CBS News Monthly Poll #1, August 1999 / CBS News.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 2845.

ICPSR ; 2845

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This poll, fielded August 1-3, 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, the United States Congress, First Lady Hillary Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Texas governor George W. Bush, and former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley. Those queried were asked for their views regarding the National Rifle Association (NRA), stricter laws regulating the sale of handguns, and a ban on handgun sales to everyone except law enforcement officials. A series of questions addressed the respondent's knowledge of, access to, and familiarity with computers, specifically the Internet. Areas of investigation included the importance of knowing how to navigate and use the Internet, whether parents knew as much as their children about the Internet, whether the respondent had visited inappropriate sites, and whether the benefits of the Internet outweighed the negative aspects. Respondents with children who used the Internet were asked a series of questions about their child's activities, including at what age the child began using the Internet, whether the parent or the child was most familiar with its capabilities, for what purpose the child used the Internet, whether adult supervision was present when the child was at the computer, and whether the parent had ever installed a Web monitor to watch and/or restrict the child's Internet sessions. An additional question addressed whether federal regulations should be placed on the Internet. On another topic, respondents were asked for their views on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Questions addressed the value of NASA's efforts to land a man on the moon and space exploration program spending in general, whether attempts should be made to se... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02845

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61148003

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