' anonymity. (2) The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet.

    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.

Note
2009-07-28 Minor edits were made to the frequency file cover.2009-07-22 As part of an automated retrofit of some studies in the holdings, ICPSR created the full data product suite for this collection. Note that 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 also been added.
Availability
Delivery
This version of the study is no longer available on the web. If you need to acquire this version of the data, you have to contact ICPSR User Support (help@icpsr.umich.edu).
Alternative Identifiers
  • 2786 (Type: ICPSR Study Number)
Relations
  • Is previous version of
    DOI: 10.3886/ICPSR02786.v2

Update Metadata: 2015-08-05 | Issue Number: 3 | Registration Date: 2015-06-30