ABC News Poll, Religion and Politics, 2004

DOI

10.17605/OSF.IO/JTMWR

Citation

Langer, G. E. (2020, May 5). ABC News Poll, Religion and Politics, 2004.

Summary

In this May 2004 ABC News/Washington Post poll, a random national sample of 1,005 Americans were asked to give their views on the relationship between religion and politics. Questions were also asked concerning the 2004 election. Demographic variables include: Gender, age, race, income, religion 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: 1005
Variables: 117
Weight Variable: WEIGHT

Data Collection

May 20-23, 2004

Funded By

ABC News/Washington Post

Collection Procedures

This survey was conducted by TNS Intersearch of Horsham, Pa., for ABC News. Telephone interviews were done with a random national sample of 1,005 adults.

Sampling Procedures

As described on the Methodology page of the ABC News website, "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. ..."

According to the Methodology page of the ABC News website, "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."

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, see https://abcnews.go.com/images/pdf/955a4ReligionPolitics.pdf