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Appendix B: Methodological Notes About the Public Opinion Data
Appendix B: Methodological Notes About the Public Opinion Data
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B Methodological Notes About the Public Opinion Data RESEARCH ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR NAME ABBREVIATIONS ANES American National Election Studies AP Associated Press AP/Ipsos Ipsos Associated Press Polls CBS CBS News Poll CBS/NYT CBS News/New York Times Poll Gallup The Gallup Organization GSS National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey HI Harris Interactive LSAY Longitudinal Study of American Youth NBC/AP NBC News/Associated Press Poll NBC/WSJ NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll NSF Surveys of Public Attitudes National Science Foundation Surveys of Public Attitudes Toward and U nderstanding of Science and Technology ORC ORC Macro Pew Pew Research Center for People and the Press SURVEY METHODS AND QUESTION WORDING The survey questions referred to in Chapter 3 are listed in this section by topic and in the order in which they appear in the chapter. Unless otherwise noted, the data cited are available online from one or more of the following sources: the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan, the Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina and the Pew Research Center.
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A minimal pattern of news consumption was defined as doing any one of the following: reading a newspaper in print or online "a few times a week" or "everyday"; reading a news magazine "regularly, that is most issues"; reading a science magazine "regularly, that is most issues"; reading a health magazine "regularly, that is most issues"; watching network or cable television news three or more days a week; reading news online three or more days a week. The computations in the 1980s did not include the online option for newspapers or online news.
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It could cost the United States $4 billion a year for the next few years to finally put a man on the moon and to explore other planets and outer space. All in all, do you feel the space program is worth spending that amount of money or do you feel it isn't worth it?
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Telephone interview, n=1,000. Version 1: As you may have heard, the United States is considering expanding the space program by building a permanent space station on the Moon with a plan to eventually send astronauts to Mars.
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In light of the space shuttle accident last February, in which seven astronauts were killed, do you think the United States should or should not continue to send humans into space? NASA's Role, International Collaboration, and Commercial Firms Pew 6/11.
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In general, do you think the US (United States) should rely more on the government or more on private companies to run the country's manned space missions in the future?
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Data from Gallup Organization report, Public Opinion Regarding America's Space Program, submitted to the Space Foundation. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements: America's space program helps give America the scientific and technological edge it needs to compete with other nations in the international marketplace.
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