Research Catalog

Title

California poll #8004 [electronic resource].

Publication

San Francisco, California : The Field Institute [producer], 1980 ; Storrs, Conn. : Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [distributor], [200-?].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Field Institute http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80071662
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91013290

Summary

Major topics covered: Job performances of: President, Governor; President doing job as well as past Presidents; presidential competency; smoking: light/ heavy, pipe/cigar/cigarette; initiative for smoking-nonsmoking sections in public buildings; vote on this initiative; California water situation: adequacy of facilities and storage today vs. ten years from now, need for new storage and facilities; fairness of current water policies, especially northern vs. southern California; peripheral canal: good/bad idea; estimate of water use by industry, agriculture, residences; need for more dams for water storage; importance of water conservation; if conservation imposed, which users can conserve most with least hardship; Proposition 8, protecting water quality, around peripheral canal; division of California into two states, north and south; experience of cut in government services because of Proposition 13; how would vote on Proposition 13 today; present property taxing method; Proposition 4, the initiative to allow property taxes to be more than 1% for individual communities in special circumstances; abortion for cases of: rape, possibility of deformed baby, Financial problems for family, unmarried mother, whenever a mother desires it; when human life begins; abortion in first three months of pregnancy, four to six months, more than six months; should state pay for abortions for poor; constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion of gun sales through the mail; law required registration of all guns; law requiring license for hand guns; capital punishment; ERA; "Born Again"/"evangelical"; Christian; importance of abortion, gun control, ERA issues on vote for preferred presidential candidate; Presidential/senatorial election trial heat.

Alternative Title

The California poll, July 1980 survey, data file 8004

Subjects

• California > Politics and government > Public opinion
• Politicians > California > Public opinion
• Public opinion > California
• Elections > California > Public opinion

Note

• Data accessible via the Internet on the Data and Statistical Services (DSS) website.
• Title from title screen (viewed on October 30, 2006).
• Roper study no. USCA1980-04.
• Survey firm: The Field Institute.

Access (note)

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

Event (note)

• Field dates: July 18-24, 1980.

Coverage (note)

• Geographic coverage: California, United States.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Documentation (note)

• Accompanied by a printed codebook.

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library