Details

Related name

• ABC News [Browse]
• Washington Post Company [Browse]
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

• ABC News/Washington Post poll series [More in this series]
• ICPSR (Series) ; 22162. [More in this series]
• ICPSR ; 22162

Restrictions note

Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

This poll, conducted October 5-8, 2006, 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 regarding President George W. Bush's and the United States Congress' handling of the United States campaign against terrorism, of the economy, and of the war in Iraq. Respondents gave their opinions on the upcoming congressional elections, the issues that were the most important to them, and the performance of Democrats and Republicans in Congress, particularly on issues such as the economy, immigration, and health care. Respondents were further asked for their opinions on ethics in Congress, including the Mark Foley scandal. Additional questions addressed the war in Iraq, gas prices, and gun control. Demographic variables include sex, age, race, education level, household income, political party affiliation, political philosophy, voter registration status and participation history, religious preference, whether respondents considered themselves to be born-again Christians, and military service and union membership in the household.

Notes

• Codebook available in print and electronic format.
• Title from title screen (viewed on January 13, 2010).

Type of data

Extent of collection: 1 data file + machine-readable documentation (PDF).

Time and place of event

• Date of collection: 2006-10-05--2006-10-08.
• Time period: 2006-10.

Geographic coverage

Geographic coverage: United States.

System details

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Extent of processing: 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. Standardized missing values. Created online analysis version with question text. Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables. Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Case file characteristics

Weight: 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 1 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.

Methodology note

• Mode of data collection: telephone interview.
• Sample: 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.
• Universe: persons aged 18 and over living in households with telephones in the contiguous 48 United States.

Cite as

ABC News, and The Washington Post. ABC News/Washington Post Monthly Poll, October 2006 [Computer file]. ICPSR22162-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-12-09.

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