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ABC News Priests and Pedophilia Poll, 2002

DOI

10.17605/OSF.IO/M5S74

Citation

Langer, G. E. (2020, April 13). ABC News Priests and Pedophilia Poll, 2002.

Summary

In this February 2002 ABC News Poll, a random national sample of 1,008 U.S. adults was asked about their views on the Catholic Church priest and child sexual abuse scandal. Questions for respondents included: whether or not the current sexual abuse scandal was a major problem; if the Catholic Church was doing enough to deal with the crisis; the effect of the scandal on the reputation of the Church; the Father John Geoghan abuse case in Boston; and their views on sexual abuse reporting by the church. Demographic variables include: gender, age, race, income, and education.

The ARDA has added six additional variables to the original data set to enhance the users' experience on our site.

Data File

Cases: 1008
Variables: 43
Weight Variable: WEIGHT

Data Collection

February 19-20, 2002

Funded By

ABC News, Gary E. Langer, Director of Polling

Sampling Procedures

As described on the Methodology page of the ABC News Web site, "A sample of households in the continental United States is selected via random digit dialing (RDD) procedures, to ensure that all possible listed and unlisted phone numbers are included with equal probability of selection.

"Sampling then occurs in three stages. First, a systematic random sample of telephone exchanges is selected within each stratum, by taking every nth exchange. ... Next, telephone banks (the first two digits of the four-digit suffix) with more than one residential listing assigned in white pages directories are classified as working banks. ... The third stage of sampling is respondent selection within the household, accomplished by last-birthday selection. Interviewers ask to speak to the household member age 18 or over at home who's had the last birthday. ..."

Please see the Methodology webpage for a full description of the sampling procedures used in this survey.

Principal Investigators

Gary E. Langer, Director of Polling, ABC News

Related Publications

For more information about this survey: https://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/875a1PriestsandPedophilia.pdf

According to the Methodology page of the ABC News Web site, "Final data are weighted using demographic information from the Census to adjust for sampling and nonsampling deviations from population values. Respondents customarily are classified into one of 48 cells based on age, race, sex and education. Weights are assigned so the proportion in each of these 48 cells matches the actual population proportion according to the Census Bureau's most recent Current Population Survey."

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